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One Good Day: Thoughts on Thanksgiving
...the first Thanksgiving is the stuff of nightmares — illness decimated them, war (with colonists and other tribes) nearly finished them off. It’s enough to dash anyone’s joy. Together Thanksgiving became a national holiday in 1863 for one very important reason: President Lincoln was desperately trying to find something that might bring the divided nation together, if only for one day — one good day. And while the first Thanksgiving probably ran for several days, those were good days, too....
Congregation releases calls for action, days of prayer in anticipation of Inauguration Day
...those Lost to COVID-19 The Presidential Inaugural Committee will host a memorial to honor those lost to COVID-19. A Washington, D.C., ceremony will feature a lighting around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. People around the country can join by illuminating buildings and ringing church bells at 5:30 p.m., EST, in a national moment of unity and remembrance. D.C. Catholic Coalition Prayer The D.C. Catholic Coalition invites all to join on Sunday, January 17, at 7 p.m., EST, to mark the...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...* Clarksville, Ind.: Teacher, Our Lady of Providence High School (1965-66), * Fort Wayne, Ind.: Teacher, Central Catholic High School (1966-69), * Indianapolis: Teacher, Roncalli High School (1969-70), * Lincoln, Neb.: Teaching Graduate Assistant, University of Nebraska (1970-71), * Clarksville, Ind.: Teacher, Our Lady of Providence High School (1971-78), * Evansville, Ind.: Auditor/Advocate/Notary/Secretary, Diocese of Evansville (1978-81), * Evansville, Ind.: Auditor/Advocate/Assistant to Officials, Diocese of Evansville (1981-84), * Evansville, Ind.: Assistant to Judicial Vicar/Judge/Defender of Bond, Tribunal, Diocese of Evansville...
Twenty-one Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Providence High School (1972-78), • Evansville: WED Advisor (1978-79), • Clarksville: Teacher, Our Lady of Providence High School (1979-81), • Evansville; Teacher, Evansville Reitz Memorial High School (1981-94), • Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Adjunct Instructor/Research Assistant Tutor, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (1996), and • Saint Mary-of-the-Woods: Adjunct Instructor/Director of Education, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (1996-2006). Sister Margaret has also ministered in Texas and Illinois. Sister Suzanne Dailey is a native of Lincoln, Nebraska. Currently, she ministers as the General Secretary of the Sisters of...
Four Sisters of Providence celebrate their 50th anniversary
...Hospital (1975). Detroit: clinical pastoral education staff, Mt. Carmel-Mercy Hospital (1976 and 1977). Lincoln Park, Mich.: clinical pastoral education staff, Outer Drive Hospital (1976). Ypsilanti, Mich.: clinical pastoral education staff, Ypsilanti State Hospital (1977). River Grove, Ill.: Director of religious education, St. Cyprian Parish (1977-1987). River Forest, Ill.: Director of religious education, St. Luke Parish (1987-1991). Joliet, Ill.: leadership formation consultant, Diocese of Joliet (1991-1996). Kankakee, Ill.: director of Lisieux Pastoral Center, and cathecism consultant (1996-2005); consultant author, Brown/ROA (1996-1997);...
Sister Angela Garlat
...brief chance to be a child herself,” said Sister Ann Sullivan in her commentary for Sister Angela Garlat, who died Aug. 5. The oldest of seven children of Silvio and Olivia (Biduli) Garlat, Augusta Garlat was born Aug. 26, 1908, in Rockford, Ill. Her hometown was in South Bend, Ind., where Augusta attended Lincoln Elementary School. When Augusta was 10 years old, her father died during the flu epidemic. Shortly thereafter, her mother was hospitalized, unable to care for her...
Civil War diary entries
...the streets, but no quarreling and fighting. …” Feb. 23, 1865: “Charlie Carney, a young man that has been in our service several years, goes off on the night train to escape the draft. Poor boy, where does he go[?] I do not know.” April 14, 1865: “Good Friday. President Lincoln is assassinated! This awful deed was committed in the theatre, he was shot in the head. He did not die on the spot, he lived till the next morning.”...
November 6, 2022: Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
...ones who will rise. That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called out ‘Lord,’ and the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to God all are alive.” Reflection This passage seems another attempt by the Sadducees to present Jesus with a trick question. Jesus doesn’t try to answer their question, but...
Sister Denise reflection: 2008 Rite of Commitment
...you servants … but I have called you friends.” Scripture scholars remind us that the gift of being called friends of Jesus, friends of God is no small thing. After all, the scholars say, Moses, David and Joshua were all called servants of Yahweh. In the Hebrew testament, only Abraham is called the friend of God. What an amazing door Jesus opens in his followers’ understanding of how God sees them – sees us. Yes, how perfectly these Scriptures capture...
August 24, 2025: Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
...us.’ He will say to you in reply, ‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’ Then he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers.’ And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out. And people will come from the east and the...
The surprising life of Sister Paula Damiano
...she developed a new understanding of the Communion of Saints. She came to envision the saints as people committed to the good, regardless of their faith tradition. The deep friendships she developed with these people confirmed her belief that we are all on this journey, whether we call our God Jehovah, Lord, Allah or Yahweh. She found she has much in common with other daughters of Abraham — Jews, Muslims, Christians from a variety of faith backgrounds. Sister Paula’s vision...
October 30, 2022: Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
...I’m caught cheating, I pay four times the damage.” Jesus said, “Today is salvation day in this home! Here he is: Zacchaeus, son of Abraham! For the Son of Man came to find and restore the lost.” Reflection A wise theology professor helped me with this reflection. Years ago, she asked students to work at “playing with the text” when we read scripture. Our confused faces prompted her to expand her teaching. A few of her additional suggestions include: “DIG...