Our first newsletter of 2008
Easter Greetings from Mississippi Abbey! And what a rare Lent we have had - entirely in winter. Which in many ways was a great blessing, with the cold and dark drawing us inside ourselves to be silently with Jesus in his time of suffering and death. So now we are enjoying the signs of spring as we celebrate his rising to a new and unimaginable life.
2008 is for us a year of jubilees. For our relatively small community, many years we haven’t a single sister celebrating a jubilee. This year, we have FIVE! We count our anniversary from the date of our first vows. Our Sisters Kathleen and Louise have now been professed 25 years, and Sisters Gail, Carol, and Lillian 50. As our guest space is limited, we can have only one or two sisters’ families at a time. So we will have a couple of celebrations in May for the Silver folks, and then a Big Splash in August for our Golden sisters.
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