by Matan Rosenstrauch
Sr. Leonir de Fátima Fabris is a Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary who is originally from Brazil. She is a psychologist, a nurse and a naturopath who works in the Hakumana center in Maputo, Mozambique, where a high percentage of the population lives with HIV/AIDS.
When Notre Dame de Namur Sr. Kathleen O'Hagan and St. Joseph Sr. Gretchen Shaffer arrived in Mingo County in 1976, nearly everyone was economically poor. Though four decades have passed since the pastoral letter by the Appalachian bishops, the region's underlying problem has not changed. Standards of living are higher, regulations have made coal mining cleaner, and unions have turned coal mining into safer, well-paying jobs, but the people still have little voice.
by Paulette Zimmerman
Contributor
It is doubtful that we feel "made for these times." We may well wish that we had been born at another time, one more settled and secure.
by GSR Staff
"God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild."
by Michele Morek
GSR Today - Wouldn't it be great to take out all our old cracked and chipped "stuff" — like old hurts, unresolved differences, a thoughtless word not forgotten — to the trash heap and start over?
Matan Rosenstrauch is originally from Israel and is now located in Maputo, Mozambique, as part of his studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He also blogs for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz covering Southern Africa. Follow him on Twitter: @MatanSTR.
by GSR Staff
"Encounter invites us to come outside of ourselves. It encourages us to meet one another as equals and sisters and brothers. It is not standing on one side of the river bank, waiting while the other party builds a bridge clear from the distant shore. No, it is gathering our tools and hammering away as well, as best we know how, to hopefully meet in a graced space on a bridge we build together."
From a Nun's Life podcasts - If you wear ashes, is that like parading around your holiness? In this Random Nun Clip, a listener asks if people who wear ashes on Ash Wednesday are showing off their holiness.
After 40 years of community organizing, Sr. Pearl Ceasar will assume her role as superior general of the Sisters of Providence, a congregation that spans the U.S. Southwest, Missouri, Colorado, California and Mexico. She is now working on transitioning out of her position as executive director of Project QUEST (Quality Employment through Skills Training) in San Antonio.
by Joan Sauro
Sometimes it is difficult to discern the voice of God, especially in dark, political situations. But God's voice does come, mostly in the needs of others.
