In June, Domincan Sr. Mary Dorothea Sondgeroth received a Catholic Health Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her 35 years of service in Jackson, Mississippi. Coming to the state in 1963, she spent 17 years as president of St. Dominic Health Services, retiring in 2011 and becoming the associate executive director of the St. Dominic Health Services Foundation.
by Judy Principe
Contributor
A simple act by a Sister of St. Joseph spoke volumes about how to practice the love of God in everyone and anyone without analysis, hesitation or debate regarding the recipient's deservedness to receive that love.
by GSR Staff
"Let all guests who arrive be received like Christ, for he is going to say, 'I came as a guest, and you received me.' "
by Christina Neumann
Contributor
On the feast of Corpus Christi we remember in a special way the gift of the Eucharist, in which Christ holds nothing back from us. I have taken refuge in Jesus many times in Holy Communion or sitting before the tabernacle.
Christina Neumann serves at St. Anne's Guest Home, an assisted living-type facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where she helps in a variety of roles, including receptionist, sacristan, activities and as an occasional personal care aide. She also manages the web page for the facility, writes their weekly blog and edits their resident newsletter.
For Dominican Srs. Carol Gilbert and Ardeth Platte and others like them, the U.N. agreement — which nuclear states like the U.S. have said they "do not intend to sign" — is a milestone in activists' long, vigilant but often lonely efforts.
Three congregations of the Sisters of St. Joseph, by different paths, have come back to including agrégées into their vocations. Agrégées were part of the first St. Joseph communities, organized in LePuy, France, around 360 years ago. Now communities in Concordia, Kansas; Erie, Pennsylvania; and Springfield, Massachusetts, have such members again. Global Sisters Report takes a look at these "new" forms and emerging ways of religious life.
by GSR Staff
"When we live in community we carry one another, we bear one another’s burdens, we lift one another up. It’s risky. Sometimes we fall together and rise together. But there are always hands, reaching out, reaching up, holding, holding on."
On July 9, the Pennsylvania sisters — along with the community organization Lancaster Against Pipelines — will hold an interfaith service to dedicate an outdoor chapel built in the construction path of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline.
by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
See for Yourself - At a walk-in salon, I got an expert haircut and an inspiring story of shaky beginnings eventually turning out OK.
