by Joyce Meyer
International Liaison, Global Sisters Report
GSR Today - The Year of Consecrated Life has officially ended, having been celebrated in great diversity throughout of the world. The year gave me time to reflect on my own joy of being a sister and all the changes I have experienced.
by GSR Staff
"Imagine the world if we treated all people and relationships as Divine."
by Lissy Maruthanakuzhy
Sr. Cyrilla Chakkalakal is the fourth Indian to head the Franciscan Sisters of St. Mary of the Holy Angels, which was founded in France in 1871. The congregation is active in seven countries, but 350 of its 500 members are Indian. Chakkalakal has served as the congregation's India provincial for 12 years. She is also a member of the Satya Shodak (a group of female theologians and grassroots theologians) as well as a member of Indian Women Theologians Forum.
GSR Today - When I was a teenager, my mother would tell her friends that as long as I had enough peanut butter and ice cream to eat and classic films to watch, I would never leave the house. So I was thrilled to learn that our very own film critic, Sr. Rose Pacatte, is hosting a program on Turner Classic Movies this month.
Brenna Neimanis is a Good Shepherd volunteer at a juvenile justice residential detention facility that serves adolescent girls in the New York City neighborhood of Brooklyn. She has a degree in social work and humanitarian affairs from James Madison University, where she served as president of the Social Work Organization, on the executive board of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, as a member of the Shenandoah Valley Justice Initiative, and as a member of Phi Alpha, the social work honors fraternity.
by GSR Staff
"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men — from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
by Janet Gildea
Contributor
On Thursday after Ash Wednesday I received the results of my post-chemotherapy PET scan. The doctor poked her head in the exam room door and said, "I have good news for you!" She gave me a big hug, handed the report to me to review and sat herself down at the computer screen.
by Beth Griffin
Contributor
While it may come as a shock, humans are neither central nor supreme in the grand scheme of creation. Humans have a place among other beloved creatures of the same living God, and it’s more humble kinship than dominion. On Friday evening, St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson, distinguished professor of theology at Fordham University, shared thoughts on the idea of such kinship with nature and described new ways to understand how humans fit into God’s work of creation during a well-attended talk at Mary House, a Catholic Worker house in New York’s East Village.
by GSR Staff
"Since all creation has its common source in God, a profound interdependence exists among all of creation. We are but a single part of a vast and interconnected community of creation in relationship to God and each part is valuable in itself. When we value the environment in this way we choose life for the environment and its creatures."
A liturgy group, working on native-language and culturally sensitive translations of key Catholic texts for 45 years, has set a model of a participatory church in Vietnam where clericalism remains rampant. The team, made up of priests, religious and unconsecrated laity, has published 370,000 Vietnamese copies of the Liturgy of the Hours, 66,000 copies of Mass readings and rites, and 3 million copies of the Bible.
