This is the last of the six images used by Sr. Pat Murray at the annual assembly of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) this past August. Image six is: Listen for the Long Note. Sister Pat recalled a seminar on leadership in which she participated some years ago. At the end of one session, a fiddler played a [...]
This is a continuation of Sr. Pat Murray's talk at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) last August. Her fifth point is: Engage in web-watching and web-weaving. Sr. Pat referenced the Mennonite theologian and peace activist, John Paul Lederach, who used the term "moral imagination" to describe something "which calls people beyond what is immediately apparent and visible." Lederach [...]
It's not often that one has an evening of complete wonder and awe. Yet, a group of friends and I had just that on the afternoon and evening of September 29th. We were at Powell Symphony Hall in St. Louis for the final concert of the St. Louis Jesuits. I heard it was sold out in record time and so [...]
Continuing in the presentation from Sister Pat Murray, IBVM, at the annual Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) I write about her fourth point: "Celebrate our luxurious cultural diversity." She asks the the question of religious leaders: "How can we bring a positive contribution to the challenge of global intercultural living? " She suggests that congregations "demonstrate a new way [...]
In her presentation at the annual LCWR assembly, Sr. Pat Murray, IBVM gave six images for leadership in a global world. I have written about the first two of them. This one is the third: Embrace Vulnerability. She was speaking about religious life and our institutions and how we are experiencing a greater fragility and vulnerability. She said: "In a [...]
In a previous post I wrote about the keynote address at the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) held in Arizona by Sr. Pat Murray, IBVM. In that address she listed six images, the second of them is: Be present at the borderlands. There are many people today who want to help those fleeing their country's borders for a safe [...]
At the 2019 Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) assembly the keynote address was given by Sister Pat Murray, IBVM. It was a powerful reflection on religious leadership. She began with some opening remarks on our globalized world and on how the face of consecrated religious life is changing. She quoted Pope Francis who "expressed his hope for a growth [...]
Oblate Sister of Providence Sr. Marcia Hall is producing a documentary which hopes to promote vocations in the African American Community. About eight years ago she was serving as her community's vocation director and attending a seminar where black Catholic parents shared their feelings about their children entering religious life--and they weren't happy about it. She knew she had to [...]
Sister Rosa Nguyen is a Sister of Providence from Mother Joseph Province in Seattle, WA. She ministers at Providence High School in Burbank, California. She has ministered there for more than four years but she is the only remaining Sister of Providence working there today. She grew up in a Catholic family in Viet Nam and entered the Sisters of [...]
Most of us are familiar with the crisis at our southern border. It's in the news everyday and the rhetoric surrounding it grows more hateful. It might be difficult for some people to believe everything they hear, but when photos of kids in cages and adults packed in like sardines in a wire-fenced can are shown on our TV screens, [...]
