LCWR Sponsors Collaborative Leadership Hubs Group 6: The statistical report of our own congregation when compared to the national stats show that we are in a good place, actually the right place to start talking about future plans. h8OTlFeE25?dlz^f,bg%0gG@ oeDc\U0w9wDR!p\{^.-k%Q8%u__|YO PK ! O/6|HLlN;L. They presented three initiatives that are intended to respond to those challenges: A five-year commitment to work on dismantling racism; a designated fund to support the future of religious life in the United States; and a national conversation on the emerging future of religious life. The May virtual round table featured: Erin McDonald, CSJ and Kathryn Press, ASCJ from Giving Voice; Deborah Borneman from the National Religious Vocation Conference; and At the 2022 assembly in August, Munley presented an update on the process, specifically the five Collaborative Leadership Hubs held across the United States between April and June in which leaders contemplated, discussed and discerned the emerging future of religious life. Required fields are marked *. How to most faithfully respond to these times? 1&9;Q0 Select any of the newsletters below, then enter your email address and click "subscribe", Stories of climate, crisis, faith and action, Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Arlington nun's conversation with Fort Worth bishop played in court, 'Prayer is life': Sisters share how they pray, and how that prayer evolved, Monday Starter: Wisconsin congregation sells motherhouse to developers, Allegations of adultery and abuse of power embroil Texas bishop, Carmelite monastery in complex scandal, Portugal celebrates 'venerable' declaration for Ftima visionary, Sister Lucia, Pope Francis invites top US allies Cupich, McElroy, Fr. It's a challenge, but it's also a possibility, and I think there's a great comfort from that. Report is a sobering reality. Learn more. Questions about this initiative may be directed to LCWR associate director Anne Munley, IHM atamunley@lcwr.org. We're on this journey together, and we can help each other on the journey. by Mary Hughes, OP LCWR What had seemed like a mess on paper, in fact, was a network calibrated and ready to ring out. One is that there's now a great diversity in the leadership in congregations, particularly in international congregations.
The Emerging Orientations | LCWR The way forward involves fruit salad and connections Contact Us: 14500 Bustleton Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19116-1188 | 215-968-4236 The LCWR national board approved seeding the fund with $1 million, some of the proceeds from the sale of its Silver Spring, Maryland, headquarters in 2018. Common themes emerged in the conversation. There is attachment. They voiced support for the LCWR emerging orientations as a way to create the space for whatever God is birthing anew to live, breathe, and be loved into existence. Imagine an old-time operator's station, complete with wires and plugs, but digitized. LCWR engaged a process to help create the space for what is emerging in religious life to take root, develop, and grow all in Gods time and with Gods grace. They provide a framework in which we can pray, reflect, discern, act, plan, and choose as we embrace our time as holy, our leadership as gift and our challenges as blessing.
As we gazed upon the mess on the screen, we wondered aloud how so many conversations could happen at once. VISION Vocation Network, the most comprehensivemultimedia resource for those discerning a religious vocation, welcomes more than 350,000 visitors each year to its website VocationNetwork.org. In addition to establishing those initiatives, LCWR revisited its 2019-2022 resolution by having a panel of young women speak to the three social justice issues the conference has committed to prioritize: racism, migration and climate change. 8737 Colesville Road, Suite 610 | Silver Spring, MD 20910301.588.4955 phone | 301.587.4575 fax, Discerniendo Determinando Nuestro Emergente Futuro Esp - Spanish Document, Copyright Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). ))\ U
yH[nHW/5I1A=wj:5uBQ/$Hxd6Qs,;3a Can you describe any of the practical, day-to-day ways that is working out? You can see that in beautiful ways: Even in a congregation moving closer to completion, that passion for the life is there. Or maybe the doing was an outflow or gift of the being, and now we are simply being given different gifts from that being? Allison There is a crisis in the future study of Catholic history in America, and it is an archival crisis.
The morning prayer for both days reflected these themes. It's a powerful time of awareness that we are co-journeyers. In closing the virtual assembly, LCWR leadership blessed Sr. Jane Herb, president of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Monroe, Michigan, as the conference's president-elect, and thanked Wagner for her completed term. Sr. Annmarie is LCWRs director of communications and this year celebrated 25 years as a CWR member.
LCWR president Sr. Jane Herb outlines 'map-shaping' for religious life As I pressed the cellphone to my ear, I heard the sweet sound of the center's recorded welcome, followed by a ringing phone down the hall. This is the time to define our future. "How are we, as women religious, to respond to the pandemic when we ourselves are the most vulnerable to it and our own sisters are falling ill and dying?" We must remain engaged and available.
LCWR leader reflects on racism, religious life today, future of You said, "What younger religious are helping us to see is that our identity is not to be found in institutionalized expressions of what we do, but in who we are and in the quality of the presence that we bring to one another and to the world." From the Hub process, would you say sisters are focused on what appears to be a light disappearing a star going out or on the stardust they are sharing, the seeds of the future? (GSR photo). The call by love to be love for the life of the world.
Spiritual leadership is always about making sense of the times, and it's always drawing us together in to greater oneness.
Conference 2021: Presentations | Communicators for Women Religious How to create the space for newness of life amid our daily realities? And though the 2020 leadership award recipients have already been announced, all four will be honored at next year's assembly in Orlando, Florida. We have so many opportunities to share this life and share that God-quest with other people, so many opportunities for us to grow mutually. Leaders are strongly urged to seriously consider the implications of the current reality of large numbers of aging members in religious communities, along with the entrance into religious orders in the United States of approximately 200 women each year. This is not an ending, but another step in the journey. S4T70y)Lsc
This service-oriented luxury hotel is emerging as a favorite (Helmlinger is now past-president, and Garca is president. Annmarie Sanders, IHM, will provide vital insight for the work of advancing the mission of Catholic sisters in this period of transition and uncertainty. James Martin among others to synod. Many of us participated in two sessions and the feedback from our discussions was submitted to the committee. Immaculate Heart of Mary Sr. Anne Munley, far right, associate director of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' Emerging Life Initiative, facilitates a discussion in Baltimore during the summer series of Collaborative Leadership Hubs. (GSR file photo) Murray grew up in Dublin and says her love of Irish poetry, storytelling and ritual help affirm hope during her 50-year ministry. LCWR represents two-thirds of the 39,452 sisters in the United States; Munley is a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary of Scranton, Pennsylvania. GSR: It would be easy to be depressed by the changes currently taking place in religious life, but it seems the five Collaborative Leadership Hubs brought new understanding and perhaps even inspiration. In pursuit of the moving target that is the future, we come to see that there are many ways to get there. by Brian Lavelle | Oct 28, 2021 | News | 0 comments. WE
LCWR general assembly will tap 'mystical wisdom,' envision emerging future | Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart Clockwise, from top left: Immaculate Heart of Mary Sr. Jane Herb (president-elect), St. Joseph of Philadelphia Sr. Carol Zinn (executive director), St. Joseph of Orange Sr. Jayne Helmlinger (past-president), and Adrian Dominican Sr. Elise Garca (president). Today we have an opportunity to receive information about learnings to date and to consider some possibilities for our institute moving forward. Discerning Our Emerging Future is an initiative created by LCWR to support institutes of women religious as we explore together how collectively to organize for mission at a time of dramatic change.
Emerging Future of Religious Life - Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart Thresholds are the space between, when we move from one time to another, as in the threshold of dawn to day or of dusk to dark; one space to another, as in times of inner or outer journeying Helmlinger, a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange, chose sea vessels as a metaphor for the individual needs of sisters as they embark on the uncharted waters of modern religious life.
PDF Leadership Conference of Women Religious - LCWR Not one discussion or session went by without several sisters raising the issue of racial injustice. This article appears in the LCWR 2020 and Sustainable Development Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions feature series. In the multitude of conversations, it's important that we all continue to keep showing up. t($+UPU^b3I8RvdQRJo~5VlNv4>}I5[j;]-UcP98[8\U`Mq5_(s:Y Throughout the Aug. 12-14 assembly, sisters consistently offered reflections on their white privilege and a revitalized willingness to confront their painful racist histories as congregations.
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