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Archive for September, 2008

The past couple of weeks, I’ve grown increasingly preoccupied. A lot is going on in our little community of four sisters, and we’re preparing for many upcoming events at our Toronto Pauline Book & Media Centre. These are just a few:
 

Our one-day storewide sale tomorrow  which is an amazing opportunity to encourage people to take [...]

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One of the reasons why I look for resources on spirituality and the arts is that deep-down doubts about whether I have anything worthwhile to say occasionally surface. Coming to the belief that writing is a sacred call–for me, a “call within” the vocation of being a Daughter of Saint Paul–has allowed me to lean [...]

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Being a writer was a childhood dream, along with becoming a nurse, a painter, and a concert pianist or violinist. But for years, I lacked the confidence not only to share my writing with others, but to even complete a piece. I started writing lots of things, but never finished anything except one story and [...]

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This is another of my favorite quotations from our Founder, Blessed James Alberione, on our vocation of being Catholic media artists:
“Imbue all thought and human knowledge with the Gospel. Don’t speak only about religion, but speak about everything in a Christian way.”
Sometimes we think that we have to write or produce only about specifically religious topics to [...]

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Have you heard of the tragic situation of the Christians in Orissa, in India? Pope Benedict XVI deplored the violence against them two weeks ago, but there has been little response, and no further news.
Sr. Jane has made short online movie with some of the shocking facts. We feel so powerless to help, and [...]

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Every so often, usually when a project nears completion, I sense more keenly the “risk” of exposing what I’ve written to others. This morning, as I begin to revise my newest book, I feel the “danger” of writing, of becoming more visible. This can be a fragile stage on my writing journey because my insecurities about [...]

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Besides my community of the Daughters of Saint Paul, I have found one other place where I have powerfully experienced this sense of the vocation as a Christian media artist. The Act One Program is dedicated to assisting Christians to achieve excellence in their work as filmmakers. Act One has a remarkable approach which, for those [...]

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