June 2, 2015
GSR Today - Last Thursday was Menstrual Hygiene Day, a day dedicated to both teaching good hygiene practices and to addressing the stigmatization of menstruation that persists in many societies around the world. I love this.
by Margaret Galiardi
Contributor
June 1, 2015
The anticipation of the pope’s encyclical on ecology and climate change grows with every passing day. Almost everyone seems to have their issue or angle which they hope will be addressed. In parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin it’s all about the extraction of silica sand, used for concocting the fluid made of sand, water and unknown chemicals used to do hydraulic fracturing mining of natural gas from shale deposits. Silica mining causes its own pollution.
Margaret Galiardi, is a Dominican Sister from Amityville, New York, whose passion is the contemplative integration of justice and peace for people and planet. She is a “lover of the wild,” a spiritual director and workshop and retreat leader who has lectured nationally on the New Cosmology and the Christian Story. She spent a year living with the Trappistine monks in their monastery on the Lost Coast of Northern California in the Redwood Forest.
by GSR Staff
June 1, 2015
“If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.”
by GSR Staff
June 1, 2015
"All is prepared in welcome. Will you come and celebrate the fountain of all life?"
This story appears in the LCWR and Apostolic Visitation feature series.
June 1, 2015
Recently I had an opportunity to lead the discussion following the screening of the film, "Band of Sisters," which I am in. It tells the story of how we women religious became involved with various ministries following the Second Vatican Council. It focuses on the emerging works of social justice, political advocacy, the movement toward sustainability and ecological centers and the transformation of consciousness rooted in contemplation. Woven within the film is the challenge women religious faced with the investigations initiated from two different Vatican Congregations.
June 1, 2015
GSR Today - Earlier this year we reported that an uneasy peace seemed to have come to South Sudan, though the war-torn country’s troubles were many and both the government and rebels were rumored to be re-arming. Now comes word that fighting has, indeed, again erupted.
This story appears in the Notes from the Field feature series. View the full series.
by Mary Clare Mazzocchi
Contributor
June 1, 2015
Notes from the Field - As a Dominican Volunteer this year, I have had the chance to live in community with 14 Mission San Jose Dominican sisters in their convent in the Mission District of San Francisco. Observing and participating in their prayer, communal lifestyle, and community conversation, I have grown in ways that were unexpected but invaluable. Lately, I have been thinking especially of the way that contemplative living allows a person and a community to be more adaptable in times of change.
Mary Clare Mazzocchi is a 2014-2015 Dominican volunteer at Immaculate Conception Academy, an all-girls Cristo Rey high school in the Mission District of San Francisco. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2014 with a degree in American studies and minors in philosophy and creative writing with highest honors. Her duties in ministry include assisting in the school’s admissions office, tutoring in an afterschool study session for girls on academic probation, and chaperoning students on their corporate work-study commutes.
May 29, 2015
When Society of the Sacred Heart Sr. Betty Nakyanzi left her native Uganda to get a master’s degree in Intercultural Ministry in the United States, she knew it would be a challenge. But she never imagined it would result in her – even temporarily – being in a wheelchair. But the experience has also given her deeper insight into what so many people go through, and a new appreciation for those who help others.