“I am looking forward to heaven, it’s coming and I’m so grateful. I just pray. What would we do without prayer? We couldn’t survive.” Maria Luisa Meza, IHM on her 99th birthday
“The creative dreamer is the real power behind the throne. Dream extravagantly. It’s FREE.” Magdalen “Maggie” Martin
“Flowers grow out of dark moments.” Corita Kent
“I have felt for some time that the IHMs are being asked in a special way to read the signs of the times, to forge ahead, to begin with enthusiasm to work at a community of hope.” Mother Humiliata Caspary
“We have always been pursuing a vision…to personally live a life committed to growing in Christian love in community — the vision of a world transformed by the efforts of small groups of people from one where hatred, oppression, violence, injustice and alienation prevail, to one where love, justice, equality, peace and happiness prevail for all persons.” Margaret-Rose Welch
“My hope for the community is that it may always stay in that uncomfortable position of standing on tiptoe looking for the rising sun, looking for one more opportunity to become a little more faithful, a little more effective, a little more generous in working with others to birth God’s presence in our midst.” Marie Egan
We, the members of the Immaculate Heart Community, rooted in Jesus Christ and united with the people of God, commit ourselves to build relations in society which foster access of all persons to truth, dignity, and full human development, and to strategically change practices and situations which impede such access.
In our choice of work and living style, and in our use of time, talent, and money, we hold ourselves accountable to God and one another for effecting this goal and supporting one another in this effort.
Corita Film Screening March 11th, 2007
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