Susan Black
Dec 28, 20241 min read
“Summer Heat” (watercolor) and “Portal to the Sky” (chalk pastel)
I am happy to say that these two works appear in “Reflections 2025”, the literary magazine published by the University of Southern Maine...
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Susan Black
Dec 28, 20241 min read
“Intervention”
It is affecting for me to see this very personal essay appear in “Reflections 2025”, the literary magazine published by the University of...
Susan Black
Dec 6, 20241 min read
“Advent Reflection”
This reflection was posted on the website for Catholic Artist Connection yesterday: https://catholicartistconnection.com/wait-for-the-lor...
Susan Black
Nov 13, 20241 min read
“Thoughts on My Legacy”
This essay appears page 31 of the inaugural issue of The Branches: A Journal of Literature and Philosophy ; one of my paintings is the...
Susan Black
Nov 5, 20245 min read
“Resilience as a Benedictine Virtue — An Oblate Reflects on the Closing of Queen of Angels Monastery”
It’s an honor and a blessing for me that this essay appears in the 2024 Fall/Winter issue of “Benedictines”, a journal published by the...
Susan Black
Nov 1, 20243 min read
“First Lessons in Faith”
I am sitting in the front seat of a car with Dad. Perhaps I am four years old. We are parked on a street near the garden apartment in...
Susan Black
Oct 20, 20241 min read
“Finding Treasure in Ancient Practices: Walking the Labyrinth and Making Mandalas”
What treasure do we seek in our lives, and where can it be found? As people of faith, we seek God, the ultimate treasure. And our faith...
Susan Black
Oct 20, 20241 min read
"Refreshing Our Advent Prayer Practice with Advent Wreathes and Mandalas"
Co-led with Sister DorothyJean Beyer A most beautiful season of the liturgical year, Advent can easily become lost in the hurly-burly of modern life, holiday observances and all the multiple demands we face. We can miss the spiritual gift of quietly waiting — anticipating — with Mary the birth of Jesus, the Word made Flesh, coming to dwell among us. This retreat will help you prepare for a fruitful Advent and a holy Christmas. You will learn how to incorporate two tradition
Susan Black
Sep 28, 20243 min read
“Finding My Place”
During the 2012 presidential campaign, Mitt Romney, visiting his home state of Michigan for the first time in a long time, said how glad...
Susan Black
Sep 19, 20241 min read
“It Was Tempting”
Writing class assignment for the prompt “$100”. Standing in the checkout lane at the supermarket, I glanced down on the floor and caught...
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