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Celebrate 2016 with the SPs!
...and small. You help us change lives through your presence, your prayers and your gifts. You help us bring love and hope to those who have little or none. You join us as we strengthen our world one challenge, one community and one person at a time. The sisters pray daily in gratitude for you and for your needs. You and your loved ones will be remembered in a special novena of Masses during the Christmas season. As I close...
Devotion at a global level: Sister Mary Rita Griffin
...individuals from Australia, Portugal, and a number of African and South American countries as well as more local contacts. In addition to daily visits to the shrine, coordinating an annual novena to Our Lady of Providence, and deepening her own devotion to Mary through spiritual reading, a big part of Sister Mary’s role is to respond to prayer requests made through the National Shrine of Our Lady of Providence page online. Sister Mary estimates that she responds to an average...
The Joy of Vatican II
...o’clock Mass, rosary in hand. Both of them had favorite novenas and of course, our family said the rosary every night, my parents and the three oldest of the seven kids taking turns leading a decade. Yet these warm and sweet family memories are tempered by other aspects of pre-Vatican II culture. Before Vatican II everything was black and white. Everyone had a place on a pyramid that spanned heaven and earth. At the top was the pope, followed by...
Sister Mary Eleanor Galvin
...and a resurrected Christ. Yes, I am minister, and because I am, I hope, like John, to say of those to whom I minister one can show no greater love than to lay down her life for her friends. Sister Mary Eleanor Galvin, SP “A child of Christmas, born in Advent, dying during the novena for Christmas, buried on the vigil of the Wise Men, now Mary Eleanor lives forever in that temperate valley where there are no seasons save...
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 righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” A ‘Teachable’ Moment 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...
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)
...union of King David’s great-grandparents (and ancestors to Jesus) illustrates not only God’s love for each person but how that love is to be shared by all, especially those who are labeled “other”. Throughout the Old Testament, one of the most common consequences for the ancient people straying from the will of God was famine in the land — a lack of grain and grapes. Paul was the apostle who wrote the first scriptural eucharistic institution narrative and made clear...
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?...