Good News to Share! - Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet

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Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet
June 3, 2016
Good News to Share!
Next issue June 10th
Save the Date
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When It’s Hard to Discard:
Overcoming Clutter
and Hoarding Type Behaviors
A two hour presentation
by Mark Odom, LCSW
Hoarding Consultant
Saturday, June 11th
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Classrooms CC
RSVP to [email protected]
by June 6th
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Directory Information Forms
Due Today to Communications
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Online Draft of Directory
will go live June 17th
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Assembly 2016
July 28th - July 31st
B
ishop Gerald R. Barnes surprised Sister Linda Nicholson,
CSJ last Friday with the Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Cross at
Our Lady of the Rosary Cathedral in San Bernardino, CA.
This award is presented to individuals whose distinguished
service to the Church and contributions rise to a level that they deserve
recognition by the Universal Church. The conferral of this honor may
only be made by the Apostolic See with the recommendation of the
Diocesan Bishop, and it is one of the highest honors a person may
receive in the Catholic Church.
Sister was thanked for life of working in our church. She humbly
accepted this award in the name of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet
and the many people she has ministered with over the last 59 years!
Last January, the principals also recognized Sister Linda as a
courageous educator who has touched the lives their schools, teachers,
students and parents with her service and work in our schools. They
awarded her with the Thomas Aquinas Award. She has worked hard
to impact Catholic Identity and Catholic teaching throughout the
curriculum. v
~ Submitted by Sister Sara Kane, CSJ
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Calls to Action
A Pilgrimage
On May 18th, eight members of AZ Cluster 1 took a field trip to the Kino
Border Initiative (KBI), a Jesuit ministry to the migrants and deportees on
the AZ/Mexico border. We were welcomed by Sister Celina of the Missionary
of the Eucharist community who ministers there and by Father Sean Carroll,
SJ the director of the KBI.
Approximately 80 migrants filled the 4 long tables. Sister led them in
an interactive educational session about their rights as children of God and
why it was important for them to stand up for their rights. Fr. Sean then led
us in prayer. We helped serve the plates of rice, beans, beef bits, tortillas,
coffee and soft drinks. After the meal, we visited with the deportees whose
stories were very sad and tugged at our hearts.
The womens’ shelter consisits of two apartments on the top floor of a
large apartment building. We met three women who were recently deported
and were temporarily living there. Another lady with four children lived in
the adjacent apartment. They were gracious women though still suffering
the separation from their loved ones. They desired a free and peaceful life
and were determined to try and cross the border again to be re-united with
their families.
As we shared lunch, we talked about the deep impact of our experience
on each of us. Everyone agreed it was an experience during which not only
we had been blessed but we had been gifted with a real sense of widening
our tent and reaching out and welcoming our dear neighbor. One of us said,
“It was like going on a Pilgrimage”. v
~ Submitted by Sister Irma Odabashian, CSJ
Holy Family Retreat - Path of Mercy
Engagement
Process
We commit to [practicing] new
ways of being in mission with
partners and collaborators.
Presentation Sisters’ Learning
Center in Watts was blessed the
day CSJ Sisters volunteered to
share their gifts with our adult
students. The Sisters’ dedication
and fidelity to teaching ESL,
music, crafts and citizenship
preparation is an inspiration. “Each
one, teach one,” a saying that our
Presentation Sisters in India use
in their schools, is one we try to
emulate. Working together as
women religious, along with lay
volunteers and donors, is the only
way forward. Let us continue to
widen our tents and join forces to
give the gift of education to those
who have been deprived of its
benefits. v
~ Submitted by Jane Bonar, PBVM
Retreat director Sister Joanne Dehmer, SSND invites retreatants to be on
the path of mercy and deepen the quality of compassion and forgiveness in
their lives. v
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Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
Pasco, WA
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on the NEWS button above.
v Carondelet High School,
Concord, CA
Congratulations
Congratulations to Sister Carol
Quinlivan, CSJ who received
a Ph.D. in religious studies,
specifically Celtic Spirituality. She
will begin teaching at Mount St.
Mary’s University in the fall. v
~ Submitted by Sister Mary Sevilla,
CSJ
Is Celebrating 100 Years of Service
In 1916, Sisters of St. Joseph from Lewiston, Idaho answered the call of Father
Bender, Pastor of St. Patrick Church in Pasco, area physicians and community
members to open the area’s first hospital. Lourdes has been privileged to
extend the healing ministry of Jesus to members of the community for 100
years, caring for poor, sick, vulnerable and disenfranchised persons. Lourdes will celebrate this milestone on Saturday, September 24,
2016 with Mass celebrated by The Most Reverend Thomas Daly, Bishop of
Spokane, at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick Church. A Gala dinner will be held that
evening at the Red Lion Hotel in Pasco. Please join us in prayer as we commemorate our 100 years of ministry. ~ Submitted by Sisters Esther Polacci and Mary Williams, CSJ
For
PRAYERS PLEASE
Remembering
Sisters & Associates
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Only. Click on button above:
v Note from Sisters in Hawaii
v Thank You Note from Sister
Kathleen McCarthy, CSJ
v Thank You Note from Sister Pat
Foster, CSJ
When Your Friends Need Prayer
The Sisters of St. Joseph created
the website– prayersplease.com.
Anybody may request prayers
anonymously and free of charge. v
Sister Therese Donahue, CSJ
Remembering on line
Click here
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