A Shift in Gears for 2013

Contemplative Horizon:
New Look, New Focus

It took a year to accomplish but the Redemptoristine Nuns of New York have launched a new website containing a new blog dedicated to all things Redemptoristine. You can subscribe to it just by typing your e-mail address into the box at the right hand side of the page. Explore the rest of the site and its many new features. Add it to your favorites.

The creation of the RedNuns.org Blog allows this blogger to pursue a new editorial policy for publishing to Contemplative Horizon. It will allow pure personal fancy in writing and choice of posts.

Contemplative Horizon was created at the very beginning of blogging in an offort to provide a way for others to share in Redemptoristine contemplative spirituality and the ways of monastic life. Along the way a variety of other topics were also served - needlework, family stories, etc. but things Redemptoristine had to take pride of place. With the advent of a new community website containing a blog  this personal blog can go farther a field.

 

So here we go with a picture of some of my family. Have the kids grown or what? Bejamin is 6 and Nicholas is 9. Kim and Jonathan will celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary in 2013.

L to R: Andrew (#3 son), Jonathan (#1 son),

Benjamin, Kim, Nicholas

Greeting the New Year of 2013



Roman Missal Page Decoration

Created by Brother Max Schmalzl, CSsR

1850 - 1930

HAPPY and BLESSED

NEW YEAR to ALL

on this

Solemnity of the Mother of God

 

 

Illustrations of the various titles for Jesus (Root of Jesse, Morning Star, Key of David, Alpha and Omega) adorn the corners of this piece so rich in detail and buzzing with activity. Some of your image will be blocked but this had to be enlarged as much as possible to show the detail. Fortunately the great work of this modest German Redemptorist Brother is enjoying a renaissance.

 

 

Some changes are coming to this blog with the arrvial of the New Year. Stay tuned!



Redemptoristine Contemplative Christmas

We hope you enjoy a tour of our home all decked out for Christmas. As decorations appeared we all thought, "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas." It was great to be able to say that even though this is not really our home.

Enjoy the slide show and be sure to turn on your speakers.

This free photo slideshow customized with Smilebox

Welcoming the
Christ Child
into our
Fractured World

Most of the people I know - people who genuinely wish to spiritually welcome the newborn Jesus into their lives at Christmas - find themselves struggling to go to a place within, a place free of the demands, the craziness, the media assault, and the violence around us.

 

This poem written by the monk Thomas Merton over 50 years ago offers all of us some encouragement and comfort.

An Advent Song

Into this world, this demented inn,
in which there is absolutely no room
for Him. Christ has come uninvited.

He comes...
to the crisis before breakfast
the unexpected at dinner
in between the cranky toddler
and the exasperating senior citizen

when fatigue blights our day
worry disturbs our night
disappointment saps our strength
defeat destroys our hope...

into this demented inn
Jesus comes
and though uninvited..
stays.

Do check out our new

community website

RedNuns.org

Redemptoristine Nuns

of New York

Announce Their New

Website

at

RedNuns.org

 

 

In 2008 our contemplative monastic community lauched its first website. It was a home grown effort. Last year we began to dream of a new site , one with some bells and whistles, that we allow us to more effectively communicate who we are, our role in the Church, and the goal of our charism which is to become "Living Memories" of Jesus, our Redeemer.

 

 

The new site offers all of the things you are used to plus slide shows, a blog to which you can subscribe, a reading room for access to PDF documents of talks and articles by Redemptoristines as well as translations of the writings of Maria Celeste, and on-line comments option and vocation questionnaire.

 

 

Please visit the site, explore it and linger there.