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Written by Lolín Menéndez, rscj
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A photo tapestry by Lolín Menéndez:
In Congo, green is all around -
a land truly green, and abundant
in life, lots of new life...
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Written by Ann Conroy, RSCJ
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Religious Life - Then, Now, Now What ? was the title of
a gathering with young adult women held at The College of New Rochelle
on Saturday, October 27. This was a follow up to last spring’s meeting,
held in Greenwich, CT, which focused on a panel of five young adult
students addressing the topics of Religion and Spirituality.
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Written by RSCJ.org
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Carli Carolei loves to milk cows. She spends two afternoons a week, after school, in the barn prepping a herd of 26 cows, moving the milking machine around, collecting and piping the milk to a stainless steel holding tank. She’s a wisp of a girl, barely a teenager, flitting among the restless animals as they lap up their evening meal. Carli helps to turn grass into cheese at Sprout Creek Farm.
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Written by Tom Dodd
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In October Living Wages volunteers Tom Dodd, Ed Prendergast, and Jerry Hoskins along with Bob Crittenden, Betsy Hartson, RSCJ, Alumna of St. Charles Susie Bleyaert from Petoskey Michigan, and Kit Collins, RSCJ traveled to New Orleans to help the city in a small way.
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Written by Margo Morris, rscj and Georgie Blaeser, rscj
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During the week of July 23-28, 2006 14 Network students and 17 “Green Teens” from the cities of Poughkeepsie and Beacon, NY joined together for a week long experience of learning the skills of carpentry and masonry.
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Written by Lolín Menéndez, rscj
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I have a friend
who collects heart-shaped stones. So one day while traveling in Rwanda,
I gathered several for her. We had stopped to admire a magnificent
view, one of the many that each bend in the road unfolds in this
country of “the thousand hills.”
This
time, though, my mind was on another stone, a huge one, in the heart of
the government of Rwanda — the “refoulement.” or forced repatriation,
of the Congolese refugees in the country.
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Written by RSCJ.org
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CEDC
was honored to welcome a delegation of Iraqi Women representing diverse
backgrounds, views and faith traditions – 14 of which stayed at CEDC.
The women, a remarkable and inspiring group, came to Washington to
speak to the media and official Washington about what is happening in
their country.
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Written by Nance O'Neil, rscj
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This
little lad is the son of Tigor Azaz Nainggolan who was a lay
participant at the 2000 General Chapter. In Joigny, Tigor asked the
capitulants to pray that his wife Tiar and he would have a child. If it
were a girl she would be named Madeleine Sophie. This little fellow is
Yusuf Madeleino!
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Written by Margo Morris, rscj
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Where does everything begin? Think
of something you walk on or at least something that supports what you
walk on everyday. It's underneath every roadway, sidewalk, racetrack
and parking lot, every chem-lawn, swimming pool, subway, and stadium. BIG HINT: it's underneath grass. Getting it? DIRT! Here
at Sprout Creek Farm we call it soil.
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Written by RSCJ.org
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When Sister
Mary Pat White and Sacred Heart Associate Kristi Laughlin left
California in mid-June for a post-9/11 journey to Afghanistan, they
wanted to bring to the people of that country a message of
reconciliation, peace and hope. "What
I found was a people who had incorporated reconciliation into the very
fiber of their hope for a healed, safe and prosperous Afghanistan,”
Sister White said in an interview after her return. “I met a people
working peacefully with a courage that outstrips anything I could ever
have conceived of."
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Written by RSCJ.org
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Sister
Anne Montgomery’s quest for nonviolent solutions to the world’s
problems has led to her "ministry of presence" in the West Bank. It
was April 23, 2002. Sr. Anne Montgomery RSCJ was hunkered down with
other Christian Peacemakers in an apartment in Bethlehem during the
standoff at the Church of the Nativity, where some 200 armed
Palestinians had taken refuge against advancing Israeli troops.
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Written by Motherhouse staff in Rome
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In the early 1970’s, the Society of the Sacred Heart sold its large
Motherhouse in Rome, in favor of moving to smaller and simpler
quarters. Excess funds from the sale of the property were designated
for the most poor and marginalized people in countries where we serve.
The commitment to share in this way became known as “The Solidarity
Fund”, and continues as such to this day.
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Written by RSCJ.org
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Sylvia
R. Jordan has been committed to the children and families of the West
Grove of Coconut Grove, Florida for the past thirty years. She began
working in the Grove as a college student and has never left. Everyone
in the community knows and loves her; she is now serving the third
generation of West Grove children.
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Written by RSCJ.org
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In
the twenty five years since she graduated from Forest Ridge, Linda
Haydock, SNJM, has worked unceasingly for Social Justice. In her days
as a Campus minister at Holy Names Academy, Linda travelled with her
students to El Salvador and Kenya where she challenged them to a
rigorous and unsentimental analysis of the inequities they were seeing.
Now, as Director of the Intercommunity Peace and Justice Center in
Seattle, WA., she has expanded the scope of her teaching mission.
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Written by RSCJ.org
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As
archivist for the Society’s U.S. Province, Sister Margaret Phelan is
used to dealing with little-known information. She’s also developed a
high degree of patience.
Working with more than 1300 boxes of material in the Society’s archives
in St. Louis – all of it stored and catalogued with care – has given
her an intimate knowledge of the Society’s history, its members and
their work.
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Written by RSCJ.org
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Frannie
Glasser recently completed a 3-year term as Executive Director of St.
Madeleine Sophie's Center in El Cajon, CA., a center for
developmentally disabled adults. The first lay director of SMSC,
Frannie brought to her work a strong expertise in rehabilitation and
clear understanding of the Society's mission and values (she attended
Sacred Heart Schools from the age of eight until she graduated from
Manhattanville).
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Storyline
One of the hardest things about our busy lifestyles is being present to those around us. One reason I’ve taken the pilgrimage to Guatemala the last two years is because as a pilgrim I am able to be present to where I am and I am open to being transformed. In this way being a pilgrim feels like meditation to me. It helps me see God in other people and it helps me see the barriers in my own heart. This leads to compassion and concern for the people of Guatemala rather than complete despair. And it is easy for me to despair.
Beyond Borders
The Sacred Heart International Summer Service Project now offers two sites – Mexico and Louisiana. Come serve, live, work and have fun as part of an international group of young adults 18-28. Click here for more info.
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