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National Gathering

Every two years the Giving Voice network offers a sacred space for young Catholic women religious to gather for relationship-building and networking, dialogue and collaboration, prayer and reflection.

2017 Giving Voice National Gathering - Until We Meet Again from Giving Voice on Vimeo.

Information from past gatherings can be accessed below.

Summer 2019: Location and dates to be determined

July 6-9, 2017: Poised to Lead: Healing Divisions & Building Bridges (Iona College, New Rochelle, NY)

August 6-9, 2015: Crossing Boundaries in Religious Life (Savior Pastoral Center, Kansas City, KS)

July 5-8, 2013: Mission & Ministry in the 21st Century (Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA)

July 21-24, 2011: Engage the Emergence (Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL)

Stand Where You are Supposed To Be Standing

It has been a slow spring: our last large snowfall here in Racine Wisconsin occurring on April 16. Now that spring has sprung, it is a time of renewed activity amongst all living creatures: from the birds to the squirrels to the bees. So too amongst the plants and trees: from the flowers springing up, tulips and daffodils and grape hyacinths, to the sprouting of seeds and the bursting buds on trees.

40s Retreat Brings Together Sisters from 18 Communities, 9 Countries

“Where we’re going we don’t need roads: Pioneering Women, Carrying our Charisms into the Future”, the peer-led retreat for women religious between ages 40-49 featured prayer sessions, meditations and discussions, beginning Friday night reflecting on the question: “What are our communities’ charisms? How do our communities’ charisms intersect and work on a global scale?”