The Bridge Cafe opens
Restorative Partners has added a new social enterprise called The Bridge Cafe. Theresa Harpin, CSJ founded Restorative Partners and serves today at its Executive Director.
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These are the latest Items related to our Los Angeles, California Province, which includes our communities in Hawai’i and Japan.
`Ohana celebrate 35 years in Hawai`i
Over the last year, the `ohana, our lay associates in Hawai`i, have been celebrating their 35th anniversary of association with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Hawai`i.
The true meaning of gratitude
As a child, the first components of social etiquette I learned were the “magical” words of please and thank you, generally used to get something I wanted. My realization that gratitude means much more came about just a few years later.
Religious Education Congress
Recently, several sisters from our Los Angeles Province attended the Religious Education Congress. While there, our sisters attended speeches, helped run booths and met both old and new friends.
New Year Celebration at St. Francis Xavier Chapel Japanese Catholic Center
St. Francis Xavier Church in Los Angeles, where I do ministry, welcomed Bishop Elshoff on January 21 for Mass and a New Year’s party. It was a great joy for the parishioners to have more than a dozen Carondelet Sisters attending.
Building Bridges as Saint Joseph Workers
The St. Joseph Worker program is a year-long service opportunity for women ages 21-30 in preparation for a lifelong commitment to social change and personal transformation.
Following the Trek of the Seven Pioneer Sisters to Tucson
This year, I was fortunate to be part of a group of ten following the Trek of the Seven Sisters to Tucson from May 15-19.
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.
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
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.