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by GSR Staff
December 20, 2016
"O Sacred Presence, awaken in us an awareness of your abiding love."
Eilís Coe is a Dubliner, born in Clondalkin in 1942. She entered the Sisters of Charity in Dublin in 1961. After her novitiate, she trained as a primary school teacher and taught in Dublin for eight years, during which time she completed a bachelor's degree in Irish and English language and literature and a Higher Diploma in Education at UCD.In 1974, Eilís was missioned to Zambia, where she taught English language and literature and religious education in secondary schools. She also taught in Botswana from 1994 to 1996.
by GSR Staff
December 19, 2016
Editor's note: Global Sisters Report recently held a discussion with Sr. Pat Murray, IBVM, executive secretary of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG); Sr. Mary Pellegrino, CSJ, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious; and Sr. Joan-Marie Steadman, CSC, executive director of the LCWR, on topics related to the global sisterhood and the outlook for 2017 and beyond. Below is an edited transcript of that conversation. A shorter, edited transcript is available here.
by GSR Staff
December 19, 2016
Global Sisters Report recently held a discussion with Sr. Pat Murray, executive secretary of the International Union of Superiors General; Sr. Mary Pellegrino, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious; and Sr. Joan-Marie Steadman, LCWR executive director, on topics related to the global sisterhood.
by Huguette Ostiguy
Contributor
December 19, 2016
We live in Mzimba, a small town in a large rural area of Malawi where our neighbors struggle every day with poverty and lack of food due to poor soil and a long and dry, hot season. Last year, our small community of sisters wondered what we could do to help ourselves and our neighbors accomplish zero hunger, one of the United Nations sustainable development goals. Challenged to consider what actions here could help end hunger and poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all, we looked to our community garden and thought about shade.
by Lissy Maruthanakuzhy
December 19, 2016
When Rose Kayathinkara, a Medical Mission nun, first came to Chiramdare, Jengsang's village, 32 years ago, he and more than 500 families lived in one-room bamboo huts. "We used to struggle even for one meal a day," he said. That was before Kayathinkara, who is popularly known as Sister Rose, introduced rubber cultivation to them. Today, concrete bungalows dot the village that sits on the slope of a mountain in the East Garo Hills of Meghalaya in northeastern India, and people are able to be free from moneylenders.
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by GSR Staff
December 19, 2016
"O God of the Universe, you continually astound us with the wonders of creation."
Huguette Ostiguy is a Missionary Sister of the Immaculate Conception who grew up near Montreal in Granby, Canada, where she studied home economics before joining religious life. In 1973, she began serving in Zambia and 1979 began a 10-year stint as the matron at the Marymount Girls Secondary School. After completing a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in counseling, she returned to Malawi. She is actively engaged in training local professional counselors at Saint John College of Health Sciences and offering individual counseling and group sessions.
This story appears in the See for Yourself feature series. View the full series.
by Nancy Linenkugel
Contributor
December 16, 2016
See for Yourself - "This year I'm not going to be so stressed out over the holidays," my friend Carol said. "In the past I always went crazy cleaning the house, decorating for Christmas, baking cookies, making appetizers and dips, writing cards, and falling exhausted into bed every night in December. No more! I'm not doing that!"
by GSR Staff
December 16, 2016
"If it is true what they told me as a child — if we are the world — then we are screaming in our sleep. From coast to coast, continent to continent — the nightmare ends when humanity wakes up." #PrayForAleppo