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Where Your Treasure Is
...by thick concrete walls and by a system that had labeled her as less than human. As Congress begins negotiations for the 2019 budget, we know the Trump Administration has requested more resources to remove beloved residents like Sonia from our communities. The administration’s requests include: A massive increase in immigration detention – to 51,379 people in detention across the country every day Funds to recruit and hire 1,000 additional ICE officers, and Funds to compensate more local police to...
Conscience, Candidates and Discipleship in Voting – Part two
...background of abortion, climate change and the culture of exclusion, it is clear that the faith-filled voter who seeks to be guided by Catholic social teaching is confronted by compelling moral claims that cut across the partisan and cultural divides of our nation. The pathway from these crosscutting moral claims to decisions on particular candidates is not a direct and singular one in Catholic teaching, rooted in one issue. For this reason, the drive to label a single issue preeminent...
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
...Officially Sister Mary was the volunteer coordinator and in that position interviewed volunteers and supervised their orientation. In addition, according to Sister Pat, Sister Mary assisted with the taking in and labeling of medications, restocking examination rooms, picking up supplies, cleaning the clinic and doing fund raisers. Sister Pat attributes their many returning clients to Sister Mary’s influence. Ever the gracious and generous woman, she did indeed ‘heal the oppressed,’” shared Sister Mary Roger. “Over the last five years, Sister...
Sister Jessica Vitente: Leading and being led to God
No one can deny Sister Jessica Vitente’s enthusiasm. She’s exuberant and offers a warm embrace to a wide variety of people and ideas. No one can miss that she loves being a woman of deep faith. That she is proud of her Filipino heritage and of her identity as a Sister of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Sister Jessica Vitente, left, spends time with college students at the Newman Center at the University of Evansville where Sister Jessica serves as the...
Sister Joni Luna professes final vows, Sister Jessica Vitente professes first vows
...Vitente enter to profess their vows. Sister Joni Luna, left, and Sister Jessica Vitente, right, on the day of their vows. Both dressed according to their cultural heritage, Sister Joni’s Native American and Sister Jessica’s Filipino. Sister Jessica poses for a selfie with Sister Kay Manley before the ceremony. Sister Joni, right, places her hand on the Bible as she commits to life as a vowed Sister of Providence. Sister Lisa Stallings holds the Bible and Sister Dawn Tomaszewski looks...
Celebrating the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
...to the Sacred Heart that was part of the heritage that they had brought with them from France. I learned that it could be traced back to the early Fathers of the Church like St. Ambrose, St. Augustine of Hippo and martyrs like St. Justin and St. Cyprian. Deep Devotion Sacred Heart Grove at Saint Mary–of-the-Woods The devotion spread even further through the revelations of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. The church encouraged the spread of the devotion by granting approval...
Journals and Letters week 31: Do good to all for the love of God
...in creed or heritage or race. I see the Sisters of Providence carrying on that openness to loving care for everybody to this day. That is so refreshing to me. I notice some churches and religious people only serving their own little community. They leave out those they see as sinners (unless of course they think they have a chance of converting them). Even today, people don’t all have to be from the same cookie cutter mold in order to...
White Violet Center interns: Meet the fabulous four!
...up everything. My experience is at Tir na nÓg, a small celtic heritage farm in Maine, where I have had the opportunity to test my hand at a diverse range of skills from carpentry to butchery to gardening to foraging. I have worked extensively in our gardens as well as with our livestock, knowing that caring for each with rigor is an important part of creating a healthy earth and a healthy diet. I have worked in carpentry, constructing sets...
Sister Patricia McIntyre (formerly Sister Elaine)
...Rosemarie – fondly called Rosie – recalls that she and Patty “were always playing together – hopscotch, walking in the woods or the orchard or the yard. Patty loved to have fun and do silly things, pretend and make believe.” Oldest sister Marjorie – fondly called Margie – remembers Patty’s love of music, her beautiful singing voice, making music with neighbors, her contagious giggle and her pride in her Irish heritage. Margie also remembers that, as an eighth-grader, Patty was...
Sister Gloria Memering: Bringing the music
...in 2011, all but five years were spent teaching music in schools and engaging in parish music ministry. These days she speaks of a “happy retirement with opportunities for sharing music weekly with sisters and friends in health care, serving on receptionist duty and doing a few little jobs that my limited sight allows.” And she is grateful for “the rich heritage of music that we enjoy in the Chapel.” (Originally published in the Summer 2020 issue of HOPE magazine.)...
Sister Marilu Covani, passing on the spirit of Encuentro
...means to be church. This decades-long series of gatherings started in 1972 with I Encuentro when the bishops who returned from Vatican Council II realized that, having described the church as “the People of God,” the people needed a way to make themselves heard. As the U.S. Hispanic population continued to grow, the Encuentro method of “see-judge-act-celebrate” was ideal for bringing their heritage into a new focus. Encounter draws Sister Marilú During the 1980s, Sister Marilú Covani, SP, at that...