Posts by Kaitlin Seebruch

By Sister Jane Barman, SDSMilwaukee, Wisconsin For their birthdays, we asked Salvatorian Sisters to recommend a piece of media (book, poem, movie, etc.) that changed their perspective. Sister Jane Barman, SDS recommends Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, the book we read for our ‘Turn the Page’ discussion for 2020 Catholic Sisters Week. “When I read…

By Sister Margaret Bosch, SDSMilwaukee, Wisconsin For their birthdays, we asked Salvatorian Sisters to recommend a piece of media (book, poem, movie, etc.) that changed their perspective. While Sister Margaret Bosch doesn’t have a book, article, or poem that changed her perspective, she does have an experience. “Two happenings occurred rather unexpectedly within a six…

Blog and photos by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDSKateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota I enjoy participating, and learning, as part of an online photography community called “Viewbug.” The most helpful thing is seeing the work of thousands of professional and non-professional photographers and the second most helpful things is the critique offered on whatever I…

Reflection by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDSKateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota In winter Darkness falls from the wide prairie skyAll at once Scattering white tail deer as they peruse the farmer’s bare fields replete with stubble,Wrinkling old snow,Blowing its pieces across the county roadRight where it meets the tribal road,Making it suddenly difficult to navigateSuch…

Blog Post & Photos by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDSKateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota Each week, Salvatorian pastor Fr. Paul Portland emails me a copy of his homily. We started years ago, when I was a member of his parish. The parish could no longer provide sign interpreters, but he agreed to share a print…

Blog Post & Photos by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDSKateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota Do you have a favorite place where you can sense how close you are to the sacred? For some, it is in a church or in the presence of a favorite person.  For me, it has always been the woods. In…

Blog Post by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDSKateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota … that the Sisseton Arts Council has pleasantly surprised me by supporting and installing artwork by a local Indigenous artist. In the past five years, we have seen several efforts by the local Arts Council to include local Native artists in producing public…

By Sister Patrice Colletti, SDSKateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota Waaaay back last school year… when my Dakota Immersion Class reading students were still struggling to sound out words like “cat” and “hit,” I had one student who was significantly ahead of everyone else. They were on letter sounds and short words. She was already…