By Deacon Bruce Carlson Covid-19 has kept us from traveling to our mission partners around the world in 2021. However, it hasn’t kept us from supporting them. Funds raised during last years Faith Promise Appeal helped to send a container to Bolivia. A pallet and boxes to the Philippines. We have an order placed for … Continue reading Return to Mission →

Using clean water from Sawyer PointONE Filters, Water Women have teamed up to create and sell fresh bread in their community Baking Better Bread With Pure Water About a year ago we reported on the great mission work being done in Bolivia by the Diocese of Joliet (Illinois). Around that time, the Diocese sent a … Continue reading In Bolivia, Bringing Clean Water and Building Community →

by Nancy Schramm, OSF Did you notice how long it took the leaves to change colors this year? As is my custom, I went to St. Francis Woods for my yearly retreat in October, imaging the beauty of God’s artistry that I would see and contemplate during the week. I was not blessed with that … Continue reading Faith Is Our Spiritual Flannel →

by Nancy Schramm, OSF Recently at the parish where I minister and worship, we had a guest priest from Africa sharing his story of ministry and evangelization amidst the many challenges that his country faces. All of the world has similar challenges in various degrees, but Uganda, which, I, too, have visited, has an alarming … Continue reading What the World Needs Now →

by Nancy Schramm, OSF On October 24th our Church will be celebrating World Mission Sunday which is promulgated by the Pontifical Mission Societies located in the Vatican. Each country has their own national office and ours is in New York. This is what their website says about this special day: “This year’s theme for World … Continue reading World Mission Sunday: Send Me, Lord. I will go! →

By Deacon Bruce Carlson Twenty-five years ago today, I was a few days away from leaving for my first mission to Sucre, Bolivia. There was no question in my mind I was doing the right thing. I was part of a mission team that had prepared for several months. Yet, the seeds of mission were … Continue reading Opportunities →

by Nancy Schramm, OSF Perhaps you have seen the commercial on TV with Kevin Hart who is so excited about a new credit card for dining purposes, so he shouts to his neighbors about the money he is earning. First he shouts to one neighbor, then turns to another and shouts about it again and … Continue reading ‘Cause that’s what I do! →

by Nancy Schramm, OSF “There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, … Continue reading One Human Family, One Human World →

by Nancy Schramm, OSF With all the challenges we are facing today it is important to have a routine for integrating our stress and seeking ways to diminish its effect on us. A doctor once told me, “Avoid stress.” I was tempted to ask him from which planet he came, but my polite side conquered … Continue reading The Sound of Silence →

by Nancy Schramm, OSF Twenty years later. It seems like a long time and yet most of us will remember where we were and what we were doing when we heard about the attack on the Twin Towers. I was in Brazil in the kitchen cooking when one of the sisters came running to me … Continue reading What Memories Are For →