“Compassion is to look beyond your own pain

to see the pain of others.

— Yasmin Mogahed

“Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

— Dalai Lama

January 21, 2024

Living Compassionately

Are We Prepared to Love as Jesus Does?

God is referred to often as a God of compassion. We read in the Scriptures how Jesus was a man of compassion. We have read many passages about the love of God for us. Jesus came to teach us how to live in this world. He saw, heard, taught, welcomed, healed, reached out, and forgave.

 

Explore God’s compassion, as well as our own, when you join us for Simply Prayer: Living Compassionately at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, February 6. Sister M. Virginelle Makos will guide us as we discuss God’s expectations of us and if we are prepared to love one another as He has loved us.


Simply Prayer: Living Compassionately

10 to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, February 6 | Freewill Offerings Accepted


Attend no matter where you live! This program will be held in person in

St. Francis Center at Monocacy Manor in Bethlehem, Pa., as well as online via Zoom.

Attend in Person

Click here to register.

Join us at 9:30 a.m. for coffee before the 10 a.m. program.

Attend by Zoom

Click here to register.

Afterwards, a link to join the program will be sent to you.

Have Questions?

Contact Lauren Martin

at 610-867-8890 or lmartin@schoolsistersosf.org

Monocacy Manor is located at 395 Bridle Path Road, Bethlehem PA 18017

Rediscovering My Heart

By Sister Barbara DeStefano


A Christian heart is a heart that feels all that there is to feel, without fear or hesitation. It knows that in feeling deeply, one enters into the fullness of what it means to be human and becomes most fully sister or brother to all of humanity.


A Christian heart sees clearly because it rejects all choices that would block vision. All the world is a painting, and the Artist Himself can be seen in the masterpiece if one looks at the whole ... no matter what it asks ... no matter the cost.


A Christian heart is one that is. It becomes all that it feels, so that its sensitivity can call others to feel too ... to feel for their sisters and brothers ... to feel with them. It becomes all that it sees, both the joys and the pains, both the longings and sorrows, so that it can be all things to all people.


A Christian heart in its feeling, in its seeing, in its becoming, indeed in its very being, is a lover and a maker, a lover of peace, a maker of peace, among all of God's people, throughout all of the earth.

We Send Our Blessings for Peace & All Good in the Week Ahead!