The Life - Our sister panelists consider: When have you engaged with people whose life experiences are vastly different from your own, and how did these interactions transform your long-held ideas about life?
Some 38 religious sisters emerged from two Missouri parishes where Sr. Rose Weidenbenner grew up. "These sisters have witnessed to me — and to all of us — how God's love and call leads us to be of service in many places," she writes.
"As younger women religious, we often find ourselves as minorities within our own communities: fewer in number, yet filled with the same passion and commitment of older generations," write Giving Voice members who attended LCWR 2024.
To keep the essence, the fire, of religious life ablaze, we have to live out the words of Luke's Gospel. We have to daily redefine for ourselves what it is that gives the impetus to launch out on an unknown journey.
On the eve of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, Sr. Nadieska Almeida from Cuba reflects on Mary's role as protector and source of hope for Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua. Mary has accompanied our history,’ she writes.
Founded in 1999 with Passionist Fr. Thomas Berry, this Vermont community strives to be earth conscious and demonstrate an appreciation and reverence of God's creations.
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The Nicaraguan government stripped the legal status of 26 Catholic congregations, the majority of them communities of women religious, whose ministries provided food and services for the elderly and poor.
GSR Today - For Presentation Sr. Joyce Meyer, the 2024 Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly was an image of standing before a door that we have been knocking on and now is squeakily opening.
