Search Results for label/Interfaith Power and Light
Getting too many results? To search for an exact phrase, try putting multiple word phrases in quotation marks (such as "Saint Mother Theodore") to narrow your results.
Immigration injustice: what can I do?
Even a brief scan of daily headlines describing how immigrants are being treated at the Southern borders of the U.S. can cause a person of faith to cringe and cry out: “What can I do?” I’m choosing not to be paralyzed into inaction. I have decided to act with purpose right where I stand. I attended an interfaith gathering sponsored by the Sisters of Providence and Terre Haute church leaders in early October. I am grateful to the organizers. They...
The Easter Triduum: celebrating our salvation story
...Christ. We light the Easter candle. We follow the Light into the church. We light our candles from Him. We share the light and we proclaim in song this new wonder that God has done. We next break open the Word. Old and New Testament Scriptures recall the history of salvation. We sing and pray and keep Vigil. And then after six weeks of silence, we break forth in Alleluias as the Gospel of Resurrection is about to be proclaimed....
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 Church teaches, in the light of the Gospel, that the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person and she works with determination for its abolition worldwide.” We are called to respect the human dignity of all persons. Those on death row are no exception. The Holy Father, in September 2022, invited us all to join him in praying for the global abolition of the death penalty. Sister Barbara...
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...
Everything is Connected – Our Consumption
...plastic particles themselves and the chemicals used in their manufacture. What Needs to Change? We need to move beyond consume-and-throwaway systems toward circular approaches that work within ecological limits. This means reusing, recycling and sharing materials and products. Governments must do more to make companies accountable for the impacts of their activities and supply chains. They also need to help consumers make sustainable choices, for example, through targeted taxation and requirements for clearer labeling on goods. Households and firms should...
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)
...for what God had made and given to him. Moses told the Hebrew people they were to eat unleavened bread and drink wine in preparation for the exodus from Egypt. It was a practical meal meant to nourish but also symbolize their humble and bittersweet circumstances as the meal was consumed in flight. There was no hanging around afterward. Boaz offered Ruth bread and invited her to dip it in the wine during their courtship; one commentary suggests that this...
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
...the many achievements of women within our society, to honor women’s strength and resilience in the face of many social challenges and to highlight women’s positive contributions to American family life and to other social and global communities. Strong Roots If National Women’s Day was initiated here by practical citizens for practical reasons, it also had some strong German roots particularly in the work of Clara Zetkin (1857-1933), a well-known feminist, activist and member of the German Social Democratic Party...
‘Othering’
...cannot take it all in at once. The word others has a long history in our language. But othering is new to me and took some time to absorb. The word othering was foreign to me. I had to resort to Mr. Google, online dictionaries, synonyms, etc. Looking at a word as a noun or a verb can help, and WordHippo will show examples. Othering is a phenomenon in which some individuals or groups are defined and labeled as not...