Experience Making a Difference

Experience Making a Difference

Contemplations on Service & Spirituality

In the Upper Room of our Quarantine – Christine Eberle

In the Upper Room of Our Quarantine My heart goes out to the people in that upper room in the first chapter of Acts. Once upon a time, they had been capable fishermen, efficient tax collectors, competent homemakers, and women of means.  After meeting Jesus and being...

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Solace in a Time of Isolation – Janet Ruffing RSM

Solace in a Time of Isolation The Poet David Whyte writes: “Solace is not an evasion, nor a cure for our suffering, nor a made-up state of mind.  Solace is a direct seeing and participation; a celebration of the beautiful coming and going, appearance and disappearance...

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Now What? – Noreen Manzo

“Now what?” That’s the question I posed rather uneasily to myself in mid-March when the Coronavirus interrupted our lives.  My husband and I had access to a modest family home in Connecticut with a magnificent view of Long Island Sound, so we decided to pack up and...

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Come, Holy Spirit! – Dan Schutte

Dan Schutte welcomes you to IVC's Pentecost Reflection Series. https://youtu.be/YHoX_DJ7WSc https://youtu.be/nhFlfm8cy9w   Dan Schutte is one of the best-known and most influential composers of Catholic music for liturgy in the English-speaking world. In addition...

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