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Week 5: Daily reflections with Saint Mother Theodore Guerin
...Bishop de la Hailandiére with love and respect. • How do I strive to see my “enemies” with eyes of love? Extra Challenge: Listen to the On Being episode with Rep. John Lewis, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Saturday, April 1 “Let me witness the vengeance you take on them, for to you I have entrusted my cause!” – Jeremiah 11:20 “No fear nor human respect ever made her give in to any injustice.” – Sister Mary Eudoxie...
Providence spirituality in action: Sister Kathleen Desautels and 8th Day Center for Justice
...I found myself with the 8th Day staff and friends from many social justice organizations throughout Chicago in a tense nonviolent direct action outside the Federal Building in Chicago. Our group was blocking the door of the building in protest of the Guantanamo Bay prison human rights abuses. Chicago Police gave repeated orders that we would be arrested if we persisted. That’s when I saw Sister Kathleen. She spoke to the police and then to those taking part in the...
Celebrating 8th Day Center for Justice
...was thrilled to find myself one-on-one with our community’s very own 5-foot-2 social justice giant. Kak, as many of her friends call her, was someone I had met and heard tales about. I knew her as the sister who had spent time in prison for crossing the line in a protest at the School of the Americas, a military training school known for graduating perpetrators of hundreds of human rights abuses throughout Latin America. But I never had the chance...
‘Green’ Investments
...focuses on environmental (reducing pollution), social (human rights), and governance (stopping corruption) issues. It is an integrative investing strategy, and Impact investing, which actively seeks positive impact around environmental and social effects. Impact investing involves making a difference in measurable ways while at the same time growing one’s money. These investments tend to be more in the private markets, such as private equity, venture capital and debt, fixed incomes and infrastructure. Adoption of these sustainable investment possibilities is expected to...
A Prayer for Arbor Day, April 24, 2020
...rights of the poor, the original peoples and the least of our brothers and sisters, where their voices can be heard and their dignity advanced. All: May our efforts help realize the dream. Leader: I dream of an Amazon region that can preserve its distinctive cultural riches, where the beauty of our humanity shines forth in so many varied ways. All: May our efforts help realize the dream. Leader: I dream of Christian communities capable of generous commitment, incarnate in...
Let us be the people Jesus describes, as he sends his disciples out on Mission
...those who experience racism and prejudice in our society. This is an unusual time to be alive – and an unusual time to be renewing vows as a Sister of Providence. A friend recently sent me a Tweet in which someone said “I always wondered what it was like to live during the times of the Civil War, Spanish Flu, Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement, Watergate and the Dust Bowl. Not all at once, mind you, but ya know …...
Statement: Sisters of Providence leadership makes statement on gun control issues, sends letters to editors
...one else in this Congregation has the in-your-face, up-front-and-personal, first-hand experience as I, of the results of assault rifle violence. I, personally, have removed shrapnel and tissue and sown up and dressed the wounds of hundreds of young men, and assisted in pre-op and operating rooms to put them back together, piece by piece. Nothing justifies these types of weapons, short of war or imminent invasion and then it’s a forced bad choice.” So where is the humanity in all...
The Christmas story: new and old
...be afraid…” as you begin to pray not looking upwards but instead looking around you and see who needs you. What child is this? This is you. This is the person Jesus Christ has given to humankind. YOU: the baby, the teenager, the young adult, the middle aged and the wisdom figure. We are the gift; the many gifts to one another. We are co-creators of humankind. God has given us the story of the Nativity, and we often keep...
Cherishing creation
...a small but determined voice. “They eat mosquitoes!” I thought of this incident immediately as I began to reflect on the spirituality that underpins the Sisters of Providence commitment to care for all creation. Bats and cats and alpacas and all manner of soils, waters, plants and animals are our friends. They are not simply created matter over which we humans have dominion or even stewardship. But truly (and grandly), they and we are members of one interrelated and interdependent...
What is Eco-Justice?
...economically challenged communities of color who were disproportionately exposed to polluting industries. Environmental justice addresses connections between the well-being of earth and the human community with special focus upon those who are disproportionately affected by environmental degradation because of economics, race, gender and age. While Environmental Justice is most commonly used, Eco-Justice more aptly describes the relationship between the systemic problems facing individuals, communities and the natural world. “Ec,” whose roots rest in the Latin word OIKOS – refers to...
Holy and profane
Holy and human: blog post author and postulant Emily TeKolste in her volunteer ministry in the Mission Advancement office It’s not often that I spend time with my extended family in public. Sometimes, these interactions remind me how differently much of the world views Catholic sisters compared to my experience. This weekend, I went to my cousin’s high school graduation party. Partway through the party, one of my uncles started asking me to bless him. Another made a comment about...
Sisters of Providence celebrate Senior Jubilees
...Freelance Editor (1984-85), DeKalb, Ill.: Teacher, Northern Illinois University (1985-86), Clinton, N.Y.: Assistant Professor, Hamilton College (1986-88), Wayne, Neb.: Associate Professor of English, Wayne State College (1988-91), Wayne, Neb.: Humanities Division Head, Wayne State College (1991-93), Wayne, Neb.: Humanities Associate Professor, Wayne State College (1993-94), Wayne, Neb.: Professor of English, Wayne State College (1994-2009), Wayne, Neb.: Freelance editor, write (2010-14), and Wayne, Neb.: Freelance editor, grant writer, volunteer (2014-16). Sister Mary Catherine Keene is a native of Indianapolis. Currently, she...