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Elizabeth Avalos, BVM has recommended both of the scholarship recipients featured in this edition of Salt. Elizabeth has supported Maria C. Ramirez Medrano in her goals of earning her medical assistant certificate and Maria Lorena Sanchez in her pursuit of…
Teachers Become Students What is this? Another flyer in our mailbox! Inviting us to grow?! I’m already 85 years old! How much more can I grow? My mind began to toss around the words on the invitation: contemplative, ecology, spirituality, justice,…
St. Francis Xavier School in Phoenix (SFX) is currently working on a remodel of their library. During planning, staff and faculty expressed a desire to have something hanging from the high ceilings in the new space. Development Director Anne Sanford…
Office of BVM Life and Mission invites you to Community in Change with Caprice Jones, executive director and founder of Fountain of Youth in Dubuque, Iowa. Caprice will share his personal journey which led him on a mission to “change…
Gifts of Love: Sisters of Charity, BVM gathered at Mount Carmel Bluffs in Dubuque, Iowa, to purchase items needed by Venezuelan immigrants arriving in Chicago. The outreach gifts, purchased via Rapid Response Wish List on Amazon, are intended to help…
Graphic provided by Bay Area Conference of Associates and Religious You are with us, Holy Spirit, as we gather together in Your name. As You guide us, make Yourself at home in our hearts. Teach us the way to go…
As women of the Church we are inspired and motivated by the vision and courage of Mary, the Mother of God, and of Mary Frances Clarke. BVM Constitutions, 1 Often, individually and together, we BVM sisters and associates have looked…
Welcome and congratulations to six new associates for asking for and receiving the gift of association! Ann Hoefer We welcomed Ann Hoefer, from Dubuque, Iowa, as a BVM associate on Sept. 24. BVMs Liz Olsen, Theresa Caluori, Judy Callahan, and…
Lou Anglin, BVM (above) served as Vice President on the BVM Council from 2016 until her passing on May 29, 2022. As we have celebrated the gift Lou Anglin, BVM was to our community, I heard more than once the…
My journey has involved so much serendipity that it verges on a fantasy. It began in 1974 during an inmate-led tour of a medium-security prison in Colorado and brought me to the ministry of “Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution Education” in…