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Sister Marie Maurer: we celebrate her beloved life
Marie Maurer, RGS August 13, 1940 – December 7, 2016 How do we tell a story about a woman like Sr. Marie Maurer? Words are inadequate. We can only make a feeble attempt to capture the aspects of her life. Others can keep adding their own bits to the story of Sr. Marie, who was…
Good Shepherd Mediation Program celebrates highlights
Good Shepherd Mediation Program (GSMP) celebrated two highlights in December. The program dedicated its training room to Kay and Paul McClenon, the parents of Good Shepherd Sister Mary Carol McClenon. Sr. Mary Carol and her niece Lee (Kay and Paul’s granddaughter) attended the dedication ceremony. The event took place at GSMP’s Open House on December 12, 2016. Kay…
Province Christmas season ushers in good tidings
Province Christmas parties abounded across the U.S. as Good Shepherd ushered in the holiday season. Province Christmas in Atlanta Dressed in their finest garb on a cold wintry day, 86 elderly immigrants and refugees from the Metro Atlanta region joined Good Shepherd Services (GSS) for a Christmas party on December 17. Guests who had come recently to the…
60th Jubilees give Good Shepherd Sisters cause to celebrate
60th Jubilees give Sisters cause for celebration. Sr. Caridad Tamayo made retreat on November 21 to renew her vows in quiet solitude. Sr. Mary Regina Long will celebrate her 60th Jubilee with Sisters in the Baltimore Community tomorrow, on Thursday, December 8th. Both Sisters are 60 years professed in the Good Shepherd Congregation. Fidelity to God “I wanted…
Training youth in social justice advocacy shapes the future
Training youth for social justice advocacy is all in a day’s work for Good Shepherd National Advocacy Center (NAC). Director of NAC Larry Couch recently trained a group of students on techniques for meeting with legislators on Capitol Hill. The young men were from Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland. Earlier this year Larry trained a group of young…
Art show in Ferguson displays God’s creative diversity
An art show at Good Shepherd Gallery in Ferguson, Missouri, displays the works of Sister Elizabeth Slenker, OP. The exhibit is titled God’s Creative Diversity. The show opened to the public with a cake cutting ceremony on Saturday, November 26th, to celebrate the first birthday of Good Shepherd Gallery. Art show features animals The art show features watercolors of animals. Sr….
Assembly prompted sense of urgency to move forward
Assembly prompted a sense of urgency to move forward for Sisters who are in the Province of Mid-North America. The Sisters gathered in Belleville, Illinois, from November 8-11. They met to listen, share, reflect and plan for the future of the province. Sister Caridad Tamayo said, “What a gift to know the heart of my sisters, burning with…
Nogales – both sides of the border for SOA Watch protest
Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico were this year’s location for SOA Watch. I arrived in Nogales, Arizona, early Friday afternoon on October 7. I went there for a protest march that School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) had organized. Fr. Roy Bourgeois, a laicized Roman Catholic priest, founded the human rights group in 1990 to…
Sr. Anne Kelley receives Angel Award for service
Sr. Anne Kelley received a Lifetime Achievement Angel Award last month for 21 years of dedicated service to the Good Shepherd Shelter in Los Angeles. The Good Shepherd Shelter Guild held its annual benefit gala on October 9, 2016 and honored Sr. Anne Kelley with its distinguished award. “Honoring Sr. Anne was a perfect tie…