Sharings

Dear Editor,

I read the article “Sacramental Revolution: ML interviews Kenan Osborne” (27:7) with relish! A revolution is right — not only in sacramental theology but in our entire world view. Newtonian physics (subject/object, duality, et al.) is a thing of the past — useful for technology and good in its time, but everything has changed. Science is where the change originated, but that change is beginning to reverberate throughout our world — an earthquake, really.

I recently attended the Conference on Science and Consciousness 2000 in Albuquerque. I heard physicists, physicians, psychotherapists, shamans, artists, musicians and theologians — top people all in their various fields — speak on these issues. We chose among nine speakers each day plus a keynote address every morning and entertainment every evening so that we heard four to six lectures per day for five days. A real mind bender! I am still coming down from that amazing experience and still sorting out my thoughts. One thing I know: We live in an extraordinary time and in a place of enormous beauty and mystery. You would have found yourself among like minds at that conference.

Thank you for your boldness and your profound understanding of the sacramental life.

Diana Hartmetz
hartmetz@newman.edu

Well wishes

Dear Editor,

I was more than delighted to read “Well, Well, Well” (ML 27:7) after our community of Franciscan Sisters met here during the first week of June for our Provincial Chapter. The theme we also used was the “Woman at the Well.”

We borrowed the large “waterfall” that a neighboring parish had used during the Easter season. We asked the 90 sisters who were coming for the event to bring a container of water from their area of the country. We had sisters here from Texas, Arizona and Pennsylvania. We began the celebration with a dramatic reading of the story of Jesus and the woman at the well. “Jesus” and the “woman” acted out the story in the chapel, and then we went in procession to our meeting room. Each sister poured her water into the “well,” and we sang “Waiting at the Well.”

At the closing ceremony, we took the water from the “well” to carry to our different places of ministry.
I will be waiting for Andre Papineau’s new book, Jesus and the Kingdom of Nobodies (Resource Publications, Inc.), to appear at our local bookstore.

Sister Constance Frank, OSF
Pittsburgh

ML

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