These are my reflections on a Lenten retreat that Companions of Jesus the Good Shepherd took this spring. We Companions, isolated by COVID-19, have felt for a year like we’re sitting in the car looking out the passenger side window. As Lent approached, Mary de Sane grabbed the wheel and metaphorically piloted us down the…
Over the past nine months, I have been collaborating with Good Shepherd agencies to act for justice. I had the incredible opportunity to work with several partner agencies that help carry out the Good Shepherd mission across the country. It has been a powerful learning experience meeting agency staff and hearing their unique stories and…
There is no doubt about it: Good Shepherds dazzle when working together for Mission. Saint Mary Euphrasia recognized this and even spoke about it in a round-about sort of way. She said: “Yes, our Congregation is built on love. Strive to perpetuate it among us. What is more beautiful or more desirable than this charity,…
“What a beautiful launch of our virtual province Chapter! Thank you to the team in Cincinnati and Louisville for taking us to ‘the cradle’ where Mary Euphrasia and her partners sent the first five Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd Sisters 178 years ago in 1843,” said Province Leader Madeleine Munday after the…
I was invited to share my impressions of NAC’s 2021 Shine the Light Virtual Conference: Root Causes and Intersections on Human Trafficking. Ending human trafficking has been a cause dear to my heart since my days of working to eradicate modern-day slavery with the Good Shepherd Sisters in Budapest. At the time, Hungary, particularly Budapest,…
I had engaged in prison ministry a number of years ago after the Phoenix diocese hired me to be part of its prison ministry team. The outreach took me to three facilities for women in Arizona: the state prison in the desert, a moderate security prison close to downtown Phoenix, and the local jail. I…
