Product Description
by Bridget Haase (Author)
Through her unique gift for storytelling, combined with profound spiritual insight, Sr. Bridget Haase's Doors to the Sacred will invite readers to open the door to the room of daily experience, stand under its ceiling of providence, walk the floors of faith, and explore its nooks and crannies of divine surprises and disguises. By so doing, they will discover that each event of life is holy, saturated with God, and filled with hope.
Author Biography
For more than 50 years, Sr. Bridget Haase, OSU has been a well-traveled Ursuline Sister, having taught students in Appalachia and across the U.S. and in Mexico, ministered to starving children in Sudan, East Africa, and lived in Ursuline communities in West Africa, Italy, and England. In Massachusetts she worked as an infant/toddler early educator in an HIV/AIDS day care and was spirituality coordinator at The Boston Home, a long-term care facility for those coping with multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders. Bridget co-hosted "Spirit and Life," a weekly radio show on the Relevant Radio network, leads parish missions and retreats across the U.S., contributes reflections to Living Faith: Daily Catholic Devotions, and serves as Sister Storyteller, along with her puppet-companions Legs, Legette, Honeysuckle, and Miss Sunshine for local schoolchildren, ages 3-4 years as well as ministry at the local McDonalds.
She is the author of Generous Faith: Stories to Inspire Abundant Living and Doors to the Sacred: Everyday Events as Hints of the Holy ( Paraclete Press). Her honors include the Exceptional Women Award from Magic 106.7, Greater Boston Media; being featured both on the "Making a Difference" Segment of NBC Nightly News and as the cover story in St. Anthony Messenger Magazine; an honorary Doctor of Theology degree from Stonehill College; and the first recipient of the Caritas Dei award from Relevant Radio. Enjoy her website: www.wisdomwonder.com
