Tidbits to Inspire

Last week I took a delightful vacation with my mom. One way we usually enjoy our time together is to pick out great music and listen to it!

Rest and relaxation is an important part of the creative cycle, just as silence is a crucial part of communication. But while I’ve been relaxing, some of the sisters have been quite busy. Check out the following links for fun, inspiration, and info!

This issue of our Discover Hope newsletter features our Daughters of Saint Paul’s newest album, Your Love Carries Me. The music is really beautiful. I just started listening to it myself, and at the moment my favorite song is Glorious Day. Enjoy these “behind the curtain” stories of the choir sisters, as well as the music clips!

Dr. Richard Spinello, author of PBM’s new book, Understanding Love and Responsibility, was a guest on EWTN’s “At Home with Jim and Joy Pinto” on August 15, 2014. Listen in to his remarkably accessible and cogent “take” on Pope St. John Paul’s Theology of the Body in this downloadable podcast.

One of my favorite Pauline blogs, the Pauline Cooperators blog, has relaunched, and will feature a variety of Paulines who will blog, both religious and lay. Check it out and subscribe if you’ve enjoyed the “Pauline twist” of many of my posts here.

Sr. Margaret Charles Kerry, fsp, has guest blogged a wonderful post on living the New Evangelization at CatholicMom.com. I enjoyed “We Are Gospel: A Living Evangelization” immensely for its Pauline themes of transformation in Christ and how she links Pope Francis’s integrated way of speaking of Baptism and Evangelization with our Pauline spirituality.