Ever wonder how Earth Day got started? This observance arose from an interest in gathering national support for environmental issues in 1970. Two senators asked Americans to join grassroots demonstrations[continue reading]
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What Our Vows Mean to Me
The Daughters of Charity, just like other religious orders, make the usual vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. However, we also make an additional vow–a vow of service to those[continue reading]
Seek Him Among the Living
Alleluia! He is Risen! The empty tomb…one of my favorite images of my faith. On Easter Sunday, the women came to the tomb where Jesus was laid and it was[continue reading]
Celebrating the Triduum
Holy Thursday is about Eucharist. It was at His last Passover that Jesus shared the Eucharist with his disciples. It was where He “took the bread, blessed, and broke it,[continue reading]
Anniversary of the Death of Sister Suzanne Guillemin, D.C.
On March 28, 1968, Sister Suzanne Guillemin, D.C., our Mother General, was called home to God suddenly. What a tremendous shock it was. Why does this matter? Who was Sister[continue reading]