Eco-Challenge: Move beyond beef
In January, ask yourself: How might altering my red meat meal choices lead to improving the environment?
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These are the latest items about events, initiatives and stories that involve our entire international community.
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.
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.
Reflecting on Founders Day
In the middle of October, we celebrate Founders’ Day, memorializing the eight courageous pioneers who created our community in Le Puy, France. Father Médaille went where Jesuits were not allowed to go, gathering a group of women and helping them become a formal religious congregation.
Founders’ Day Virtual Celebration
Join the Canadian and U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph on the eve of Founders’ Day, a worldwide celebration of the founders of Sisters of St. Joseph around the globe.
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.
Eco-Challenge: Engage in the Season of Creation
During this Season of Creation, there will be many opportunities to choose outward manifestations of your inner ecological conversion.
An Unchanging Charism in a Changing World
The Sisters of St. Joseph have gone through many organizational changes since our founding in 1650, while never wavering from our mission and charism. Today, guided by the Spirit, our congregation continues to discern the best way to govern ourselves.
“The charism wouldn’t let us go”
Our founder, Father Jean Pierre Médaille, SJ said in the 1600s, “All are called to enter more profoundly into their vocation, even if their ways of living it are different.” Now in the 21st century, the people called together by our charism continue to find new ways to live their vocations.
Eco-Challenge: Break free from single-use plastics
As a congregation, we join with people around the world to recognize Plastic Free July. How far can you go to reduce your single-use plastic purchases?