In This Issue

by Dolores Steinberg | Editor

Already you will have noticed something new about this issue: the format and the colors! One of the blessings of CUSA’s new partnership with RENEW International is the talented and larger team now working on our little magazine. In this issue, arriving in the season when we ponder Christ’s coming to share our weakness and need, you will recognize his power and love at work in the lives of CUSANs old and new, past and present. First in our thoughts is Father Lawrence, to whom we owe such a debt of gratitude. Joan Donnelly’s letter to him in this issue speaks for all of us.

This issue will also give you an opportunity to meet Mare Ernesto, incoming administrator, and Jennifer Bober, both from RENEW International, and both of whom are no strangers to the kinds of challenges CUSANs face. Lorraine Fleury, CUSA member and author, speaks about her new book in an interview by Deacon Charles Paolino, managing editor at RENEW. Familiar CUSAN writers also appear in these pages—Father Jerry Bracken, Anna Marie Sopko, and Shirley Bowling—and departed members Father Richard J. Hopkins and Betty O’Brien.

Articles in this issue cover everything from the Rosary to St. Joseph to good decisions, from earth and sea to heaven (via prayer). Thank you to all our writers, and may this New Year be a happy and blessed one for all of you!