Sister Virginia Honish’s 2023 Birthday Reflection

In celebration of our sisters’ birthdays in 2023, we asked them to share an age they would like to go back to. On her birthday, Sister Virginia shares her reflection on multiple ages that provided her with great challenges and great blessings. By Sister Virginia Honish, SDSMilwaukee, Wisconsin Reflecting on my life, I realized there…

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Ranjani’s Difficult Lot

By Ursula SchultenReporting from Amman, Jordan Tens of thousands of women from Southeast Asia are migrants looking for work in Middle Eastern countries as domestic workers, in textile factories or the hospitality industry. But quite a few migrant workers fail to find jobs even far from home. The Salvatorian Sisters in Amman, Jordan take care…

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2022 Birthday Perspective: Sister Mary Lee Grady, SDS

By Sister Mary Lee Grady, SDSMilwaukee, Wisconsin For their birthdays, we asked Salvatorian Sisters to recommend a piece of media (book, poem, movie, etc.) that changed their perspective. Sister Mary Lee Grady, SDS reflects on The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and an quote that’s resonated with her since childhood. My favorite book is The…

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Sun Dogs!

Blog by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDSKateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota Check out the “sun dogs” seen over the tribal college! Very cool! Well, actually, very COLD as it was -4 when this picture was taken! What’s a sun dog, you ask? It’s those two glowing things on each side of the sun. Sometimes, if…

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2022 Birthday Perspective: Sister Virginia Honish, SDS

For their birthdays, we asked Salvatorian Sisters to recommend a piece of media (book, poem, movie, etc.) that changed their perspective. Sister Virginia Honish shared a couple quotes from two books that put her life experiences and beliefs about prayer and ministry into words. Her belief about prayer, “Being in the present with your eyes…

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Visitor!

Blog Post & Photos by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDSKateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota Sister Betty Vetter enjoyed a brief visit to Sisseton this past week. The fun began with a visit to the petroglyph site near Jeffers, MN. These petroglyphs were created between 2,000 and 5,000 years ago. There are over 5,000 pecked into…

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Simple giving makes all the difference

Jackie B. first met the Salvatorian Sisters in the late ‘80s while searching for a spiritual retreat. Her then-pastor suggested meeting one-on-one with Sister Pat Kieler, SDS in Milwaukee. Coming from out of town, she stayed on the top floor of Mother of Good Counsel convent, or as Jackie calls it, “the Old Convent.”

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Back-to-School Days

Blog Post & Photos by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDSKateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota If you’re like me, seeing the piles of lined paper, the tubs of pencils or pens, and the line-up of colorful lunch boxes at “back to school” sales can still bring a happy sigh. This past week, children returned to the…

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A Day in the Life of One Migrant

By Sister Darlene Pienschke, SDSDesert Mission – Tucson, Arizona Today I worked in the medical department and visited a young man in his 20s from Honduras, recovering from a poisonous snake bite, most probably a Diamondback Rattler, as asserted by doctors. This is DB’s story.  DB was making his risky journey across the unknown Arizona desert to…

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