by Natalia Liviero
Notes from the Field – I participated in four encounters held by the Union of Religious of the Holy Land. We analyzed a Vatican letter on the relationship between the church's hierarchial and charismatic gifts. Women and men religious from throughout the region shared their experience with the hierarchy, and discussed diversity and inclusion.
by Mary Ann Pajakowski
Contributor
Walking the "Notre Dame Trail" from Vincennes Indiana to South Bend Indiana in celebration of the University of Notre Dame's 175 years was not what it was for Congregation of the Holy Cross Fr. Julian Sorin de la Gaulterie and his six Brothers of the Holy Cross companions in 1843. But we did it.
by GSR Staff
"Charism is always ripe but always in bloom again, always finished for one age and people but starting over again in another — charism is like every living thing."
GSR Today - As I marvel at the remastered "Sgt. Peppers," I realize how it is only when I allow God to start from the beginning, to rebuild me from the ground up using the original parts made in his image, that others can experience me as God intended.
Sr. Boitumelo Albertina Matlhabe has spent most of her life at St. Joseph's College High School in Gaborone, Botswana. The Sister of Calvary graduated from St. Joseph's in 1979, and she's been teaching there since 1985. In 2005, she became the school's managing director. She spoke with GSR about the realities of running a school that is partially funded by the government.
Mary Ann Pajakowski grew up in South Bend, Indiana, where she entered the Sisters of the Holy Cross. For 24 years, she worked in high schools and volunteered at La Casa de Amistad in South Bend, a Hispanic youth and community center. She currently works with education programs at Holy Cross Ministries in Park City, Utah, an afterschool, summer and preschool for children of first- and second- generation immigrant parents, mostly from Mexico. She is involved with comprehensive immigration reforms efforts and the Dream Act.
An interfaith retreat center run by the Immaculate Heart Community is among the estimated 1,000 structures either destroyed or damaged last week by mudslides in Southern California that also killed at least 20 people. The center's original stone house was untouched, however.
by GSR Staff
"We are emissaries of the Prince of Peace, and we bear candles lit with his everlasting light."
