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.
GSR Today - A few years before a chain of catastrophes happened to people close to me, I read Patrick Henry's The Ironic Christian's Companion, one of the only spiritual books I've read that actually spoke to me and the blundering, stumbling, lost-in-the-dark kind of faith I have.
by Maxine Kollasch
Contributor
Like many people, I spend a lot of time on the Internet. Whether for my ministry at A Nun's Life or in my personal time, the Internet is a regular part of my life. I respond to emails, interact on social media, search for information, attend webinars, watch livestreaming events, listen to podcasts, and engage in other activities that connect me with people, information, and ideas. In the midst of doing these ordinary activities, I find that there's always room for the Holy Spirit to break in with an invitation to encounter God anew!
by GSR Staff
"Behold, I am making all things new!"
