TBT: The Selma Effect

For this week's edition of Throwback Thursday we'd like to share an article published earlier this week on Global Sisters Report. Sr. Margaret Ellen Traxler, SSND, was one of the Catholic sisters who marched from Selma 50 years ago - an experience which led her to become more deeply involved in that movement. This excellent article explains how sisters wound up at the famous march, why their presence became important, and what the impact of Selma has been on sisters across the country in the decades since. Well worth a read!

Where is God Calling You Day 8

This week (March 8-14) Sisters in the United States will be celebrating National Catholic Sisters Week. In hopes of encouraging Vocations throughout the World the School Sisters of Notre Dame will be praying a Novena for an increase in vocations and for young women in discernment. We invite you to also spend the next 9 days praying about where God may be calling you.

"We reflect on our individual call to religious life and we pray for young women in discernment as they discern their vocation that they may humbly walk with God." -Vocation Ministry Team

View the Video, We are Called, for a short reflection on being open to the call of God in your life. http://youtu.be/CDljPsRIryo

O Holy Spirit, enlighten me, 

Strengthen me, 

So that I shall understand 

And Know my divine call, 

Who I am, 

What I should be.

And what I must do,

As well as the means 

By which these ends

My be accomplished.

Amen 

 (Blessed Theresa of Jusus Gerhardinger

Foundress of the School Sisters of Notre Dame)

HOW IS GOD CALLING YOU?