by Sister Robert Moser, CSSF There is so much going on this week in our Scripture readings. As we walk the walk from Palm Sunday to Easter through the Thursday arrest and the Friday execution and the long Saturday wait in the void, imagine all of us, changing our minds, renewing our minds, altering our…
Commission on the Status of Women
Commission on the Status of Women Sister Maryann Agnes Mueller, CSSF, attended the 68th annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW68), the UN’s largest annual gathering on gender equality and women’s empowerment. This year 14,000 women, representing almost every country in the world, registered for the two-week meeting held at the United Nations in…
World Water Day, 22 March 2024
The campaign for World Water Day, 22 March 2024, is now live. This year’s theme is ‘Water for Peace’, which focuses on the critical role water plays in the stability and prosperity of the world. When water is scarce or polluted, or when people have unequal or no access, tensions can rise between communities and…
Global Recycling Day 2024
Global Recycling Day 2024: Global Recycling Day is observed on 18 March, every year. It is a day to promote recycling and conservation by educating people about the status of essential resources. This year, the event will be grandly observed across the world on Monday. You can recycle in various ways, one of them is to reuse multiple products. Instead…
Physicist, Blogger, and Felician Sister
Physicist, Blogger, and Felician Sister At the 2023 American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) winter meeting in Portland, OR, just one of the presenters wore a brown habit and veil. Sr. Mary Honorata Grzeszczuk of Felician University’s Physics Department, gave a talk called “Learning vs. Becoming,” inspired by St. Pope John Paul II’s 1993 encyclical, Fides…
World Day of the Sick 2024 Feb. 11th
Pope Francis recalls World Day of the Sick at Audience The Pope, during the General Audience Wednesday recalls the World Day of the Sick, calling for spiritual and physical closeness to all those who are ill. By Vatican News staff reporter 11 February marks the thirtieth World Day of the Sick which was instituted by…
St. Blaise – Feb. 3rd
St. Blaise enjoyed widespread veneration in the Eastern and Western Churches due to many cures attributed to him. According to tradition, he was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and was martyred under Licinius. On this day the Church gives a “Blessing of the Throats” in honor of St. Blaise. From the eighth century he has…
February 3rd – Feast of St. Blaise
Saint Blaise was the bishop of Sebastea and a doctor. The first known record of the saint’s life comes from the medical writings of Aëtius Amidenus, where he is recorded as helping with patients suffering from objects stuck in their throat. Many of the miraculous aspects of St. Blaise’s life are written of 400 years…
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK FROM ST. AUGUSTINE SPIRITUALITY CENTER Laredo, Texas January 28-February 3, 2024 Sister Rosemarie Goins, CSSF Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Deuteronomy 18:15-20.Psalm 95. Corinthians 7:32-35. Mark 1:21-28. Today’s readings talk about listening intently, especially to the voice of God. In our busy world God’s voice is often drown out by the…
News from our Sisters in Curitiba
Our students from Colégio Nossa Senhora da Assunção in Curitiba in the state of Paraná performed a Christmas cantata, singing Christmas carols. They sang from the windows of the school building and there was also a nativity scene. The occasion also commemorated the 800th anniversary of the Nativity scene conceived by St. Francis of Assisi….
Zapraszamy na wspólne poszukiwania
Zapraszamy na wspólne poszukiwania Papież Franciszek na rok przygotowania bezpośrednio do ŚDM w Lizbonie skierował do wszystkich młodych świata orędzie, w którym czytamy: Maryja otwiera dla wszystkich – a zwłaszcza dla was, ludzi młodych tak, jak ona – drogę bliskości i spotkania (…) Po zwiastowaniu Maryja mogłaby skupić się na samej sobie, na zmartwieniach i obawach, związanych…