Join us on The Trek
Sisters from our Los Angeles Province have compiled Trek of the Seven Sisters: Pilgrimage Companion Guide. The book is based on the diary of Sister Monica Corrigan and their own experience traveling the trek route.
Eco-Challenge: Move beyond beef
In January, ask yourself: How might altering my red meat meal choices lead to improving the environment?
Snapshot in Time: Mele Kalikimaka
We want to share this beautiful collection of Christmas cards from our sisters who served in Hawaii. These cards that span the 1970s and ‘80s and into the early ‘90s are kept in the Carondelet Consolidated Archives in St. Louis
Eco-Challenge: Have yourself an eco-friendly Christmas
How environmentally friendly is your Christmas going to be this year? Here are a few ideas to help you make interesting alternative choices.
My Mexicali Border Experience Changed My Life
My experience at the shelter in Mexicali, Mexico has changed my life. I am now looking at everything and everyone with different eyes. The experience was not anything I had expected! I thought there would be a building surrounded with a yard where the children could play and we would paint in small groups. Instead, we arrived at a crowded shelter with 215 immigrants—110 adults and 105 children.
Eco-Challenge: Practice gratitude
In this season of Thanksgiving, may we consider ways to give thanks for the creation around us. May we practice gratitude for the abundance given to us in the created world.
A bridge from the U.S. to Kenya
Growing Community Roots invests directly in water catchment systems that provide safe water for drinking and bathing, fencing for community gardens that ensure children have nutritious meals at school and tree farms that help address the critical deforestation problem that exists in Homa Bay.
Celebrating 60 years in Peru
In August, the occasion of our anniversary celebration of the arrival of our sisters to Peru brought us many blessings both virtually and in person as we gathered to celebrate with our sisters, associates, collaborators and other friends of the sisters.
Eco-Challenge: Purchase paper products responsibly
Considering your own paper product usage, what might you change right now? Think about which products you could use less of, use a different quality or even do without.
Short Stories from the Border
I said to the 8-year-old “how lucky she was to have him help her” His response was “Well someone has to do it so I guess it’s me.” What a parent won’t do to save their children.