Aguchita is regarded and remembered every September by Sisters wanting to keep her memory alive. This year in particular is cause for remembrance and celebration of her life. The Congregation for the Causes of Saints has approved Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd’s request to open the cause toward Beatification of Maria Agustina ‘Aguchita’ Rivas…
The art exhibit “Change the Narrative” drew a large crowd to Good Shepherd Gallery on opening night August 4 and generated deep reflection and conversation among viewers. The photographic works of Henry Chaney depict the positive outcomes in St. Louis that have emerged from the 2014 Ferguson unrest over the police killing of Mike Brown. An…
Three Mission Partners who worked at House of Good Shepherd Chicago (HGS) paid a summertime visit to Sisters at Immaculate Heart Convent in St. Louis, Missouri.. Jennifer Christy, Pat Meneghini and Sr. Mary Catherine Connolly, SLW, drove from Chicago to St. Louis to see the Sisters they had worked with. The two-day reunion was a charmed…
SOAR to the rescue! When Sr. Mary Carol McClenon uttered those words, she wasn’t kidding. Upsetting circumstances prompted Sr. Mary Carol McClenon to seek a wheelchair van for Sisters at St. Joseph Residence. It started when cancer returned to Sr. Patricia Touissaint and wracked her body with pain. Unable to walk, she needed a wheelchair…
Good Shepherd Gallery opens a new art exhibit on August 4, 2017, with the photographic works of Henry Chaney. Henry looks through his camera lens onto the events that unfolded in Ferguson, Missouri, in August of 2014 over the police shooting of Mike Brown. The killing sparked media attention that held St. Louis, the nation…
Fiat Retreat 2017 took place in the Diocese of Baltimore and Harrisburg this summer. Sister Carmen Flores and Elizabeth Garciano attended the first group of the Fiat Retreat in Baltimore. Sr. Patricia Marie Barnette joined them in the second group from the Diocese of Harrisburg. The retreat took place at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg,…
