Writings

Ongoing

• The blog at julievieira.org features occasional writings on the poetry and rough prose of everyday life with regular dips into Teresa de Ávila, mysticism, pop culture, darkness and light, and just making it through life

Various articles written by julie vieira

• “Finding God by unexisting God” for Global Sisters Report (February 12, 2025)
• “Hollowed and hallowed: vocation minister as leader into the future” for Horizon: Journal of the National Religious Vocation Conference 49:3 (Summer 2024) 18-22
• “The day I manifested Jehovah’s Witnesses” for Global Sisters Report (June 10, 2024)
• “The Grace of the Stoop” for Global Sisters Report (January 3, 2024)
• “O Radiant Dawn” for The Occasional Papers: A publication of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (Summer 2023) 29-31
• “A Prayer of Unfolding” for ihmpact: A Quarterly Publication of the IHM Sisters (Monroe, Michigan, Special Edition 2023) 7
• “Unravel the mystery of your call” for VISION (2023) 12-19
• “Living the Fullness of Life” for ihmpact: A Quarterly Publication of the IHM Sisters (Monroe, Michigan, Winter 2022-2023) 4-5
• “Superhero to Vocation Ministers: Teresa of Avila” for Horizon: Journal of the National Religious Vocation Conference 47:2 (Fall 2022) 3-7
• Faith and Social Justice” for ihmpact: A Quarterly Publication of the IHM Sisters (Monroe, Michigan, Summer 2021) 6
• “Book Review: Border-Crossing Spirituality: Transformation in the Borderland by Jung Eun Sophia Park, SNJM” for ihmpact: A Quarterly Publication of the IHM Sisters (Monroe, Michigan, Summer 2020) 6
• “Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary: Part 1” for ihmpact: A Quarterly Publication of the IHM Sisters (Monroe, Michigan, Summer 2020) 2
• “Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary: Part 2” for ihmpact: A Quarterly Publication of the IHM Sisters (Monroe, Michigan, Fall 2020) 3
• “Your online image: what it is, why it matters” for Horizon: Journal of the National Religious Vocation Conference 44:2 (Spring 2019) 3-6
• “IHM Reflections from the Border: A Series of Four Journal Entries” for the IHM Sisters (January 21 – February 1, 2019)
• “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it” for the IHM Sisters (September 2018)
• “Drawn by God” for the IHM Sisters (July 2018)
• “Taco emojis and the catacombs of the early church” for Global Sisters Report (January 26, 2017)
• “Young people flock to the convent in search of Pokémon” for Global Sisters Report (July 21, 2016)
• “If you’re not in person, you’re not real” for Global Sisters Report (June 1, 2016)
• “Holy Week: The art of remembering” for Global Sisters Report (March 21, 2016)
• “Using technology to find your way home” for Global Sisters Report (January 26, 2016)
• “Pray the newsfeed” for Global Sisters Report (November 19, 2015)
• “I’m A Nun & Sometimes I Don’t Have Time For Prayer” re-published from A Nun’s Life at MindBodyGreen.com (September 30, 2015)
• “Internet is vast, but personal encounter is still very possible” for Global Sisters Report (September 16, 2015)
• “Social media, an invitation rooted in the gospel” for Horizon: Journal of the National Religious Vocation Conference 40:3 (Summer 2015) 25-28
• “Six myths about becoming a nun” for VISION Vocation Guide (2013) Note: Revised and reprinted for VISION Vocation Guide (2019)
• “Daring, Risking, Dreaming” for The Occasional Papers: A publication of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (Winter 2010) 22-23
• “From Sacristies to Snow Angels: Finding God in All Things” in the book From the Pews in the Back: Young Women and Catholicism, edited by Kate Dugan and Jennifer Owens (Liturgical Press, 2009)
• “How a 16th-century nun guides me in religious life” for VISION Vocation Guide (2009)
• “Waiting for Advent” by for Young Women and Catholicism blog (November 7, 2008)
• “Spreading the Word, Online” interview in the book Clear Blogging How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them by Bob Walsh (February 7, 2007)

Video and Audio Podcasts Featuring julie vieira

• “Julie Vieira, IHM, Preaches for the Feast of the Transfiguration” (Catholic Women Preach) (August 6, 2023)
• “How did I know? with Sister Julie Vieira, IHM” (Episode 3 of The Moth Series) (March 14, 2017)
• “Sister Julie Vieira, IHM” YouTube video by VISION Vocation Guide (August 9, 2009)
• “A Conversation about being a nun” on Pathways of Learning with host Sister Marie Pappas, CR, on The Catholic Channel, Sirius Satellite Radio #159 (October 23, 2007)
• “‘Ask Sister’ and Julie Vieira Answers,” Scott Simon of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition Saturday interviews julie vieira, ihm (March 31, 2007)
• Faith Salie of Public Radio International interviews julie vieira, ihm (2007)