Women's Weekend: Palm Sunday

We are the Soil where God’s Life Grows

Every spring, the gardener begins the process of readying the soil for the new growing season.  The leftover leaves from last fall must be raked, the perennials trimmed, and the hard soil hoed and opened.  Without this hard work, the soil will not be ready to receive the seeds or the spring rain that will allow the new plants to grow.  

Like a garden, the soil of our hearts also needs careful preparation followed by regular work so that the seeds of God’s life may grow and flourish in us!  

Through presentations, guided meditations, rituals and sharing, participants will be invited to join the Divine Gardener in attending to the soil of their hearts, keeping it open to receive God’s abundant life and blessings.

This year, St. Raphaela Center joins the Handmaids throughout the world in commemorating the 100th anniversary of St. Raphaela’s death, so it is a special time to celebrate the fruit that her life has produced and open ourselves to allow it to continue being fruitful in us. Raphaela’s total openness and surrender to God, made her soil fertile and God’s seed became within her God’s own life for our world.  She allowed God to trim and prune…her YES, always at the ready!  Now her seed continues to bear fruit all over the world!  Isn’t this what we want our soil to be?  So, come and allow the Divine Gardener to do what the Gardener knows best to do with your soil!