Margaret Gonsalves

Margaret Gonsalves is a Sister for Christian Community and feminist theologian active in the Ecclesia of Women in Asia and Indian Women Theologians Forum. As founder of ANNNI Charitable Trust, she networks in solidarity with nongovernmental organizations to run free residential programs in intensive spoken English to empower Indigenous girls and women. She organizes MADness workshops to implement the United Nations' sustainable development goals as well as the spirituality of Laudato Si' and Fratelli Tutti.

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La hermana Margaret Gonsalves pertenece a la congregación Sisters for Christian Community y participa en las organizaciones Ecclesia of Women in Asia e Indian Women Theologians Forum como teóloga feminista activa. Como fundadora de ANNNI Charitable Trust, trabaja conjuntamente y de forma solidaria con organizaciones no gubernamentales, con el fin de llevar a cabo programas residenciales gratuitos de inglés intensivo para empoderar a las niñas y mujeres indígenas.
 

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Evolutionary consecrated life

Let's get rid of the old traps like: "Keep the rules and the rules will keep you." Instead, let's follow the advice of St. Francis of Assisi and, "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible,  and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

God ran away

Edwina Gateley's memoir oozes the mystical power of a listening heart, the excitement of freedom, and a profound call to kindness channeling through deep faith, allowing everyone to hear the seeds of integrity, compassion and daring courage.

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The power of anointing touch

In anointing massage, oils and tears work as outer and inner healers, evoking feelings of being loved, freeing from the yoke of buried guilt, and awakening new hope for the future.

Nature my chapel, poems my psalms

Dancing in rough seas

Including women: to bray or not to bray

Solidarity is the way to religious life

Wear yoga: One size fits all

My Catholic dad: a Gospel feminist

Celebrate nurturing motherhood

Laudato Si': community of life

Poor Jesus and the vow of poverty

Life consecrated, not religious

Communitarian spirituality

The way of practical obedience

The path of holy disobedience

An integrated, peaceful world