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Join Pope Francis, the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities and Christians around the world in praying and taking action for our common home throughout the September 1 – October 4 Season of Creation.
Reflection by S. Marianne Ferguson Luke tells us that after Jesus healed the Leper, he went off to deserted places to pray. We wonder if Jesus’ conversation with his Father is like any conversation between parents and their adult children today. It seems from our reading that Jesus followed his father’s request to take care
Mauricio and Evelyn Melara were 18 when they left civil war-torn El Salvador in 1988. They walked to the Mexico – U.S. border and eventually ended up in Buffalo, New York, hoping to gain entry to Canada. But a backlog of refugees left them, and hundreds of other asylum seekers stranded in Buffalo with little
12/26/2019 BY HAWAII CATHOLIC HERALD By Anna Weaver Hawaii Catholic Herald Two new faces can be seen in the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace. Specially commissioned portraits of St. Marianne Cope and St. Damien de Veuster went up in December on each side of the crucifixion scene on the high altar. Read more
In Her Own Words: Sister Ann Helene Koenig The Christmas Gift Project, also known as the Santa Claus Project, began in 1983 while I was a Principal at St. Agnes School and Parish in the Buffalo area. My telephone rang one day; a representative from St. Joseph’s Hospital in Cheektowaga wanted to know if I
When Sister Conchetta LoPresti began teaching sign language classes at Resurrection Church in Cheektowaga, New York, the goal was to keep the parish from dividing along hearing and deaf. Ten years later, Sister coordinates the Deaf Ministry for the entire Buffalo Diocese; this year, the sign language classes have gone beyond the parish and its
By Marion C. Moeser This December, two Sunday gospel readings from Matthew are about John the Baptist. Who was John and what do we know of John and his interactions with Jesus? An important source about John, outside of the New Testament, is the Jewish historian Josephus (36/37-100 AD). He wrote to justify the Jewish
Sister Martha Torbik was hosted by the New Mexico Civil Air Patrol, as she was the winner of 100 wreaths from the Wreaths Across America organization. That gave her the choice to put them wherever she wanted and she chose the codetalkers. Read more about Sister Martha's story in the Santa Fe New Mexican eEdition.
December 12 will find Sister Martha Torbik in the Santa Fe National Cemetery in New Mexico. There she will lay Christmas wreaths on the graves of 14 Navajo Code Talkers and speak their names in honor of their service to the U.S. during World War II. “These Code Talkers used the Navajo language, unwritten at
A Message from Sister Barbara Jean Donovan I have always thought that Thanksgiving Day is the best day of the year. That’s because it is the day that God is remembered and thanked at church services, family gatherings and in general conversation. The world we live in is very loud and busy, and so we
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