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Senior jubilarians – 80 years and counting
...to be part of this effort in a special way, in a unique manner. You are at that time of life that social psychologists label “generative” – that is, it is your special gift to encourage and bring forth the gifts of others. Your gift to offer is that of wisdom, wisdom acquired by your having met life’s challenges, by years of fidelity to prayer and fidelity to the responsibilities of membership, to communal living, to lives of meaningful ministry....
“Creating Currents of Change” in Memphis
...positive — the love engaged against hate, the seeds that are sown to grow justice. Lawson called us to reject the climate of current public discourse that labels and divides. He said, “We are not primarily white or black, conservative or liberal. We are primarily human.” He lamented the continued influence of racism, sexism, violence and plantation capitalism in public discussion today. Lawson urged us to find a different language outside the fear built up by politics and media —...
St. Joseph Lake history photo album
Wheelchairs on the dock! 1982 infirmary picnic. Another photo from the 1982 infirmary picnic. A more recent photo of Sister Jean Fuqua next to the sign marking the area surrounding the lake with its new name, Fuqua Park. The final shovel-fulls of dirt are removed allowing the water to move into the newly expanded area of the lake in 1981. The label on this photo on the scrapbook album: HATS OFF TO THE CREW This handsome crew spent a hot...
Celebrating Sister Joni as she professes first vows on June 26
Buenas dias! Bienvenidos a la Madre, las hermanas y el hermano y otros miembros de la familia y tambien a todos amigos y amias de Joni. Good morning too, to all Sisters of Providence, Providence Associates and visitors. The scriptures proclaimed today are those designated for the 13th Sunday of Ordinary time – not scripture that Joni has chosen. Yet, as I prayed these scriptures, it seems Providence has gifted appropriate ones for this celebration – for Joni’s first profession...
Quotations from reflections given at General Chapter 2016
...we begin to put aside all the divisions in our hearts and our words? Our labels: Conservative-Liberal; Democrat-Republican; Gay-Straight; Christian-Muslim; Rich-Poor. What if instead we see from that new lens: the lens of the Gospel values demanded right now. Not the least of which are Love—Justice—Mercy.” —Sister Ann Sullivan “We will wash one another’s feet. We will probably need to perform this cleansing of one another more than once. Yet we have promised one another we will.” —Sister Denise Wilkinson...
In memory of …
...informing all residents that all roads in the area had to be named and labeled in case of emergency. A photo of Sister Mary Esther Lane taken in 1979 at Yosemite National Park. In Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Village, many residents who lived on one street decided they had to name it “Mary Lane.” The street was eventually changed to “Mary Lane Road.” “I understand that Mary Esther loved taking visitors over there to show them the road that is named after...
Sister Agnes Clare Buckley
...would sit with the dying at Marian Manor. She said she was asked to do that and she loved it. A number of priests she knew from St. Rose were patients at the manor during her time there and she visited them faithfully, often making rounds at bedtime.” Sister Jane Iannaccone recalled that “sister spent a lot of time in and out of the hospital, both as an inpatient and outpatient and I believe her ministry was to the other...
Where Your Treasure Is
Sister Tracey listens as Elmer Pena, the husband of Sonia Avile, speaks. The last time I saw Sonia, she joined us in the upper room at Christ Church Cathedral downtown in Indianapolis on March 6. That day, 19 Faith in Indiana leaders prepared to risk arrest in a non-violent direct action mourning the inability of our Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers and all 11 million immigrants who live, work, pay taxes and worship in our country....
Conscience, Candidates and Discipleship in Voting – Part two
...the very future of humanity, Both abortion and the environment are core life issues in Catholic teaching, and The designation of either of these issues as the preeminent question in Catholic social teaching at this time in the United States will inevitably be hijacked by partisan forces to propose that Catholics have an overriding duty to vote for candidates that espouse that position. Recent electoral history shows this to be a certainty. The question of preeminence is further clouded by...
Witness
...the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” 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 persons? Surely just as we know that God loves us always and is never far from us, so are we...
Sister Mary (Mary Agatha) Carlton
...Indianapolis. “After a well deserved sabbatical at Notre Dame University in 1989, Sister Mary returned to Boston for six months to care for her dying mother. After that time, she served three more years as a pastoral associate, this time at St. Joseph Parish, Lebanon, Ind. Sister Mary’s last full-time mission was three years as an employment training specialist for Goodwill Industries of Central Indiana. Goodwill had a job training program that was organized to prepare people who were physically...
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...and sacred spaces of the Congregation. Simply put — without our donors, we could not continue our mission to bring love, mercy and justice to people in need. More easy ways to make a difference Do you search the web? Try Good Search! Good Search donates a portion of its advertising search revenue to your favorite charity every time you use it to look something up. You can earn a penny every time you search the internet. This may sound...