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Nov 28, 2024 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Juliet Mousseau |Susan Rose Francois |Nancy Sylvester
It would be easy to see religious life in the United States as something from another time, as a vocation whose time has come and gone. But a group of 10 millennial and Generation X sisters have a few things to say about that.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
ncronline.org | Dan Stockman |Juliet Mousseau |Susan Rose Francois |Nancy Sylvester
It would be easy to see religious life in the United States as something from another time, as a vocation whose time has come and gone. But a group of 10 millennial and Generation X sisters have a few things to say about that.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Susan Rose Francois
Dear gentle readers:I would like to invite you into a thought experiment that has taken hold of my prayer, dreams, and wonderings of late. It is related to the perennial conversations about vowed religious life, particularly during this change of era, often described as one of diminishment, scarcity or even a crisis of vocations.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Oliver Samson |Thomas Scaria |Susan Rose Francois |Margaret Cessna
Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing? Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago? —Pete SeegerFacebook reminded me that today is Jeannette's birthday. She died a year ago and her Facebook account is still active. The only good news about that is that every year I will be reminded to think about her on her birthday. Jeannette was my dishwashing partner. It was the '60s, and my first mission after college.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Oliver Samson |Thomas Scaria |Susan Rose Francois |Margaret Cessna
As I move into the golden years and think back, it is clear to me that I was formed in mind and soul pretty much by the '60s. (I always wanted a necklace of puka beads. Never happened. Too late now.)As young teens — as children, really — these students of ours witnessed the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. They grieved mightily and shed tears without shame. And for the rest of their days with us, they wondered why.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria |Susan Rose Francois |Oliver Samson
Sr. Pinky B. Barrientos, a member of Daughters of St. Paul, was a junior nun when she and other sisters joined the massive crowd on EDSA (Epifanio de los Santos Avenue) in 1986. The late Manila Archbishop Cardinal Jaime Sin had just appealed to Filipinos in a broadcast statement to go to the military and police headquarters along EDSA to back the defense secretary and the armed forces chief who just withdrew their support of President Ferdinand Marcos.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
ncronline.org | Thomas Scaria |Nicole Trahan |Susan Rose Francois
I clearly remember the day in 1985 when I gathered with my eighth-grade classmates for our confirmation retreat at the historic Sacred Heart Chapel in Bowie, Maryland. I remember receiving a letter I received from my older brother Michael, my confirmation sponsor, encouraging me to grow in my relationship with God and to embrace my responsibility as a Christian to serve the common good.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Thomas Scaria |Nicole Trahan |Susan Rose Francois
I clearly remember the day in 1985 when I gathered with my eighth-grade classmates for our confirmation retreat at the historic Sacred Heart Chapel in Bowie, Maryland. I remember receiving a letter I received from my older brother Michael, my confirmation sponsor, encouraging me to grow in my relationship with God and to embrace my responsibility as a Christian to serve the common good.
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Aug 10, 2023 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Dan Stockman |Susan Rose Francois
We often say in religious life circles that we stand on the shoulders of the women who went before us. In fact, there's a song to that effect which we use frequently in our rituals of remembrance and prayer.
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Mar 20, 2023 | 
globalsistersreport.org | Oliver Samson |Susan Rose Francois
God's creative act of love binds us together with God, with the human community and with all of creation. We are inextricably linked and connected in goodness and love. As Pope Francis wrote in Fratelli Tutti, "We were created for a fulfillment that can only be found in love."Yet God wasn't finished. God isn't finished. The story continues. At Christmas we celebrated the radical act of the Incarnation, through which Jesus identifies with all human beings and shares our messy reality. God is with us.
