Salvatorian Sentiments

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…

By Carol Thresher, SDSMilwaukee, Wisconsin For their birthdays, we asked Salvatorian Sisters to recommend a piece of media (book, poem, movie, etc.) that changed their perspective. Sister Carol Thresher, SDS shares about the bible translation that changed her relationship with Jesus’s message. During the early 1960s, shortly after I entered the Salvatorian Sisters, I discovered…

Blog by Sister Patrice Colletti, SDSKateri Initiative – Sisseton, South Dakota a. hot and humidb. the  beginning of yellow jacket season c. hot… and also humidd. the last full month before school starts up again in mid-Auguste. annoyingly hot and humidf. a good time to read and think about long blog postings g. Disability Pride…

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…

For their birthdays, we asked Salvatorian Sisters to recommend a piece of media (book, poem, movie, etc.) that changed their perspective. Sister Grace Mary Croft, SDS loves nonfiction especially a good biography. She recommends reading Waking Up White by Debby Irving, our ‘Turn the Page’ book selection for 2019 Catholic Sisters Week. “For me, Debby…

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…

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…

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…