Nano named the Congregation

The Sisters of Charitable Instruction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

1 John 4: 7-12

My dear friends let is love one another, since love comes from God and everyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever fails to love does not know God, because God is love. This is the revelation of God’s love for us, that God sent his only son into the world that we might have life through him. Love consists in this: it is not we who love God, but God loved us and sent his Son to expiate our sins. My dear friends if God loved us so much, we too should love each other. No one has ever seen God, but as long as we love each other God remains in us and his love comes to perfection in us.

Listen with great attentiveness to the voice

that calls you the Beloved Henri Nouwen

Apart, in shadowed hours of night and dawn,

Leaning heart to heart on the One who

pulses life

Raphael Consedine

Response

May we burn with like desire

while here we seek to bring

the dream of God alive today

in this small corner of our yearning

world.

Nano’s Song

See the light shine from the lantern

See the flame glow through the years

In her heart there blazed a fire

May we burn with like desire.

There’s a light for those in darkness

And a call to lift the load

She believed and like a pilgrim

Chose to walk tomorrow’s road.

There’s a dream our God is dreaming

Will we dare to dream the same?

Come, go out, take up our lanterns

And let love ignite the flame.

She invites us in the silence

To ponder and to trust

Will we listen as she listened?

And lift the lowly from the dust.

Nano Nagle we are grateful

For the light you chose to shine

May our lives be like bread broken

And our offerings poured like wine.

There’s a dream our God is dreaming

Will we dare to dream the same?

Come, go out, take up our lanterns

And let love ignite the flame.

See the light shine from the lantern

See the flame glow through the years

In her heart there blazed a fire

May we burn with like desire

There’s a light for those in darkness

And a call to lift the load

She believed and like a pilgrim

Chose to walk tomorrow’s road.

Response

May we burn with like desire

while here we seek to bring

the dream of God alive today

in this small corner of our yearning

world.