Category: Felician Sisters
A Message for our Earth
How to Minimize Othering
How to Minimize Othering Remember that diversity has important benefits Learning about and spending time with people who are different from you is important for growth. It allows you to look outside of yourself and your immediate social circle and explore new experiences, ideas, cultures, and beliefs. “Let us dream, then, as a single human…
Divine Mercy Sunday 2nd Sunday of Easter
Second Sunday of Easter. Divine Mercy Sunday. Acts of the Apostles 2: 42-47. Psalm 118. Peter 1: 1: 3-9. John 20: 29. “Although you have not seen him you love him; even though you do not see him now, yet you believe in him; you rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, as you attain…
All Saints Day
The Church Triumphant: Those who have gone before us and now share in the glories of Heaven, in the Beatific Vision, are not gone. Sure, we do not see them and we cannot necessarily hear them speak to us in the physical way they did while on Earth. But they are not gone at…
The Felician sisters have always shared what they have with the most in need.
Między Ziemią a Niebem TVP Siostry Felicjanki Kraków Felicjanki Młodym
Personal reflections on the synod on synodality
Over the centuries, men and women religious have practiced synodality through chapters, community meetings, and conversation groups to prepare for chapters of elections and affairs, house meetings and more. Decisions are made through prayer, dialogue (sometimes intense), and contemplative discernment to come to a decision or a way forward. The synod handbook, or vademecum, states that…
Creation Speaks, Let’s Listen
September 1st World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation
History of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation This celebration started among the world Orthodox Christian community in 1989 with the leadership of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who is affectionately known as “the Green Patriarch.” For the Orthodox community in the United States, September 1 has significance beyond its proximity to back-to-school…
The CJIPCC held an interprovincial meeting
The CJIPCC held an interprovincial meeting by ZOOM on Tuesday and Wednesday August 23, 24. On Tuesday, Sister M Jean Sliwinski presented highlights of the background of Laudato Si and the Action Platform. In the Discussion session that followed, Sisters shared what progress was made in assessing actions that they were undertaking in their respective…