Peace & Justice Update
Thursday Webinar
Please take note of this webinar scheduled for tomorrow, September 12 at 1 p.m. ET to gain new insight on the plight of refugees: “Afghan Refugees: Three years out from Taliban takeover.”
Iqbal Ahmad, an Afghani refugee, will take a closer look at life under Taliban rule and the status of Afghan refugees in other countries. He graduated from the American University of Afghanistan and worked as an analyst for the Ministry of the Interior under the former Afghan government. He is an intern at the Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns, completing his master’s in International Peace Studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame.
Discussion Scheduled This Evening
"NETWORK" invites you to a conversation happening tonight at 7 p.m. ET about the importance of participating in our political process through multi-issue voting in White Supremacy and American Christianity: We Choose Freedom. The purpose is to explore how and when we exercise our freedom to participate in our country’s public life, and how to ensure the future of all the freedoms we enjoy. Please see this for more information.
Congregational News
Kentucky Retreat Ready to Welcome Discerners
The vocations team is happily anticipating the upcoming "Come and See Retreat" (September 13-15) in St. Catharine.
They will be welcoming a student from Ohio Dominican University and another from Malloy University. Three other discerners also taking part include a teacher from Ohio, a software engineer from Virginia and a dental hygienist from Texas.
Please keep all of these women and everyone on the retreat team in prayer.
Memorial Mass
As was noted in Monday’s OPPeace News, the Advancement Office is planning for the annual Memorial Mass Webcast, which will be streamed from the Columbus Motherhouse Chapel on Saturday, November 2 at 7 pm EST. The last day to ask to include the name of a deceased family member, friend or loved one is September 30, 2024. Please remember, the Memorial Mass will specifically honor those deceased between October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024. Please send the names of those deceased during that time period to Sr. Gene Poore, OP, at gene.poore@oppeace.org.
St. Catharine Farm Appreciation Day Highlights – NEW LINK
Many readers had trouble accessing the link to the St. Catharine Farm Day video that we posted on Monday. Please click here to view on YouTube. We apologize for the inconvenience.
The Season of Creation is in Full Swing!
The celebration began on September 1 and will continue through the end of September.
As Dominican Sisters of Peace and Associates, we’d like to celebrate this month by sharing images of how we enjoy and care for creation. Our goal is to fill our social media feeds with pictures of Sisters, Associates, and employees gardening, hiking, meditating...really whatever you do to enjoy our precious Earth!
If you want to take part, please send your photos to: Ashley.Apollonio@oppeace.org. To help us create the social media post, please include a caption or information about who is in the photo and what is happening. You could include answers to either or both of these questions:
- What does the season of creation mean to me?
- How are you celebrating the season of creation?
Get Involved: A Day of Prayer for Peace
Saturday, September 21 is the International Day of Prayer for Peace. Sr. Carol Davis has prepared a simple service that you can use in your community or with your family to mark this day. Click here to download the service. We want to flood our social media feeds with photos of Sisters, Associates, staff and those we serve in our ministries over the weekend of the Prayer for Peace.
If you’d like to be a part of the display, take a picture of yourself, another Sister or Associate, or someone at your ministry holding our “Prayer for Peace” sign and send to Ashley.Apollonio@oppeace.org. You can download the English version of the sign here, or the Spanish version of the sign here.
Employment Opportunity
Executive Director Position
Unanima International, an NGO that advocates on behalf of women, children and girls who are facing serious problems such as poverty and human trafficking is searching for an executive director. Please click here???? to find out more.
Death In Our Family
Sr. Carol Gerke (Great Bend, KS, carol.gerke@oppeace.org) requests prayer for her brother, Cecil Gerke, upon his passing early this morning. Prayer for his family including his wife, Linda and four children is also appreciated.
Associate Joe Perez, Garden City, KS, joevp777@gmail.com) requests prayer for Deacon Martin Hermicillo on his passing yesterday morning. Please pray for the repose of the soul of Deacon Martin and comfort for his loved ones.
Prayer Requests
- Sr. Teresita Lipar (Waterford, MI, tlipar@oppeace.org) requests prayer for the repose of the soul of Matilda Makohus who died at the age of 96 after a short illness. Matilda was the blood sister of Joseph Gazda, OP, the first American Superior of the former Oxford congregation.
- Associate Linda Borowsky (Cobleskill, NY, dove21@aol.com) requests prayer for her husband Ed, who has thyroid eye disease. He has started a new treatment.
- Jackie Paluszak, OPA (Galena, OH, paluszak8@gmail.com) requests prayer from Sisters and Associates after experiencing a very serious fall.
- Associate Diane LeMay (Westerville, OH, caminopilgrim11@aol.com) has requested prayer for Associates Judy Unger and Randy Smith. Judy broke her hip and is recovering. Randy is having multiple health issues.
- Muriel Laliberte, OPA (Alexandria, VA, Muriel256@aol.com) requests prayers for her roommate, Linda Goff, OPA, who fell in the apartment and injured her knee.
Updates/Notes of Gratitude
Associate Geneva Brungardt (Storm Lake, IA, genevabrungardt123@gmail.com) is grateful for the prayer offered for her brother-in-law, Larry Peterson, over the past week. He has been released from the hospital and continues to recover at home from the pneumonia and a blood clot in his lung. Continued prayer is also appreciated. Geneva sends this message: God bless you!