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BVM “Sister Jean” Dolores Schmidt’s memoir, Wake Up With Purpose! What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years was released by Harper Select on Feb. 28, 2023, proceeding the “March Madness” NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Known to millions as simply…
BVMs Karen Conover (l.), Kate (Joseph Marie) Hendel, Carol Marie (Joseph Louis) Baum, Kathryn (John Laurian) Lawlor, Mira Mosle, Diane (Malia) Rapozo, Maureen Patrice Fury, Gwen (Leontia) Farry, Lois Dolphin, LaDonna Manternach, Congregational Secretary Ann Sweeney, and BVMs Jean (Allan)…
Louise Levandowski, BVM crotchets prayer shawls for human trafficking survivors and the homebound. While living in Davenport, Iowa, BVM Louise (Laurina) Levandowski joined a prayer shawl ministry group that was starting at St. Paul the Apostle Parish. After moving to…
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…