Giving Voice is excited to announce three new Core Team members, Kathryn Press ASJC, Christa Parra, IBVM, and Chioma Ahanihu, SLW! Thank you Sisters, for saying "yes" to serving in this leadership capacity. We can't wait to see what you will bring to our network!
"It was really a privilege to be asked to represent Giving Voice at the RFC congress this year. Being a part of Giving Voice has been a blessing for me especially as an immigrant in a religious congregation that is predominantly Caucasian, and where there is a large age and experience gap between me and several of my Sisters."
We are thrilled to announce that after several months of work, Giving Voice’s new website is live! Our website will provide an extensive internal sister-only portal with an interactive map and online directory tool to search for sisters across the US & world, a wiki-section where sisters can post and edit information to share, a “conversations” section where sisters can discuss topics close to their hearts, and an “events” section where sisters can submit local and national, live and in-person events to a collective calendar!
Giving Voice will open our office during National Vocation Awareness Week Nov 3-9 for a new event, a “Meet Our Sisters Chicago Tour.” The #2019MeetOurSisters tour is being organized in collaboration with Chicago-area members of Communicators for Women Religious, an organization of which Giving Voice both partners and collaborates.
Giving Voice Sisters who have made first or perpetual vows are invited to participate in an anonymous, 25-question survey entitled “Women Religious and the New Cosmology.” The survey serves as an initial investigation into a research project being carried out by Laurie Brink, OP and Rhonda Miska, OP: “How does Jesus Christ function within the New Cosmology, and what are the implications of that role for Catholic Women Religious for whom a relationship with Christ is constitutive of their vocation?”
This year, the Giving Voice 20s & 30s Retreat theme is "Friendship with God: A Sending."
Giving Voice uses the principles of The Circle Way as a basic format for our gatherings.
This year's retreat will be facilitated by Sisters Mandy Carrier and Katherine Frazier.
Join Catholic Sister Peers in their 40s for a weekend of community, prayer and relaxation!
The 2020 Giving Voice 40s Retreat will be held at Stella Maris Beach House in Seal Beach, CA.
In the fall, many Sisters are in periods of transition, whether it be through ministries, school, moving locations or making vows. This is a constant gift and challenge in the lives of Sisters. Core Team member Jessi Beck asked our Giving Voice network to provide bits of advice, wisdom and stories from what Sisters have learned during times of transition.
Giving Voice will open our office during National Vocation Awareness Week Nov 3-9 for a new event, a “Meet Our Sisters Chicago Tour.” The "Meet Our Sisters Chicago Tour" is being organized in collaboration with Chicago-area members of Communicators for Women Religious.
Registration for the 20s & 30s Retreat and the 40s Retreat will be open SOON so watch your emails in coming weeks. For now, save the date for BOTH the 20s & 30s and 40s Retreats being over Martin Luther King Weekend - January 17-19, 2020.