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Monday, 13 December 2004 |
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Six hundred fans of Cokie Roberts,
journalist, author and Sacred Heart alum, turned out on the evening
December 13 in St. Louis to hear her speak about her most recent book
at a public event sponsored by the Religious of the Sacred Heart,
Associated Alumnae/i of the Sacred Heart, the Missouri Historical
Society, and Left Bank Books, an independent bookstore in St. Louis.
The talk, on Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation,
which Roberts dedicated to the Religious of the Sacred Heart, was held
at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park, followed by a book
signing.
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Wednesday, 01 December 2004 |
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Sprout Creek Farm,
an educational ministry of the Society of the Sacred Heart, U.S.
Province, was awarded the 2004 Business Excellence Award in the
agriculture business category by the Duchess County Economic
Development Corp. The farm is in LaGrange, New York, near Poughkeepsie.
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Wednesday, 01 December 2004 |
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Carolyn
Osiek, rscj, received an award for “Outstanding Service in Mentoring”
at the Society of Biblical Literature, where she was also installed as
the organization's president for the coming year. The Society of Biblical Literature, a 123-year-old organization of biblical scholars from the United States and Canada, has 6,000 members.
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Written by Kathleen Hughes, rscj
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
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Kathleen Hughes, rscj, speaking
at an award ceremony to honor her contributions to Catholic liturgy,
cited problems in contemporary liturgical celebrations from her point
of view. Sister Hughes, former professor at Catholic Theological Union
in Chicago and longtime member of the ICEL advisory council
(International Commission on English in the Liturgy), received the
Frederick R. McManus Award in Atlanta on October 15 from the Federation
of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions.
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
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Maureen Chicoine, rscj, was installed October 31 as pastoral
coordinator of two parishes in San Bernardino, California. Some called
it “the future of the church,” according to a report by Sally Furay, rscj, who attended the event. “This is the future of the church and we are on the cutting edge, “
said a Religious of the Sacred Heart who attended the installation
ceremony on October 31, 2004, for Maureen Chicoine, rscj, as pastoral
coordinator of Christ the King and Our Lady of Fatima parishes in San
Bernardino, California.
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Written by Kathleen Hughes, rscj
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Friday, 12 November 2004 |
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Dear Mr. President, I am writing you as the national leader of a congregation of Roman
Catholic sisters, the Society of the Sacred Heart. We are an
international religious order of women with 3,500 sisters in 45
countries worldwide. Our sisters work in universities, secondary and
elementary schools; with handicapped children and adults; in popular
education centers in rural and urban areas; with migrants, indigenous
people, and refugees; in parishes and retreat centers; in prisons; in
advocacy work, especially with women and children; as teachers,
administrators, lawyers, nurses, doctors, artists, writers, therapists,
pastoral counselors, spiritual directors, and social workers. Our
mission is to discover and reveal God's love in the heart of the world.
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Written by Kathleen Hughes, rscj
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Thursday, 11 November 2004 |
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U.S. Veterans Day and the 147th birthday of Janet Stuart!
Dear Friends, Colleagues and Associates of the Society,
I want to provide for you a first hand account of what happened at the
Society's Open Assembly November 3-7, though I am so aware that we
actually had four different simultaneous gatherings with a lot of
commonalities and a lot of differences. So this is a report of the
whole colored by my participation with the Chicago, Omaha, Detroit, and
St. Louis/St. Charles Area RSCJ.
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Thursday, 28 October 2004 |
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Judith
Garson, rscj, received the Spirit of Service Award from St. John's
University at the annual President's Dinner, held at the
Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan on October 28. Sister Garson has serves as
executive director of Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health
Service in East Harlem since 1996.
In presenting the
award, the Rev. Donald J. Harrington, president of St. John's
University, said, “Sister Judith has become a well-known and beloved
figure in the East Harlem community, a beacon of hope to many,
especially new immigrants and those marginalized by society, providing
spiritual comfort and practical assistance in a broad spectrum of
areas.”
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Friday, 15 October 2004 |
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Sister
Kathleen Hughes has been named the recipient of the 2004 Frederick R.
McManus Award for her contributions to Catholic liturgy. The award,
which is given annually, will be presented October 15 in Orlando at the
annual meeting of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Commissions.
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Friday, 01 October 2004 |
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Sister Mary T. Clark
received the distinguished alumna award from the Country Day School of
the Sacred Heart, Bryn, Mawr, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 17. Further,
a book of St. Augustine's letters has been dedicated to Sister Clark,
“great friend, scholar and religious,” by Ronald Teske, S.J., of
Marquette University.
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Wednesday, 15 September 2004 |
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Sister
Sally Furay, rscj, is the 2004 recipient of the Bernard E. Witkin
Award, given by the Law Library Justice Foundation of San Diego County.
The award recognizes a member of the San Diego legal community “for
civic leadership and excellence in the teaching, practice, enactment,
or adjudication of the law.”
Sister Furay is a former law
professor, academic vice president and provost and the University of
San Diego and a consultant to academic institutions.
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Wednesday, 01 September 2004 |
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An
article by Sister Jane O’Shaughnessy, RSCJ, about the Catholic church
in China appears in the September, 2004, issue of St. Anthony
Messenger. Sister O’Shaughnessy was a Sacred Heart Associate when she
made her first visit to Taiwan in 1998, living in community with
Religious of the Sacred Heart and immersing her self in Chinese
culture.
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Sunday, 01 August 2004 |
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Seven
Religious of the Sacred Heart participated in an effort by members of
Catholic religious orders in Uganda to persuade that country’s
government to act swiftly to end an 18-year war against rebels in the
north and alleviate the suffering of some 1.6 million people who have
been uprooted from their homes in the conflict.
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Sunday, 11 July 2004 |
Jane
O'Shaughnessy and Mary Frohlich professed first vows in the Society of
the Sacred Heart at a ceremony July 11 in the chapel of Woodlands
Academy, Lake Forest, Illinois. Sister O'Shaughnessy lived and worked
with RSCJ in Taiwan off and on between 1998 and 2001 and worked with
young women from China in Sophia House of Studies in the Philippines.
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Thursday, 01 July 2004 |
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Nineteen RSCJ
celebrated their Golden Jubilee in June with a pilgrimage to historic
sites in the United States Province and a Mass at the Shrine of Saint
Philippine Duchesne in St. Charles, Missouri, during which the
Jubilarians renewed their vows.
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Thursday, 24 June 2004 |
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Nearly
three decades of service by RSCJ in the Diocese of Venice, Florida, are
the subject of an article by Heather Felton in the June 24 edition of
The Florida Catholic . The ministry in LaBelle, Florida, will come to an end this summer.
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Friday, 11 June 2004 |
Two first-place awards at the Catholic Press Association Awards Dinner on May 28 went to a book by Sister Barbara E. Bowe,
Biblical Foundations of Spirituality: Touching a Finger to the Flame.
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Friday, 04 June 2004 |
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An article by Sister Diane Roche
on Haiti, “getting back to normal,” appears in the June 4 issue of
National Catholic Reporter. “Last week, our community of Sacred Heart
sisters traveled from Verrettes to Port au Prince for a meeting, and I
found myself thinking, “Thank God, things are getting back to normal,”
she wrote. “At the same time, I am new enough to Haiti to find ‘normal’
somewhat shocking.”
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Tuesday, 01 June 2004 |
RSCJ, Sacred Heart alumnae/i, co-workers and friends are invited to join Sister Anita von Wellsheim on a September 5-12 trip to Haiti sponsored by Fonkoze, Haiti’s alternative bank for the organized poor. Registration is due June 20.
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Tuesday, 01 June 2004 |
In East Harlem, New York City, several RSCJ were among celebrants at a ribbon-cutting ceremony May 5 for a new home for Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service.
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Monday, 24 May 2004 |
JusticeNet,
an RSCJ-sponsored website, has been completely redesigned and upgraded
and is now open to the public. JusticeNet is a site which seeks to
"create an active electronic community of justice and peace, a
community of conscience–partners who engage, study, reflect, change and
act at all levels on what causes injustice."
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