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In memory of …
...informing all residents that all roads in the area had to be named and labeled in case of emergency. A photo of Sister Mary Esther Lane taken in 1979 at Yosemite National Park. In Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Village, many residents who lived on one street decided they had to name it “Mary Lane.” The street was eventually changed to “Mary Lane Road.” “I understand that Mary Esther loved taking visitors over there to show them the road that is named after...
Sister Agnes Clare Buckley
...a teacher for so long.” Sister Agnes Clare also supported others with cards and phone calls. Her brother and others noted that if you asked Agnes what she wanted, she would say stamps, and not books – rolls! Sister Mary Fran Keusal, a band member, noted that, “If Agnes knew that someone had an ingrown toenail, she sent that person a card. I know how many cards she sent because I made hundreds and hundreds of return address labels for...
Where Your Treasure Is
...by thick concrete walls and by a system that had labeled her as less than human. As Congress begins negotiations for the 2019 budget, we know the Trump Administration has requested more resources to remove beloved residents like Sonia from our communities. The administration’s requests include: A massive increase in immigration detention – to 51,379 people in detention across the country every day Funds to recruit and hire 1,000 additional ICE officers, and Funds to compensate more local police to...
Witness
...the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” I believe Will LeCroy can teach us an essential truth: Who among us deserves to be labeled, judged, discarded even, according to the worst thing we ever did? Rather, are we not called to honor human dignity and extend God’s loving design to all creation? To all persons? Surely just as we know that God loves us always and is never far from us, so are we...
Sister Mary (Mary Agatha) Carlton
...Officially Sister Mary was the volunteer coordinator and in that position interviewed volunteers and supervised their orientation. In addition, according to Sister Pat, Sister Mary assisted with the taking in and labeling of medications, restocking examination rooms, picking up supplies, cleaning the clinic and doing fund raisers. Sister Pat attributes their many returning clients to Sister Mary’s influence. Ever the gracious and generous woman, she did indeed ‘heal the oppressed,’” shared Sister Mary Roger. “Over the last five years, Sister...
Sister Mary Charles Spalding
...St. Patrick in Fayetteville from 1938 to 1943. “While on mission in Fayetteville, Sister Mary Charles encountered the racist attitude so prevalent in the South. She was criticized because in stopping for a visit in the church, she chose to kneel in the back pews, those reserved for the African Americans parishioners,” read Sister Joan. “St. Patrick was not to be her last experience as a missionary in one of the so-called home missions. She would later serve two years...
Sister Mary Magdalen Schwartz
...told her companions, ‘I hope I don’t get this one!’ But ‘get this one’ she did and entered as a freshman in 1939,” shared Sister Ann. “It was the beginning of a love affair with Providence High School and later for Providence-St. Mel (PSM) and its mission to educate African-American children,” said Sister Ann. Sister Mary Magdalen entered the Congregation Feb. 2, 1941. “She left the novitiate for a short time and re-entered in 1943, pronouncing her first and perpetual...
Forgiveness and reconciliation
...Mystery, the dying and rising with Jesus. Only so do we come to the fullness of life. This is grace, that God acts in us, giving us the kind of peace and freedom we see in others as reconciliation happens. An international example of this can be seen in the Reconciliation Assembly held for two years in South Africa, where those who were mistreated told their story of apartheid and reconciled with the offenders in a public forum. Many other...
PFS volunteer brings love for justice, education to her work
...which she worked for twelve years dealing with issues from poverty and the nuclear arms race, to equal rights for women and apartheid in Africa to US support of wars in Central America. When asked about the time she was arrested for peaceful protesting, she responds, “Which time? I’ve been arrested lots of times.” Sister Dorothy is a woman willing to put her own comfort and security on the line to bring goodness, equality and fairness to others. She’s still...
Changing a life can be life changing
...to Ghana in West Africa. Sister Joann also worked in a jail, where she substituted for six weeks, and then worked in a library taking books to prisoners. Moving back to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in 2006, Sister Joann was asked by Sister Dorothy Hucksoll if she would be interested in visiting with a Death Row inmate. “I told her to let me think about it,” Sister Joann recalls. “I prayed a lot about it because I didn’t want to accept something...
Sister Mary Evangelista Herber
...hearing hampered some of her visiting. She enjoyed working with flowers, especially African violets and creating her own artistic cards of which many of us were the recipients. She savored her hot cup of coffee! And she enjoyed red wine before going to bed,” continued Sister Mary. “Eucharist was paramount for Vangie, and she treasured time in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. I had the privilege of accompanying her there a few times in the past two years. Upon entering the...
Hope and healing for Earth: Earth Day 2012
...grassroots activism of Earth Day 1990. It used the Internet to organize activists, but also featured a talking drum chain that traveled from village to village in Gabon, Africa, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Earth Day 2000 sent world leaders the loud and clear message that citizens around the world wanted quick and decisive action on clean energy. Perhaps, as all of us around the globe celebrate Earth Day 2012, we...