I was greatly touched and inspired when I walked into the chapel the other day to find my dear Sr. Mary Clare in a beautiful stance of prayer and bonding with baby Mary (see pic). We have had this beautiful little statue of Mary as an infant on our altar in honor of her birthday September 8th. As we like to do at times, we extended her birthday, in an informal way, to an octave celebration so that we could enter more deeply into this mystery; especially because one of the graces we have been praying for in our communal life together lately is child-likeness and littleness. I asked Sr. Mary Clare if she could share her experience and she wrote: