The COVID-19 pandemic has upturned our lives and the celebrations planned throughout 2020 for the 400th anniversary of Marguerite Bourgeoys’s birth.
Yet, is this not the ideal time to stop and think about the future of the planet and of all living beings?
Take part in our new online retreat In the Garden of our Common Home with Marguerite and let us journey together…
In darkness and light, a true mother,
you walk with us.
Amid crashing waves and on dancing beaches,
you hold us up.
Through fearsome forests and meadows blessed
with bird-song, you guide our steps.
With frail health or robust energy, you climb
the hills of our memories,
Never too busy to listen, or sit beside us in
comfortable quiet,
All the while, leading us to Mary’s open,
waiting arms,
All the while, showing us her Son living
within us, transforming us with his
Presence.
Honestly, how many of us would be eager to give allegiance to a leader who rode alone on a donkey down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day? What message would that leader wish to send the electorate about the next four years?
As Jesus entered Jerusalem in what seems to be a triumph, the people are ecstatic as they cry “Hosanna to the Son of David;/Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord; /Hosanna in the highest.” Jesus lived his life among us with great determination and intentionality. As THE prophet and the herald of the reign of God, he chooses to enter on a donkey! AH! But even as a child I realized that a donkey would never have been my choice for a king to come to my Jerusalem.