The focus of the Summer 2025 issue of LCWR's journal, Occasional Papers, is That Your Joy May Be Full. (John 16:24) As we live further into a time of much uncertainty and rapid change for the world, our nation, and our religious institutes, the capacity to feel and be a source of deep joy is needed more than ever. That deep joy may come now from new sources, recognizing that as life evolves, what may have brought us joy in the past simply is no longer available in the same ways. How do we learn to discover joy in new forms, perhaps unanticipated forms? How do we embrace joy and own our joy so that no force in the world, no disappointment, no difficult change can take away the joy that dwells in our deepest being?
Writers in this issue explore joy from an array of perspectives. Also included in this issue are interviews with Mark S. Burrows, co-author of You Are the Future: Living the Questions with Rainer Maria Rilke, and Steven Petrow, author of The Joy You Make.
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