Collected from ERN readers

Four readers have contributed these thumbnail sketches of eight books that impressed them. If you read a book you’d like to share, you are welcome to send us similar brief sketches for possible future compilations.

Read more: 8 books: mini-reviews

Attracting new members to the call of brotherhood

A group of Christian Brothers in India confront the real challenges of promoting new vocations, and what these ask of the brothers – not just in terms of organisation but in terms of how the calling is lived.

Read more: Witness is the only way

Is there a future for Edmund’s Brothers?

Something is dying; but what exactly? Faith in Jesus promises life beyond death. What form might it take? What light does Holy Week shed on this, with its Wow! moment, its Yow! moment, its Ow! moment, and its How? moment?

Read more: Resurrection and Religious Life within the ERN

Creating space for reflection

A story from Ballarat Australia, where a group of people with connections to both the Edmund Rice and Catherine McAuley traditions have been coming together regularly to grow in the spirituality that powers their lives.

Read more: Ballarat Community