From the monthly archives:

November 2009

Begin Advent Wide-Open to the Now

November 28, 2009

Here begins Mark’s Gospel of Jesus Christ…
Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way. A voice of one crying out in the desert: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.
During this liturgical year Evangelist Luke calls us to ‘be vigilant’.
Join the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity’s this Advent [...]

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Civil Disobedience in the Franciscan Tradition

November 23, 2009

With the U.S. Catholic Bishops and faithful urging change in the proposed Senate healthcare reform bill, and the Manhatten Declaration also gaining media attention in on-line national magazines and individual blogs, Franciscanized World steps back into a very different medieval age and reflects on the lives of Francis and Clare to find possible examples of civil disobedience, an active refusal to obey certain laws, demands and commands of an authority or a society for [...]

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Relish Carloyn Arends’ ‘I Am A Soul’ This Thanksgiving

November 23, 2009

If you enjoy the abundance of God’s encompassing love and have an appetite for wonder and reverence about the nature of the human person, we, the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, invite you to savour Carolyn Arend’s ‘I Am A Soul’ this Thanksgiving season.
Invitation: see Carolyn ‘live’ at Cup O Joy, Green Bay, WI on December 5, 2009.
Carolyn and Arlan Feiles’ ‘I Wonder’ unite this month [...]

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Read About Franciscan Sisters’ Memories of NCYC

November 19, 2009

After watching the gallery of photos, can you guess which state each of these hat-wearing young people are from? The Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity are among 20,000 pilgrims that accepted the invitation of the Diocese of Kansas City/St. Joseph and the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas to encounter Jesus Christ in the NCYC (National Catholic Youth Conference), November 19-21, 2009. [...]

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Enjoy Feasting on Arlan Feiles’ ‘I Wonder’

November 16, 2009

Celebrating an abundance of God’s goodness this harvest season, the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity invite you to feast on Arlan Feiles’ powerful, reflective song,  ‘I Wonder’. Contemplate wonderful, insightful lyrics, a singer songwriter compared to Dylan or Simon, with a flair for majestic, yet simple melodies. His music is shaped with the Thanksgiving spirit of a strong sense of justice and [...]

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Twelve Reasons Why FSCC Discernment Retreat was Life-Changing

November 15, 2009

The Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity hosted a discernment retreat (an opportunity for young women to gather together to seriously contemplate religious life as an option in their lives) November 13-15, 2009 at their Motherhouse in Manitowoc, WI. Twelve retreatants, ages 19-36, filled out an on-line website registration form after hearing about the weekend through a conversation with one [...]

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