Conversations

Schola Ministries are delighted to share with you Robin Bradley Hansel’s ‘Wisdom of the Labyrinth’ interview with Kathleen. Kathleen speaks to Robin about her life and work, her own labyrinth in Ireland, the home of her parents, and her work on and with Thomas Merton and Thomas Berry. Sr. Deignan also talks about her […]

All of us at Schola wish to acknowledge all who still bear the intimate wound of 9.11’s great wounding – the families and friends of those who perished in the attacks on our city and country. We sincerely pray that this has been a decade of healing for you and your hearts’ profound grief. As […]

I was one of many first responders among the spiritual caregivers who ministered at the Family Assistance Center at Pier 94 in Manhattan for several months to the families and friends of the victims of 9.11. It was a time of unprecedented public, civic love and compassion and generosity… Continue reading at The Huffington Post […]

We have been blessed this week to have Sister Kathleen Deignan, CND, as the presenter for our annual parish mission. Sister Kathleen is a teacher of theology at Iona College, a stellar Merton scholar, a psalmist and accomplished composer, and the newly elected president of the International Thomas Merton Society. Sister Kathleen has focused the […]

Practicing Christians have just concluded their forty days of spiritual renewal, weeks of laboring to transform those habits of mind and heart that ever keep us from living in the likeness of Christ. For those of us who engage the support of a… Continue reading at The Huffington Post →

In the wake of St. Patrick’s Day, I am left wondering about the man who “baptized” my lineage. Not long after our arrival in New York, my mother took me to my first parade: a rite of passage. I was awed, not for the saint, but all those horses! In… Continue reading at The Huffington […]

Strange to be looking out on a frost bound garden this winter evening laboring to compose an interior desert, but that is once again – as for Christians all over the world – the intentional Lenten work. Easily the most… Continue reading at The Huffington Post →

The season comes around again for simple, quiet beginnings. For Christians this is the start of a new year, at least in the soul realm – a time of doing the deep heart’s work of recovering our “original face” before we were born. If one finds their way to what my sister Ann calls “the […]

Some time ago I had the joy of spending a few days of retreat in Thomas Merton’s hermitage at Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky. I could hardly believe I was actually there sitting at his Shaker desk, looking out his window at the very sky he had seen, the trees, the deer and birds. All of […]