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Gloria Memering
...director and pastoral associate. Sister Gloria said she and her sisters worked in the melon fields for their uncle as children. “What I remember was that early in the morning, when the furrows were newly plowed, I loved walking barefoot in the cool earth,” Sister Gloria said. She added her favorite song is “Glow worm,” by the Mills Brothers. “That’s what my dad often called me, and my cousin could play it on the piano for us,” Sister Gloria said....
Susan Paweski
...the Liturgical Minister St. Catherine of Siena St. Lucy, St. Giles Parish in Oak Park, Illinois. She also assists with promoting the awareness of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin at many locations off campus. She has a master’s degree in education from Lewis University in Evanston, Illinois, in addition to a master’s degree in pastoral studies from Loyola University in Chicago. Sister Susan also has a master’s of arts degree in earth literacy from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College. She said she is...
The Philosophy of Fair Trade
...challenge facing the world” with poverty and economic justice following at 44 percent. However, with fair trade, everyone benefits. If you regularly shop at grocery stores, check out the produce aisles by looking for the fair trade label on items such as avocados, bananas, chocolate/cocoa, coffee, and tea. Fair trade is not limited to agricultural products. You should think about fair trade every time you shop. “Visibility of Fairtrade products has increased since 2021 for nearly all major product categories...
Witness
...the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” A ‘Teachable’ Moment 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...
Sister Margaret Heese (formerly Sister Margaret Bernard)
...told by some of her friends – stories known only to a few. Margaret talked Sister Barbara Bluntzer into getting her ears pierced. Sister Jean Fuqua felt honored that Margaret let her use the best sewing machine in the sewing room. Sisters Margaret Norris and Joseph Fillenwarth still can’t believe Margaret used the sewing machine to sew name labels on her clothes. As the youngest sister in a local community, band member Sister Joyce Brophy was given a pocket watch...
WVC adds ‘Real Organic Project’ certification
...protect the integrity of the organic label. Organic farming has always been based on “feed the soil, not the plant.” Young plants inside the greenhouse. Real organic farming relies on the microbial activity of the soil to slowly release nutrients to the plant. In recent years, many organic farmers have grown distraught over USDA decisions that have negated this fundamental truth, even though growing in soil is original to the USDA Organic standards. Further, rules have been overlooked regarding the...
Sister Florence Norton (formerly Sister Thomas Ann)
...was 94 years old and had been a Sister of Providence for 77 years. Sister Denise continued: However, when Florence celebrated her golden jubilees with her partners in ministry, the parishioners and staff of Our Lady of Grace Parish in Chicago, she herself chose the gospel just proclaimed. The central character of today’s gospel is Thomas, forever labeled as Doubting Thomas. Of all the gospels Florence could have chosen, why this one? It seems an unlikely choice for the woman...
June 2, 2024: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
...the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the word that comes to mind for most of us is probably “Eucharist.” It means “thanksgiving,” but we use it to refer to the real presence of Jesus with us. Let us consider a brief but certainly not comprehensive list of examples in Scripture where Divine Presence has been connected with bread and wine: In Genesis, Abel brought a sacrifice of the first fruits of the earth; a nonviolent offering to thank God...
The Injustice and Dehumanization of Experiencing Homelessness
...Can you spend a few minutes reflecting on your implicit (unconscious) and explicit (conscious) bias? Then think about expressions such as “Gee, I look like I’m a homeless person.” When examining your own biases and the social narratives you have heard, do you say, “They are experiencing homelessness?” or do you label them by saying “they are homeless?” If you spoke about homelessness to a friend or acquaintance, what would you be able to share with them after reading this?...
Musings on National Women’s Day
...extent human beings often judge one another by his or her friends or associates. To some extent, this has been true in evaluating the women’s movement. Some of its earliest advocates, such as Clara Zetkin, were very active in a movement that eventually transformed Germany into a socialist state. This label drew many to the cause, but it also repelled many. In the literature of the present day, one still detects charges of leftist thinking in explaining the women’s causes....
A note from Sister Barbara from her experience in the death chamber
...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 and all persons? I still stand by the statement I made at Will McCrory’s execution: My faith and the teachings of our Church compel me to say No! to the death penalty and to work to abolish it. Surely just as we know that God loves us always...
Sisters share message against ‘Big Beautiful Bill’
...be a moral failure for American society as a whole. We respectfully ask you to vote “no” on the budget reconciliation legislation, HR 1. Sincerely, His Eminence Cardinal Robert W. McElroy His Eminence Cardinal Joseph William Tobin, CSsR Archbishop of Washington, DC Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey Imam Jamal Rahman Rabbi Daniel Weiner Interfaith Community Sanctuary, Seattle, Washington Seattle, Washington The Rt. Reverend Philip N. LaBelle Bishop Episcopal Diocese of Olympia Reverend Douglas Avilesbernal, Executive Minister – Evergreen Baptist Association...