Author: yaspiritandlife

  Sr. Helen Jean Novy, H.M., Daily Prayer Friday, April 4, 2025 We can be a sign giving grace. Dear Vivifying Spirit, please continue making me in your image so […]

  Sr. Helen Jean Novy, H.M., Daily Prayer Thursday, April 3, 2025 Harsh realities are hard to face but Lent is the time to face hard realities. “All creation groans […]

  Sr. Helen Jean Novy, H.M., Daily Prayer Wednesday, April 2, 2025 Jesus,  it is you who have taught us radical inclusion as you offered welcome embrace to lepers, tax […]

  Sr. Helen Jean Novy, H.M., Daily Prayer Tuesday, April 1, 2025 What a life-giving Lenten practice:  Contribute to the resurrection of Earth by returning to nature and  returning something […]

  Sr. Helen Jean Novy, H.M., Daily Prayer Monday, March 31, 2025 Just as “religion” is not equivalent to God, the finite word “God” does not capture the infinite Mystery […]

  Sr. Helen Jean Novy, H.M., Daily Prayer Sunday, March 30, 2025 Hope “is a state of mind, not a state of the world.”* Our faith depends on the Paschal […]

  Sr. Helen Jean Novy, H.M., Daily Prayer Saturday, March 29, 2025 Jesus declared that welcoming the stranger immigrant is welcoming him. It is not too late to live the […]

  Sr. Helen Jean Novy, H.M., Daily Prayer Friday, March 28, 2025 “. . . enact the script some slender seed contained.”* Marvel at the mystery of spring secretly, silently […]

  Sr. Helen Jean Novy, H.M., Daily Prayer Thursday, March 27, 2025 “Do we tell God what we want God to do or ask God what God wants us to […]

  Sr. Helen Jean Novy, H.M., Daily Prayer Wednesday, March 26, 2025 “The day my mother was buried, the wind swept  our eyes into weeping . . . .”* Let […]