Poetry, reflections, and a commemoration of Sister Susan Dewitt, CSJP.

by Jan Linley

Sister Suzanne Golas grew up in New Jersey spending summers at the beach where a lifelong love affair with the sea began.

by Frank McCann, CSJP-A

We are reminded daily about the growing threat of climate change, but we hear much less often about the radical revolution required in our global food system. What we eat affects our planet’s health.

by Bryan Johns, CSJP-A

We pull up in our trusty 1999 Honda Odyssey van, in the redlined no-parking zone, curbside and we unload.

by Rita Loren

In Christianity, the heart symbolizes the center or core of our being, from which prayer and moral actions originate.

by Liz Dodd, CSJP Candidate

“My grandmother was very specific: you will know your vocation by the joy it brings you,” said Dorothy Day’s granddaughter, Kate Hennessy, as she sat across from me in my office on a drizzly afternoon in March.

by Stephanie Peirolo, CSJP-A

My granddaughter, who is almost two years old, recently discovered the concept of emptiness.

by Susan Rose Francois, CSJP

Human beings and human community are hardwired for connection and love.

Waterspirit is a center of ecology and spirituality that informs, inspires, and enables all people to deepen their consciousness of the sacredness and interdependence of all creation with a focus on water as critical in sustaining life.

In 1978, the Irish Section of Pax Christi, the international Catholic peace movement, asked the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace to consider coming to Dublin, Ireland to work for peace and justice.

When chaos surrounds us—especially on a large scale that blends the personal drama with the world stage—it can be hard to keep our bearings.

by Frank McCann, CSJP-A

Water is one of our most precious resources, one that many of us take for granted.

by Susan Rose Francois, CSJP

When the very first Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace professed vows on January 7, 1884 in Nottingham at Our Lady Chapel in St. Barnabas Cathedral, they did so in the presence of Bishop Edward Gilpin Bagshawe.

No matter what is happening in the world, there is always a population of disenfranchised, underserved, and usually poor, who are struggling.

by Susan Dewitt, CSJP

Love my enemy, do good to those who hate me, bless those who curse me, pray for those who mistreat me – how do I begin to do that?

by Christabel McCooey

I have a confession to make. I have been avoiding news about Brexit like the plague.

by Sheila Lemieux, CSJP

Recently, my niece Megan came to me expressing how troubled she was regarding the Church’s response to the abuse of children, as well as by all the other disturbing events happening in our world today.

by Cristina Turino

Since their earliest days, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace had expressed an interest in the care and instruction of the blind poor.

by Max Lewis, CSJP-A

As a card-carrying neurotic, I expected my first inpatient hospital experience to be awful.

by Katrina Alton, CSJP

The phrase “illegal immigrant” has become common parlance to describe men, women, and children, who because of economic poverty, can’t buy their way out of countries crucified by war and terrorism, or droughts and floods.