Posts Tagged ‘Community’
Oh, the games Sisters play
When we posed the question to our Salvatorian Sisters, “Why do you do puzzles?” we found out many of them just can’t get enough of the perplexing pastime. While some of their responses were short and straight to the point, others captured poignant personal memories. Many sisters started doing jigsaw or word puzzles in childhood,…
Read MoreBirthday Memories: Sr. Liz
I had never had a surprise party of any kind until my 60th birthday. On that day, Sr. Jane Eschweiler (with whom I was living at the time) and I decided to have a picnic supper at a nearby community park. After we ate, Sr. Jane said we would go to a frozen custard place…
Read MoreBirthday Memories: Sr. Jane
In 1997, for my 40th birthday I invited several Salvatorian friends to come out to our rented Lake Beulah cottage to spend the day. It was a perfect one. We swam, ate chocolate cake, laughed, blew bubbles in the sun and even got to fish off the pier. I have pictures from then which remind…
Read MoreBirthday Memories: Sr. Liza
I remember one birthday I was at Pius. Two friends of my family, Jim and Pat O’Donohue, happen to have moved into town months earlier. Pat had become the president of Mount Mary College during the time I was there. Since they lived close by, they came to Pius to celebrate my birthday. It felt…
Read MoreReflections on a book discussion: Sr. Jean and Sr. Sheila
Salvatorian Sisters Jean Schafer and Sheila Novak organized a book event around author Debby Irving’s Waking up White for National Catholic Sisters Week. They offered it as a Lenten project at their Salvatorian parish in Orangevale, Calif. They hosted six discussion sessions at Divine Savior Parish with 14 women participating. In addition to facilitating the…
Read MoreReflections on a book discussion: Sr. Letty and Sr. Georgene
Our Salvatorian Sisters in Phoenix, Ariz. hosted a series of discussions about Bryan Stevenson’s book, Just Mercy for 2019 National Catholic Sisters Week. Stevenson is co-founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., a non-profit organization advocating for equal treatment in the criminal justice system. Here, Sisters Georgene Faust and Letty Regala each share…
Read MoreThe DSHA Vocare Experience: Part I
“I was privileged to take part in a prayer service for Divine Savior Holy Angels High School seniors returning from VOCARE. Here, I share students’ reflections on their two-week immersion in community service. For me, their words affirm the vitality of our sponsorship ministry to foster a culture of compassion among the next generation of…
Read MoreBirthday Memories: Sister Virginia
Birthdays at our house when I was growing up were happy occasions. We had a birthday cake with a candle in it at dessert time and the family sang Happy Birthday. There was always a birthday card in the mail from my Grandpa; it always had 50 cents in it, which at that time, I…
Read MoreFolk Artist: Christmas Traditions
Some of the Christmases in the convent have been unlike any of those I had with my family at home. The first thing we learned in our “convent Christmas” was that the pre-Christmas weeks were called Advent. The chapel smelled fragrant with pine wreath and pure beeswax candles. Each Sunday another candle was lit until…
Read MoreSalvatorian Life in the United States
In late May, Salvatorian General Superior Sister Edith Bramberger came to the U.S. from Rome along with Sister Marion Etzel, who also serves on the international leadership team, or Generalate. In this blog post, they reflect on their experiences with our sisters’ communities across the country. We arrived from Rome two days before Memorial Day.…
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