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meet ssj associate Tom Hudson
A physical therapist, Tom retired from Gannon University where he was an Assistant Professor and taught Pediatrics and Adult Neurology for twenty years. He also worked part-time for 35 years, retiring in June 2018, from the Erie Homes for Children and Adults as a therapist. In his bio that he submitted when he became an…
Read Moremeet SSJ Associates Ted and Mary Wright
Spring has sprung! I feel a renewed sense of ambition and wanted to know what other associates are doing to spread the charism. I was blessed to speak with Mary Wright. Mary and her husband, Ted, became associates in 2008. Sr. Mary Alice Reed was their mentor. Mary and Ted moved to Beaverton, OR in…
Read Morea Good Friday pilgrimage and the SSJ mission
SSJ Associate Stephanie Hall, who many know is also our Director of Public Relations and Communications, embarked on a spiritual journey during Holy Week. Stephanie, who has been making personal retreats in the desert of New Mexico for a few years, recently learned about a Holy Week pilgrimage to El Santuario de Chimayo in the…
Read MoreEternal Life – A Shared Experience of Awe
Living a Responsible Lent – Caring for our Common Home – Week 6 “Eternal Life will be a shared experience of awe, in which each creature, resplendently transfigured, will take its rightful place and have something to give to those poor men and women who will have been liberated once and for all.” Pope Francis…
Read MoreDuty to Care for Creation Through Little Daily Actions
Living a Responsible Lent – Caring for our Common Home – Week 5 “There is a nobility in the duty to care for creation through little daily actions, and it is wonderful how education can bring about real changes in lifestyle.” Pope Francis – Laudato Si 211 When looking for solutions to the problems of…
Read MoreA Plastic Ocean – Film Screening
The Sisters of St. Joseph Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation Team is sponsoring a screening of the film, A Plastic Ocean, on the Big Green Screen at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, 301 Peninsula Drive in Erie on Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 2 p.m. Admission is free but reservations are required. Come and learn…
Read MoreThe World is a Gift We Leave to Future Generations
Living a Responsible Lent – Caring for our Common Home – Week 4 “Once we start to think about the kind of world we are leaving to future generations, we look at things differently; we realize that the world is a gift we have freely received and must share with others.” Pope Francis – Laudato…
Read MoreBe Free From Obsession With Consumption
Living a Responsible Lent – Caring for our Common Home – Week 3 “Christian spirituality … encourages a prophetic and contemplative lifestyle, one capable of deep enjoyment free of the obsession with consumption.” Pope Francis – Laudato Si 222 Pope Francis tells us in Chapter 3 of “Caring for our Common Home” that the gifts…
Read MoreLiving a Responsible Lent – We Have Only One Heart
Living a Responsible Lent – Caring for our Common Home – Week 2 “We have only one heart, and the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationship with other people.” Pope Francis – Laudato Si 92 This week as we read The Gospel…
Read MoreGive Someone a Kindness Card!
Sisters of St. Joseph are introducing “kindness cards” which are small cards given to anyone you see doing an act of kindness. “If we acknowledge and reinforce kindness when we see it, we believe it will foster more kind acts,” said Mary Herrmann, SSJ. “We encourage everyone to use the kindness cards to acknowledge and…
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