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Our latest writing, reflections and events.
Turning and Returning

Turning and Returning

Today is Ash Wednesday And although the words may vary from place to place the phrase I most often hear that lingers within me is…    Turn Away from Self Seeking Behavior (Sin) and  Return to the Gospel… (the Good Road and Sacred Path of God’s ways).   Why...

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Walking Into the Joy of Wisdom

Walking Into the Joy of Wisdom

Photo: Kelley Mooneyham   In this Easter Season, this is for all of our loved ones who have gone before us -And for my friends who are mourning the passing of their dear Mothers. And Wisdom whispered.. Your elders walk before you having journeyed through the...

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A Native Birth

A Native Birth

Sr. SaRa Lee, OCD Carmel of Reno   Wandering and wondering Where do I belong? Why does it seem that every door to acceptance and love slams shut? Don’t they know I’m carrying the Spirit of God within me? Where can I be born Anew.. Again.. Where can that which...

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AWAKENING HOPE

AWAKENING HOPE

Photo: Kelley Mooneyham    So many voices speaking.. competing to capture our attention.. We seem to endlessly seek a voice that speaks deeply to our own.   There was a time when the rhythm and breath  of our life was united with the life force of all...

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Whispers, Buds and Blossoms

Whispers, Buds and Blossoms

Photo: Kelley Mooneyham    Perhaps more than any other year in recent memory, our senses are primed and attuned to the changes in nature announcing the coming of spring. It can feel as if our life depends on the new life that is awakened by shifting winds and...

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Reflection on Lent

Reflection on Lent

Jan Brown, reflecting on the death of her son, a Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan, remembered Kevin: “He was born to do this job. If he could do it all over again and have a choice to happen the way it did or work at McDonald’s and live to be 104? He’d do it all over...

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Breaking Into Silence – Surging Into Prayer

Breaking Into Silence – Surging Into Prayer

Breaking Into Silence Surging Into PrayerPhoto: Kelley Mooneyham      "The heart can think of no devotion greater than being shore to ocean" - Robert Frost     What if a wave had no place to release and let go of the momentum and energy it absorbs...

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Carmel Of Reno Announcement Regarding COVID19

March 17, 2020 Dear Friends, In compliance with the recommendations of Bishop Calvo and our local and national leaders, due to the COVID-19 outbreak we are suspending all public worship services in our chapel until further notice. This includes our weekday and...

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Nevada Women’s History Project: Sister Michael

Sister Michael entered the Carmelite Monastery of the Resurrection in Indianapolis, Indiana and transferred to Nevada in 1956 to help in the building of the Carmel of Reno Order, which had been established just two years before. Although she intended to stay just one...

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