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Leadership Team statement on treatment of immigrant children
...their families. Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not prevent them; for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” (Matthew 19:14). That children “such as these” – infants, toddlers, youngsters – reportedly have been subject to horrific overcrowding, hunger, lice infestations, sleeping on concrete floors, and other unhygienic and inhumane conditions is an assault on our human decency and fundamental moral values. It should have all Americans, as the prophets of old, rending our...
Ministry at the border: belleza (beauty) of binationality
...reads, “Juntos por amor a Nogales,” which translates, “United by the love of Nogales.” In some ways, the connections and movement between the two show that it still is one. An art piece titled, “Paseo de la Humanidad” by Taller Yonke along the border wall in Nogales. As I walk to the downtown port of entry several times a week to cross into Mexico, I encounter a visual sign of this fluidity — people walking toward the turnstile to Mexico,...
A journey to wider acceptance and love: Sister Tracey Horan and immigration
...I discerned a ministry change, my transformational experience in El Paso combined with the United States’ escalating fear-driven policies around immigrant exclusion led me back to the border. As Education Coordinator at the Kino Border Initiative, I am now part of a team of people who facilitate encounters that humanize and complicate perceptions around migration primarily through conversations between migrants and visitors at the migrant aid center and shelter in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. With each immersion experience, we commission another...
Reflecting on Valentine’s Day
...in action — which takes courage, sacrifice, strength.” C.S. Lewis, a Christian writer and theologian, also spoke of the different kinds of love. He identified agape as unconditional love. In biblical texts, originally written in Greek, the word agape is used to connote any kind of selfless love, whether between human beings or between humans and God. In the Catholic tradition, Eucharist is sometimes referred to as an agape meal. If you missed the original airing of the commercial, treat...
Rising to the Occasion
Throughout the Bible and throughout human history, there have always been persons who in a time of crisis or critical need rise to the occasion. Some are famous people and some are people whose names will not be known in the public arena. Sisters Janice Smith and Kay Manley (from left) volunteer serving lunch in the Providence Hall Dining Room. The sisters and staff members who volunteer to serve help curtail the spread of disease possible from buffet-style serving. Closer...
Lord if we ever need you, we need you now
...source and recourse of life. Breathe your life into our air and environment Let our earth be fertile and our talents fruitful Shine your sunlight on the seeds of life Rain down goodness and kindness to all humankind Birth your compassion into all human beings. So we will nourish others as we want to be treated. We give you thanks for all of our benefits May your Son’s Love heal our brokenness Trusting in You we will never be confounded....
April 4, 2021: Easter Sunday
...cast off most of the burial cloth in a heap and then, for a reason unknown to us, cast off the head and facial covering to a different spot in the tomb. The Son of God rose from the dead and He still had to thrust off the material that covered Him? What a surprising and reassuring confirmation of Christ’s divinity AND humanity! A miracle of resurrection and an everyday bundle of laundry. Hallelujah! He is Risen! And He remains...
Sister Ann Renee Maxwell
...of humor; she loved to tell jokes, and did you ever hear her cry like a baby? She could also imitate a train sound. We are aware of Sister Ann Renee’s love for bingo and all games of chance, her collection of jewelry of all kinds, her perfectly manicured fingernails — all these very human aspects of her life. But, let us consider how she lived out the corporal and spiritual works of mercy in her apostolic life of teaching...
Sister Rose Louise Schafer
Sister Rose Louise Schafer “Who shall find a Providence woman? She is far more precious than jewels.” (Adapted from Proverbs 31:10 by Sister Myra Rodgers, CDP) “Sister Rose Louise was a woman of nobility, the definition of which is human excellence, that which is illustrious, admirable, lofty and distinguished in values, conduct and bearing. As we saw and experienced Sister Rose Louise’s goodness, the dignity in her resonated with our respect and admiration,” said Sister Nancy Reynolds in her commentary...
Thanksgiving: Generosity with justice
...generous justice would include an approach to immigration based on the human dignity of all persons and not built on fear, stereotypes or greed. The list goes on and on … . In other words, we could use this observance of the Thanksgiving holiday to remind ourselves that generosity without justice may not be what Jesus calls us to live. Generosity with justice, it seems to me, connects us to the heart of the message of Jesus. Let us pray...
O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting? – Easter 2009
...takes the form of war, human trafficking, ecological devastation of planet Earth, extinction of species, genocide, starvation, ethnic cleansing — to say nothing of corporate greed. I feel the sharp sting of these and more. At the same time, I believe in the deepest part of me that “life is changed, not ended” in all of the above. I’ve experienced the continuing and intimate presence of loved ones who have died. I’ve been part of the waves of persons’ compassionate...
Sister Joan (Ruth Cecile) Klega
...over the flesh, the will power over physical infirmity, she was inspired and sustained by that noble woman and founder of this Congregation, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, whose high ideals matched with her own. The causes of human freedom and of social justice, to which so much of her life had been given, added a melodic luster to the rest of her life — a luster which will long be discernible among us all. Sister Joan left behind her a...