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As Laudato Si Week concluded on May 25, a new project focused on religious communities was launched- the Creation Care Prayer Network! This project is a world-wide effort of the Catholic Church to unite religious and lay communities who will commit to pray for the healing of our common home. Major sponsors include:- Global Catholic Climate Movement
- Franciscan Friars Generalate
- International Union of Superiors General.
Our congregation has joined the Creation Care Prayer Network as a means of living up to our Chapter Direction Statement in two ways: “to be in solidarity with those who suffer” and to make “intentional choices to steward the gift of creation and respond to the threat of climate change”. By joining the Prayer Network we are giving public witness to our commitment, along with more than 200 congregations in over 35 countries on 5 continents.
For more information and to join the network - www.laudatosipray.orgPlease join us in praying for the following intention during the month of June:
For the Rohingya refugees who fled violence & persecution in Myanmar and sought refuge in Bangladesh, only to be made to flee after a cyclone made landfall there in early May, destroying whatever shelter they had.
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Peace and Justice Focus
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Minores Fund
We, the Franciscan Sisters of Peace, continually respond to the call to be servants and to enter into solidarity with the “Minores” of our time - called to make the concerns of the poor and powerless our own.
The Minores Fund is a congregation fund that directly serves today’s poor and powerless in ways that are connected to our charism and Franciscan values, and are reflected in our Chapter Direction Statement.
The most recent grant from the Minores Fund was for support of Seafarers & International House in New York city. Since 1873, Seafarers, operating under the auspices of the Lutheran Church, has responded to the urgent needs of vulnerable seafarers and immigrants. Funds were sent to the organization in support of the annual ‘Christmas At Sea’ program, which provides satchels of warm clothing to seafarers who are confined to ships due to long term contracts, and more so this year due to the lengthy delays in getting ships into port. We view these seafarers as “unseen essential workers” during the current pandemic, which keeps them separated from family during the holidays.
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In MemoriamSister Rose Marie Broadbent, FSP, formerly known as Sr. Mary John, died peacefully at St. Cabrini Nursing Home on May 3, 2023. Rose Marie had four siblings, Mary, George, John and Thomas.
She spent her entire childhood and teenage years in West Paterson, NJ where the Passaic River was her playground. It was there that she attended St. Bonaventure’s Elementary and High School where she was taught by the Franciscan Sisters. After graduating from high school in 1953, Rose Marie entered the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Peekskill, NY and professed her first vows in 1955. This is her seventieth year of religious life!
Sister Rose Marie pursued higher education at Ladycliff College in Highland Falls, NY graduating with a BA degree in French. Later, she studied at Pius X School of Liturgical Music at Manhattanville College where she earned a degree in Sacred Music. (READ MORE...)
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Sister Eileen Lindsay, FSP, formerly known as Sr. Robert Marie, died peacefully at St. Cabrini Nursing Home on September 23, 2022. Eileen was born in Totowa, NJ to Val and Rose Lindsay. She has one brother, Val J.
Raised in
New Jersey, Eileen
attended Memorial Grammar School and St. Bonaventure’s High School in Paterson, NJ where she met the Franciscan Sisters. After graduating from high school in 1942, Eileen enrolled in Ladycliff College, Highland Falls, NY and graduated in 1946. Before entering the Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Peekskill, NY in 1949, she taught at the high school level for two years. It was in 1951 that she professed her first vows. After earning her Master’s Degree in Biology from Fordham University, Sister
Eileen served on the faculty of St. Joseph’s High School,
West New York, NJ for three years before going to Ladycliff College as Professor of Biology. (READ MORE...)
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