We were all advised that no matter how many Chapters we had attended previously this would be a Chapter like no other. “G’day! G’day!” our facilitators greeted us during the Saturday a.m. orientation. Jill McCorquodale and Patricia Fawkner, a Good Samaritan Sister, greeted us with Aussie accents and happy kangaroos hopped across the screen at…
In an effort to step up energy saving efforts in the Province of Mid-North America, two Sisters and a Mission Partner attended an energy summit this summer which the Archdiocese of St. Louis hosted. Sister Sharon O’Grady talks about the experience. On July 31 I attended the St. Louis Archdiocesan Energy Summit with our Province…
The Good Shepherd ministry Chicago House of the Good Shepherd has been entrusted to Catholic Charities and is no longer a sponsored ministry of Sisters of the Good Shepherd Province of Mid-North America. The Province entrusted the women’s domestic violence shelter to Catholic Charities on July 1, 2015. Good Shepherd Apostolic Sister Sharon O’Grady served the…
Our recent day of prayer was like no other. The Contemplative Sisters of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, Missouri, were invited on May 4, 2015 by Most Reverend Edward M. Rice, Sister Marysia, RSM, and Lynne Lang for a day of prayer and recollection at Mount Grace Convent of Perpetual Adoration, where the nuns are commonly…
My heart overflowed with appreciation for the Province of Mid-North America as I renewed my vows in St. Louis on February 24, 2015. My life was filled this day with delight because of the gratitude I felt to God who called me by His love and for the Sisters who prayed with me and for…
The 59th session of the Commission on Status of Women (CSW) will take place at United Nations Headquarters in New York from March 9-20, 2015, during National Women’s Month. CSW is the principal global intergovernmental body that is dedicated exclusively to promoting women’s rights, documenting the reality of women’s lives throughout the world, and shaping global…
