Servant of God Cora Evans

 

 

14 Of The Most Powerful Peace Quotes From St Teresa Of Avila

 

 

   St. Theresa of Avila

With the recent violence and tragedy in Paris, Beirut, and throughout the world, it can be challenging to continue to hope for peace in the world--the peace of Christ, the Prince of Peace. As Christians, we accept that we live in a fallen world and the cross is a reality. We accept that suffering and death are part of this journey, but that the ultimate reality is the Resurrection. We also accept that peace begins in our own hearts, our own families, and then radiates out into the world. In order to help us keep our eye on this reality and the eternal peace that we can only acheive through Christ, here are 14 beautiful quotes on peace from St. Theresa of Avila--a beloved saint and mystic.

1. "Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything."

This is a great challenge when we witness such vicious acts of violence and attacks against innocent life in the world. We must continue to trust in God's wisdom and mercy and persevere in prayer for all involved. Christ has is no stranger to suffering and loss, let us turn to him with our questions and our prayers, praying always "Jesus, we trust in you."

2. "May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us." 

We sometimes lose sight of our own purpose

and how we are meant to play a part in bringing peace to the world. So often it starts here: with internal peace--a peace with Our Lord and a deep sense of rest in the creation He has made us. Such a peace radiates out into our families and our communities. Cultivated in each of us, it could bring about great change in our world. And yet, suffering and death, pain and loss, will all continue to be part of our experience. Let us pray to be instruments of peace even in moments when it seems the battle is lost. Let us never submit to the lie that violence is victorious. 

3. "The closer one approaches to God, the simpler one becomes."

We have many worries in our world. Many of these are legitimate and valid, but some demand time and energy that would be better spent elsewhere. If we could all strive for deeper relationship with God, we would naturally release many of the worries, fears, and anxieties that separate us from one another and cause conflict between individuals, and, on a larger scale, between nations. It starts with each one of us. 

4. "Reflect upon the providence and wisdom of God in all created things and praise Him in them all."

It is challenging to understand why tragedies happen in our world. We know that God does not cause these tragedies, but that they are allowed to happen in accordance with our gift of free will. God does not take free will away from those who would abuse it. Still, how can we look on a tragic incident and see God's providence? One way is to dwell on the stories of heroism and courage that arise in crisis. Yes, we see great evil. But even devastating evil cannot comepletely wipe out the goodness and beauty of love. Look for the heroes--look for God in the wreckage and you will find Him glimmering through the stories of many souls that rose up to protect and aide those around them even at their own risk and self-sacrifice. 

5. "Truth suffers, but never dies."

This is so important to remember! Peace comes from remembering that the battle with death has been fought and won by Our Lord Jesus Christ. In light of everyday trials, and even in light of deep distress, we can find peace in the resiliance of truth and goodness.

6. "In this distress, — for then I had never had a single vision, — these Thy words alone were enough to remove it, and give me perfect peace: 'Be not afraid, my daughter: it is I; and I will not abandon thee. Fear not.'"

Let us take great solace in Our Lord's promises. Our experience and the world may not be the greatest witnesses of peace, but, again, look a little deeper and you might be surprised at the strength and perservance of the light. We will not be abondoned, though much may be required of us.  

7. "To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that."

Courage is not the absence of fear, it is the victory of peace over fear. 

8. "The tree that is beside the running water is fresher and gives more fruit."

If we desire peace, let us cultivate peace in ourselves and in our hearts.

9. "We need no wings to go in search of Him, but have only to look upon Him present within us."

May we always be assured of God's presence with us and be filled with the peace that comes of that assurance. 

10. "The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too."

When we are overcome by sadness, fear, or suffering; when the pains of loss overwhelm us; when evil seems to have taken power; let us look to the cross and be filled with peace, knowing that Christ has walked this road and walks it now with us and with all our brothers and sisters. 

11. "Pain is never permanent."

Again, we can find peace in the eternal promise of peace. No matter what assails us here on earth, it is temporary. Peace is everlasting. 

12. "Christ has no body now, but yours. No hands, no feet on earth, but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ looks compassion into the world.Yours are the feet with which Christ walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which Christ blesses the world."

This is a beautiful reminder to us about where peace comes from. So often when I witness suffering and tragedy, I find myself saddened by my helplessness. What can I do in the face of such pain and loss? Only something very small. It may never reach those in need directly, but it could reach someone else in need--someone in my own community. It could be the difference between a sense of belonging and a sense of isolation. This beautiful quote echoes the prayer of St. Francis: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.


 

13. "Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul."

Peace will only reign if we can learn to love. Love destroys pursuit of self, pursuit of power, pursuit of wealth, and so many other desires that can so easily be foundations of violence and conflict. 

14. "You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him."

Sometimes we may feel like we will never see peace in the world. We must persevere in prayer for peace. Nothing is impossible with God. 

   

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TheBuffaloNews.com

‘Take Another Look’ at Buffalo

 

 The special event “Take Another Look” aims to show guests a new-look Buffalo from the observation deck on top of City Hall. 

 

    

HarborCenter, Canalside, Larkinville, RiverWorks, Solar City – Buffalo’s resurgence is visible in many places and in many forms these days. Show it off from the top of City Hall to your friends and family who are in town for Thanksgiving during “Take Another Look” from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday.
The City Hall lobby will feature appetizers from new downtown eateries, local craft beers and wine, Buffalo-themed gifts for sale, City Hall tours led by Preservation Buffalo Niagara docents and career opportunities presented by Opportunity Buffalo.
In Council Chambers on the 13th floor, there will be interactive exhibits like a “Name that Place” street view quiz, “What I Love about Buffalo” video storytelling and themed crafts for kids.
The 25th floor – Windows on Buffalo enclosed observation deck that is handicap-accessible – will feature award-winning photographs of Buffalo and art by Public School 84 students. The 28th floor observation deck will feature Resonance, the Buffalo Public Schools’ 13-voice a capella vocal group, as well as coffee and dessert.
Both observation decks also will offer aerial tours by Explore Buffalo docents and views of the grain elevators lighting up as the sun sets over Lake Erie.
Tickets are $10 in advance at Citybration.com, $15 at the door ($10 if you bring a non-perishable food item and/or a gift for The News Neediest Fund; children are admitted free.)
– Kristy Kibler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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History in the Headlines

5 Things You May Not Know About the Pilgrims

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It’s Thanksgiving time in America, and families across the country will soon enjoy a meal that harkens back to the harvest feast held in 1621 by the residents of Plymouth Colony. But even as we remember the Pilgrims, our image of the English settlers remains largely based on myth rather than fact. Below, discover five things about the hosts of the original Thanksgiving that might come as a surprise.

1. Not all of the Mayflower’s passengers were motivated by religion.
The Mayflower actually carried three distinct groups of passengers within the walls of its curving hull. About half were in fact Separatists, the people we now know as the Pilgrims. Another handful of those on board were sympathetic to the Separatist cause but weren’t actually part of that core group of dissidents. The remaining passengers were really just hired hands—laborers, soldiers and craftsmen of various stripes whose skills were required for both the transatlantic crossing and those vital first few months ashore. Community leader John Alden, for instance, was originally a cooper, brought along to make and repair barrels on board the ship. Myles Standish, who would eventually become the military leader of Plymouth Colony, was a soldier hired for protection against whatever natives the settlers might encounter.
2. The Mayflower didn’t land in Plymouth first.
The Mayflower first landed at the tip of Cape Cod, in what is now Provincetown. The settlers had originally hoped to make for the mouth of the Hudson River and find fertile farmland somewhere north of present-day New York City, but bad weather forced them to retreat. They intended to try again for the Hudson, but the approaching winter and dwindling supplies eventually convinced them to continue on across Cape Cod Bay to Plymouth.
3. The Pilgrims didn’t name Plymouth, Massachusetts, for Plymouth, England.
In fact, the Pilgrims didn’t name Plymouth, Massachusetts, at all. It had been dubbed that years earlier by previous explorers to the region, and was clearly marked as Plymouth (or Plimoth—spellings varied somewhat) on maps that the Mayflower’s captain surely had on hand. It’s sheer coincidence that the Mayflower ended up sailing from a town called Plymouth in England and then landing in a town called Plymouth in America. And it’s unlikely that the Mayflower’s passengers felt any emotional connection to Plymouth, England, at all. Most of the Separatists had been living in exile in Holland for 10 years before sailing for America, and the rest of the passengers were drawn from the greater London area. The Mayflower only ended up departing from Plymouth because bad weather and misfortune had prevented the settlers from making the crossing on two earlier attempts—first from Southampton and then from Dartmouth—before they finally succeeded in sailing from the port of Plymouth.
4. Some of the Mayflower’s passengers had been to America before.
Several of the Mayflower’s crew had made the journey at least once before, on either fishing or exploration trips. One notable figure, Stephen Hopkins, had even tried to settle in the New World 10 years earlier, in the Jamestown colony of Virginia. On his way to join the settlement, his ship was wrecked off the coast of Bermuda, stranding him and his fellow passengers for several months. The story of the Virginia settlers’ shipwreck and rescue made waves back home in England, and William Shakespeare freely admitted that he based his play “The Tempest” on the tale. He even may have named one of the characters, Stephano, after Stephen Hopkins, who was once one of Shakespeare’s neighbors. Hopkins eventually returned to England and later joined the Mayflower as a member of the sympathetic group of supporters from London.
5. The Pilgrims were relatively tolerant of other religious beliefs.
The Puritans, who settled the region north of Plymouth, were known for their strict approach to how religion was practiced within their borders. The Pilgrims, on the other hand, never made any attempts to convert outsiders to their faith, including the Native Americans they encountered in America and the nonbelievers who’d joined them as laborers in England. Generally speaking, they didn’t even try to impose their unique observances on their friends and neighbors. For instance, while the Pilgrims themselves didn’t themselves Christmas, they didn’t stop others from taking the day off and celebrating it as they wished. They also allowed men who were not part of their faith to hold public office, and they apparently had no problem with the intermarriage of believers and nonbelievers. As a matter of fact, they didn’t consider marriage to be a religious matter at all, preferring instead to view it as a civil contract outside the church’s jurisdiction.

In September 1620, during the reign of King James I, around 100 English men and women–many of them members of the English Separatist Church–set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower, a three-masted merchant ship. The ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod, in present-day Massachusetts, two months later, and in late December anchored at Plymouth Rock, where they would form the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England. Though more than half the original settlers died during that grueling first winter, the survivors were able to secure peace treaties with neighboring Native American tribes and build a largely self-sufficient economy within five years.

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Among the group traveling on the Mayflower in 1620 were close to 40 members of a radical Puritan faction known as the English Separatist Church. Feeling that the Church of England had not sufficiently completed the necessary work of the Protestant Reformation, the group had chosen to break with the church altogether. The Separatists had sought religious freedom before, fleeing England in 1607 and 1608 to settle in the Netherlands, first in Amsterdam and later in the town of Leiden, where they remained for the next decade. Wanting to secure their English language and heritage, and seeking more economic opportunity, the group–later known as the Pilgrims–laid plans for a voyage to the New World aboard the Mayflower.

Did You Know?

Three more ships traveled to Plymouth soon after the Mayflower, including the Fortune (1621), the Anne and the Little James (both 1623). Passengers on these first four ships were called the "Old Comers" of Plymouth Colony, and were given special treatment in later colonial affairs.

Rough seas and storms prevented the ship from reaching its initial destination–a region near the Hudson River–and after 66 days it reached the shores of Cape Cod, anchoring at the site of Provincetown on November 21. They sent an exploratory party ashore, and on December 18 docked at Plymouth Rock, on the western side of Cape Cod Bay. The explorer John Smith had named the area Plymouth, and the settlers decided the name was appropriate, as the Mayflower had set sail from the port of Plymouth in England.

Surviving the First Year in Plymouth Colony

For the next few months, many of the settlers stayed on the Mayflower while ferrying back and forth to shore to build their new settlement. In March, they began moving ashore permanently. More than half the settlers fell ill and died that first winter, victims of an epidemic of disease that swept the new colony. Soon after they moved ashore, the Pilgrims were introduced to a Native American man named Tisquantum, or Squanto, who would become a member of the colony. A member of the Pawtuxet tribe (from present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island) who had been kidnapped by the explorer John Smith and taken to England, only to escape back to his native land, Squanto acted as an interpreter and mediator between Plymouth’s leaders and local Native Americans, including Chief Massasoit of the Pokanoket tribe. In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims famously shared a harvest feast with the Pokanokets; the meal is now considered the basis for the Thanksgiving holiday.
All the adult males aboard the Mayflower had signed the so-called Mayflower Compact, a document that would become the foundation of Plymouth’s government. Though the Separatists were a minority in the group, they formed its powerful center, and would entirely control the colony’s government during its first 40 years. William Bradford, a leader of the Separatist congregation, was one of the framers of the Mayflower Compact, and would serve as Plymouth’s governor for 30 years after its founding. Bradford also kept a voluminous journal chronicling the ship’s voyage and the founding of Plymouth Colony.

Growth and Decline of the Plymouth Colony

With peace secured, the colonists in Plymouth were able to concentrate on building a viable settlement for themselves rather than spend their time and resources guarding themselves against attack. Squanto taught them how to plant corn, which became an important crop, as well as where to fish and hunt beaver. Though Plymouth would never develop as robust an economy as later settlements–such as Massachusetts Bay Colony–agriculture, fishing and trading made the colony self-sufficient within five years after it was founded.
Many other European settlers followed in the Pilgrims’ footsteps to New England. As the settlers sought to occupy more and more land in the region, relations with Native Americans deteriorated, and sporadic violence broke out that would culminate decades later in the bloody King Philip’s War of 1675. By that time, the ideal of Plymouth Colony–conceived in the Mayflower Compact as a self-contained community governed by a common religious affiliation–had given way to the far less lofty influences of trade and commerce, and the devout Pilgrims had fragmented into smaller, more self-serving groups. Still, the original concept served as the foundation for many later settlements. These included John Winthrop’s Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded in 1630, which became the most populous and prosperous colony in the region. Plymouth’s influence in New England declined accordingly, until it was absorbed by Massachusetts in 1691.

The Mayflower

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In September 1620, a merchant ship called the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, a port on the southern coast of England. Typically, the Mayflower’s cargo was wine and dry goods, but on this trip the ship carried passengers: 102 of them, all hoping to start a new life on the other side of the Atlantic. Nearly 40 of these passengers were Protestant Separatists–they called themselves “Saints”–who hoped to establish a new church in the New World. Today, we often refer to the colonists who crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower as “Pilgrims.”

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Pilgrims Before the Mayflower

In 1608, a congregation of disgruntled English Protestants from the village of Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, left England and moved to Leyden, a town in Holland. These “Separatists” did not want to pledge allegiance to the Church of England, which they believed was nearly as corrupt and idolatrous as the Catholic Church it had replaced, any longer. (They were not the same as the Puritans, who had many of the same objections to the English church but wanted to reform it from within.) The Separatists hoped that in Holland, they would be free to worship as they liked

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The Separatists who founded the Plymouth Colony referred to themselves as “Saints,” not “Pilgrims.” The use of the word “Pilgrim” to describe this group did not become common until the colony’s bicentennial.

In fact, the Separatists (they called themselves “Saints”) did find religious freedom in Holland, but they also found a secular life that was more difficult to navigate than they’d anticipated. For one thing, Dutch craft guilds excluded the migrants, so they were relegated to menial, low-paying jobs. Even worse was Holland’s easygoing, cosmopolitan atmosphere, which proved alarmingly seductive to some of the Saints’ children. (These young people were “drawn away,” Separatist leader William Bradford wrote, “by evill [sic] example into extravagance and dangerous courses.”) For the strict, devout Separatists, this was the last straw. They decided to move again, this time to a place without government interference or worldly distraction: the “New World” across the Atlantic Ocean.

The Mayflower

First, the Separatists returned to London to get organized. A prominent merchant agreed to advance the money for their journey. The Virginia Company gave them permission to establish a settlement, or “plantation,” on the East Coast between 38 and 41 degrees north latitude (roughly between the Chesapeake Bay and the mouth of the Hudson River). And the King of England gave them permission to leave the Church of England, “provided they carried themselves peaceably.”
In August 1620, a group of about 40 Saints joined a much larger group of (comparatively) secular colonists–“Strangers,” to the Saints–and set sail from England on two merchant ships: the Mayflower and the Speedwell. The Speedwell began to leak almost immediately, however, and the ships headed back to port. The travelers squeezed themselves and their belongings onto the Mayflower and set sail once again.
Because of the delay caused by the leaky Speedwell, the Mayflower had to cross the Atlantic at the height of storm season. As a result, the journey was horribly unpleasant. Many of the passengers were so seasick they could scarcely get up, and the waves were so rough that one “Stranger” was swept overboard and drowned. (It was “the just hand of God upon him,” Bradford wrote later, for the young sailor had been “a proud and very profane yonge man.”)

The Mayflower Compact

After two miserable months at sea, the ship finally reached the New World. There, the Mayflower’s passengers found an abandoned Indian village and not much else. They also found that they were in the wrong place: Cape Cod was located at 42 degrees north latitude, well north of the Virginia Company’s territory. Technically, the Mayflower colonists had no right to be there at all. In order to establish themselves as a legitimate colony (“Plymouth,” named after the English port from which they had departed) under these dubious circumstances, 41 of the Saints and Strangers drafted and signed a document they called the Mayflower Compact. This Compact promised to create a “civil Body Politick” governed by elected officials and “just and equal laws.” It also swore allegiance to the English king.

Plymouth Colony and the First Thanksgiving

The colonists spent the first winter, which only 53 passengers and half the crew survived, living onboard the Mayflower. (The Mayflower sailed back to England in April 1621.) Once they moved ashore, the colonists faced even more challenges. During their first winter in America, more than half of the Plymouth colonists died from malnutrition, disease and exposure to the harsh New England weather. In fact, without the help of the area’s native people, it is likely that none of the colonists would have survived. An English-speaking Pawtuxet named Samoset helped the colonists form an alliance with the local Wampanoags, who taught them how to hunt local animals, gather shellfish and grow corn, beans and squash. At the end of the next summer, the Plymouth colonists celebrated their first successful harvest with a three-day festival of thanksgiving. We still commemorate this feast today.
Eventually, the Plymouth colonists were absorbed into the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. Still, the Mayflower Saints and their descendants remained convinced that they alone had been specially chosen by God to act as a beacon for Christians around the world. “As one small candle may light a thousand,” Bradford wrote, “so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.”

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Five Trips That Changed My Life

Posted by Annie Fitzsimmons in Urban Insider on October 29, 2015

  Ireland's Dingle Peninsula (Photograph by Berthold Steinhilber/laif/Redux)

Traveling has its challenges—canceled flights, lost passports, maxed-out credit cards, security scares, you name it. But more often than not, at the end of the day, the thrill of becoming acquainted with a new place—and the people who call it home—outweighs the risks of leaving home. It can even be transformative.

When I was growing up, flipping through the pages of a travel magazine took me out of my life and into a world I desperately wanted to experience for myself.

Now, as a travel writer myself, I get to explore new destinations all the time. But there are some trips that stand out more than others—the ones that changed my life in some meaningful way.

Here are five transformative experiences I’d recommend to everyone:

> Ireland

Given my last name, it’s no surprise that I adore Ireland. The Irish have a special ability of making you feel welcome and poking fun in a way that, somehow, makes you feel great.

At this point, I’ve visited the Emerald Isle ten times, including a few trips with my family. I’ve biked the Aran Islands, driven the cragged edges of the Dingle Peninsula, and luxuriated in the history and warmth of Ashford Castle.

For me, Frank and Joan Maher, the owners of Petra House B&B in Galway, represent the ultimate in Irish charm. I wonder how Irish people learn it, and if it really is in their blood. In any case, it doesn’t get much better than being served warm scones and jam after a day of rainy exploration.

A small boat navigates the Mekong in Vietnam. (Photograph by Vadim, flickr)

> The Mekong River

A small boat navigates the Mekong in Vietnam. (Photograph by Vadim, flickr)

This is the trip that I can’t stop thinking about, even six months after returning home. I sailed the Mekong River for four nights, fromSaigon in Vietnam to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on the Aqua Mekong with just 40 fellow passengers.

In the sultry Southeast Asian heat, we took skiff boats to explore islands that few tourists have seen and biked for miles through chili fields and past temples. The intimacy of the ship—and sharing such special and enriching experiences—turned strangers into lifelong friends.

It is rare to meet people who have as much contagious passion for what they do as Francesco Galli Zugaro, the founder of Aqua Expeditions, and his wife, Birgit. The proprietors of the family-owned company moved their kids to Singapore for two years while they built the boat—whose contemporary, understated decor reflects their own home’s design—and continue to pay personal attention to every last detail of the guest experience.

> Galápagos Islands

Last year, when I boarded the National Geographic Endeavour for an expedition to the Galápagos, I mistakenly brought two boxes of daily contact lenses for my right eye, leaving my left eye virtually blind. How was I going to experience the life-changing beauty of the islands if I could only see out of one eye?

I was boiling mad at myself. I happened to be going through one of the worst times of my life, which only amplified the crisis.

Luckily, I found an extra daily lens that I could wear for a few days. And as time went on, the islands, in their hypnotic way, showed me how small my problems were—how solvable everything could be.

My therapy became early-morning hikes, swimming with fearless creatures in pristine water, and relaxing with a glass of white wine on the upper deck in the glorious, equatorial sunshine. Plus, my mind was constantly engaged by lectures from on-ship experts and interactions with like-minded travelers. I disembarked feeling like a new person.

> Switzerland

I read Heidi when I was a little girl and always dreamed of visiting an Alpine village one day. As I grew older, visions of bubbling fondue and sweet chocolate danced in my head.

When I finally was able to travel to Switzerland, it was exactly what I hoped it would be. Even now, after nearly a dozen visits, Switzerland continues to deliver—and surprise. (Where else can you stumble upon a cow auction in Gstaad, then zip back to the urban powerhouse Zurich on the most pleasant train system in the world?)

This year, I was blown away by the hospitality I experienced at jaw-dropping hotels like The Carlton in St. Moritz and The Chedi in Andermatt. But despite all the global grandeur to be found in Switzerland, it’s the simple things—hiking in the hills above Zermatt, sipping coffee in Lucernewith a view of the Chapel Bridge—that I cherish most.

> Cusco, Peru

Like many travelers, I went to Peru to see Machu Picchu. But it was Cusco, the red-roofed city bursting with history, that captured the joy and beauty of modern Peru for me—even though it took me a couple of days to adjust to being more than 11,000 feet above sea level.

My visit coincided with the grand opening of the Belmond’s Palacio Nazarenas, a hotel housed in a former convent that has claimed a spot on the list of my favorite places in the world.

I spent much of my time on my own in Cusco, exploring the tiny shops in the San Blas neighborhood, strolling the Museo de Plantas del Cusco, people-watching in the Plaza de Armas, and hiking up to the ruins of Sacsayhuaman, an Inca citadel on the outskirts of town.

It was on this trip that I discovered that I actually enjoy my own company—and it was here that I fell head-over-heels in love with South America.

Annie Fitzsimmons is Nat Geo Travel’s Urban Insider, exploring the cities of the world with style. Follow her adventures on Twitter @anniefitz and on Instagram @anniefitzsimmons.

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 Friends, Attached is our latest Prayer Companions Newsletter.



Friends,

Attached is our latest Prayer Companions Newsletter.

I am not sure if you are interested in this, but it does give you a little update on the Sisters of St. Mary.

Know of my prayers for each of you and your families as we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving.

We also remember in a special way all those who live in fear, especially because of the violence touching their lives.

Let us pray together for all those who need our prayers.

Wishing you God's peace,

Sr. Corinne

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