If you ask director and filmmaker Richard Ray Perez if the story of Cesar Chavez chose him or if he chose to tell Chavez's story, he would say both. Following the screening of his new film, "Cesar's Last Fast," at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress Film Showcase March 14, he told the audience that when he was 5 years old in the late 1960s, he first became aware of the table grape boycott while eating lunch at Head Start.
by Elizabeth Johnson
There is a powerful scene in the Gospels that shows in a flash how life-giving the encounter between Jesus and women can be. As Luke tells the story: Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath, and a woman came in who had been crippled by a spirit for 18 years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she stood up straight and began to praise God. (Lk 13:10-13)
by N.J. Viehland
At the Fatima Center for Human Development, children learn farm and other trade skills to become self-sufficient in the Philippines, thanks to the dedication of Sr. Felicitas De Lima and other Daughters of St. Augustine.
Julie Vieira (she/her), is a writer, presenter and thinker in spirituality with particular attentiveness to living the darkness and light — the poetry and rough prose — of everyday life. She is a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Monroe, Michigan. She also works as a retreat director and as a consultant in the unfolding of religious life and mission. Her care for the earth has led her to working with the elements of stone and metal in her art. She holds a Master of Arts in theology from St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto.
Sr. Maxine Kollasch co-founded A Nuns Life Ministry, a vibrant online community where Catholic sisters engage with people worldwide around faith, vocation and finding joy in everyday life. Founded on the Internet in 2006 with Sr. Julie Vieira, the ministry is present online and in many social media.
A Nun’s Life Ministry helps people discover and grow in their vocation by engaging questions about God, faith and religious life.
The ministry is partially funded by a grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
Catholic Sisters Week is an annual event that shines a spotlight on women religious, raising awareness of their charisms and engagement in their ministries. It is an effort of Communicators for Women Religious.
National Religious Vocation Conference is an organization of vocation ministers of both women and men religious institutes. Its goal is to help women and men discern a religious vocation, to assess candidates interested in becoming Catholic sisters, brothers and priests, and to welcome new members to religious life.
International Union of Superiors General (UISG) is a worldwide, canonically approved organization of superiors general of institutes of Catholic women religious. UISG and the Union of Superior Generals (men) also share a website Vidimus Dominum.
Talitha Kum is an international network of women religious against human trafficking. Its goals include prevention, protection and assistance, awareness raising and denouncement of human trafficking.
