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Advent 2011
...those moments and recognize them when they happen and for what they are — the actions of Providence in our lives. We need to be ready to see, to understand, to step out to greet these daily movements of the Presence of God. We need to see because we need to respond — we need to each be a providence, a presence of compassion and generosity in whatever places and with whatever people we find ourselves. That’s the point of...
Father’s Day 2011
...avail. The little miss did NOT want to get out and look at the fountain — or at anything else apparently. Enter dad. First he promised a “fast ride in the stroller.” Nope. Then he tried bribery of more delicious sort — if she got into the stroller, she could have some fruit snacks. Still no movement from the car seat. Firmness was the next tactic employed. “You need to let daddy take you out of the car seat. It...
Principles of non-violence
Martin Luther King Jr. in 1966 Paging through the newspaper the other day, I came across an interview with Ambassador Andrew Young, a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. The interviewer asked Young many questions about his early days in the civil rights movement. Young’s responses were thoughtful, measured and obviously the product of a man who has spent a lifetime working on behalf of others. I’m glad I read the interview. But what truly caught me was the...
Sister Joan (Ruth Cecile) Klega
Sister Joan Klega “The winter solstice occurs once a year, when the tilt of Earth’s axis is oriented directly away from the sun, causing the sun to appear to reach its northern-most extreme. The name is derived from the Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still) because at the solstice, the sun stands in declination; that is, its apparent movement north or south comes to a standstill.” (quote by Sister Jan Craven) “A passage happened last Friday evening of...
Sisters fear Know Nothing agitation
Saint Mother Theodore Guerin faced the Know Nothing agitation with courage. Anti-Catholic sentiment was prevalent in the 1800s. An especially turbulent period was during the time that Mother Theodore Guerin lived in Indiana (1840 to 1856). Slanderous stories appeared in newspapers about young women being held against their will in the convent. Adding fuel to this charged environment were several political groups that advocated anti-immigration legislation and that were anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish. Known as the Know Nothing Party or Movement,...
Election and inauguration reflections
...us. Having lived through the civil rights movement, I am so happy to be alive to see this moment. This election tells me that transformation is wrought of many individual and group efforts that in time become a groundswell for change. It takes commitment for the long haul. Sister Mary Pat Cummings I was born in the mid twenties, grew up in the thirties and forties in New Albany, Indiana, a small Hoosier town on the Ohio River directly across...
Many SPs sign Declaration of Life
...abolishing the death penalty is a big movement in the Congregation and in the Church.” “This is an opportunity for us to express our position related to the death penalty in a very concrete way,” said General Officer Sister Joan Slobig. “It does not say the person should not be punished for the crime; it just says the death penalty is not an appropriate punishment for any crime.” Signed declarations are kept on file in the Office of Records. The...
Sister Paula Damiano
...think a whole lot about religious life. The 1960s also brought with it that movement toward service. President Kennedy had talked about the Peace Corps. There was that whole emphasis on giving to other people. By the time my senior year rolled around, people were talking about what colleges they would go to, et cetera, et cetera. As I thought about my future, that whole notion of religious life came back to me. The sisters who taught me in high...
Sister Barbara Bluntzer
...United States ports. Some were pilgrimages and others for the joy of marveling in God’s creation. She also taught in Oklahoma City during a time when the Civil Rights movement was causing dramatic changes and “loved it.” Planner? Organizer? When the Bluntzer family was planning a reunion recently, she was hoping she would be asked to take charge! The family reunion perhaps would have been successful with only 100 in attendance, but about 280 Bluntzer kin showed up for a...
Sister of Providence released from prison
...as faithful obedience to the Gospel call for love, mercy and justice.” Within a few minutes of leaving the prison facility, Sister Kathleen was wearing a “No War” button on her coat. “Did my one act of civil resistance, my spending six months in prison, close the SOA? Obviously not. The peace movement, I believe, is about expanding the circle of those who believe in an alternative to war, to murder, to massacres, to disappearances. Violence only begets more violence....
The new cosmology: an evolving universe
...evolutionary shifts marked by a new global consciousness or is it a diminishing sect in an ever-expanding universe? Teilhard maintained that not only are we to survive but we are to flourish. We are to lead the evolutionary trend in a forward movement into God. He urged Christians to … risk, get involved, to aim toward union with others, because the entire creation is waiting to give birth to God’s promise — the fullness of love. (Romans 8:19-20) We are...
Q and A: The new cosmology: a Providence perspective
...old cosmology will not help us do this, marked as it is by the inability to relate nature to the supernatural. Doctrines of Christology such as incarnation, grace, freedom and the Mystical Body, have lost relevance today because the Christ they present appears distant from the world as we know it. In evolutionary thought Christ is more intimately involved with all humans and with the movement of the universe into the future. Indeed the cosmos is centered in Christ and...