We commit, individually and communally, to recognizing how our decisions impact the Earth community; to raising our awareness and changing behaviors; to acting with urgency to protect Earth’s stability and integrity; and to celebrating her beauty wherever we are.
As we continue our Advent journey, the season of waiting and listening, the second Advent candle represents peace and preparation. As we await LOVE to enter the world, let us prepare and experience peace by being mindful in caring for Creation.
As we enter Advent, the season of waiting and listening, the first Advent candle represents hope. Throughout this Advent, we are going to focus on four themes of mindfulness, starting with mindful spending.
When I was invited to write a reflection about ecological conversion, I immediately Sister Ida Robertine Berresheim came to mind. I distinctly remember a talk she gave in Los Angeles decades ago, where she opened my eyes to the reality that there is no “away” to which we throw things.
Bringing attention to the wonder, encouraging gratitude for the gift of creation is the first step in encouraging actions to preserve nature.
In a book club comprised of sisters and charism partners, Sister Diane Smith, CSJ reads books that enrich her spirituality and challenge her to the more. Recently, her book club finished Victoria Loorz’s “Church of the Wild: How Nature Invites Us into the Sacred.”
The opening of my heart has opened me to a consciousness of the importance of each presence. Seeing with the eyes of the heart, hearing with the ears of the Divine grows more intimate through each moment.
In early February, Lucy, a member of the housekeeping staff, discovered a baby great horned owl beneath a pine tree near Albany Provincial House’s front circle.
Exploring the call to ecological conversion, Sister Chizuru Yamada, CSJ reflects on the transitions from paper to plastic and plastic to paper.
During our 2019 Congregational Chapter, we prioritized “responding to the crisis of Earth and global warming.” Here is how we responded.
What in the world are four Sisters of St. Joseph doing at the fifth United Nations international negotiating session on a plastic pollution treaty (INC-5)?
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet are a congregation of Catholic sisters. We, and those who share our charism and mission, are motivated in all things by our profound love of God and our dear neighbors. We seek to build communities and bridge divides between people. Since our first sisters gathered in 1650, our members have been called to “do all things of which women are capable.” The first sisters of our congregation arrived in St. Louis, Missouri in 1836, and we now have additional locations in St. Paul, Albany, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Japan and Peru. Today, we commit to respond boldly to injustice and dare to be prophetic.