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By Cara Buckley – New York Times The prairie sisters of Wisconsin would never call themselves renegades. Not in their decision to open their Roman Catholic community to Protestants. And not in their decades-long work restoring 170 acres around their monastery to ecological health, transforming lawns and farm fields into thriving oak savanna and native prairie that is riotous with wildflowers and grasses, insects, rabbits and birds. The sisters of Holy Wisdom Monastery outside Madison, Wisc., say these actions fulfill their highest calling: to welcome all people and care for the Earth as a sacred place. The sisters have won…

Sisters, I just learned that a new resource has been published for people using theophostic prayer in healing prayer ministry. Fr. Bob Sears and another Catholic priest from north Dakota have authored a Çatholic’s guide to Theophostic Ministry.For any Catholic sisters involved in healing prayer ministry, this is worth having and using. Protestants (and many Catholics) among our community of women may not know that inner healing prayer ministry was a non-issue back in the 1970s – except for some visionary Catholics and a few Pentecostals who had never stopped. Catholics like Francis and Judith MacNutt, the Linn brothers started writing about…