With the comfort of evergreens, children's laughter,
bayanihan and good memories — grief and fear giving way to trust — 10 panelists wrote a potpourri of short vignettes in response to this prompt:
Write a personal reflection or prayer that looks forward in hope to 2021.
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is a former Passionist Nun of St. Gabriel's Monastery who served on the leadership team and as novice director. Presently, she is the co-founder — along with Bernadette Bostwick and the late Passionist priest Thomas Berry — of an emerging community, the Sisters of the Earth Community at Green Mountain Monastery in northern Vermont. She has degrees in Christian spirituality and clinical psychology, and she studied and choreographs liturgical dance. The founder of Homecomings: Center for Ecology and Contemplation, she travels around the world giving retreats and programs to religious men and women about the Great Work and the Universe Story.