Learn more about Giving Voice's Leadership Initiative Scholarship through the experiences of awardees Sister Jenny Zimmerman, who is attending the Leadership Collaborative Development Program through the scholarship, and Sister Mandy Carrier as she learns Spanish through the scholarship!
The Giving Voice Core team welcomes Sister Belinda Monahan, OSB from the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago, as our newest member!
Join us next January 18-20 in Phoenix, AZ for Giving Voice’s peer-led weekend of prayer, relaxation and community. Visit our website to learn more and sign up today for our 20 & 30s Retreat 2019: Staying at the Table: Our Commitment to Community.
Calling all sisters in their 20s & 30s! Join us next January 18-20 in Phoenix, AZ for Giving Voice’s peer-led weekend of prayer, relaxation and community. Register today for our 20 & 30s Retreat 2019: Staying at the Table: Our Commitment to Community.
As trees let their leaves go, what do you need to let go of to provide room for new life? Pray with this question & more, with Giving Voice's Autumn Reflection Guide, compiled by Sister Ana Gonzalez!
Giving Voice welcomes Sister Thuy Tran to the Core Team! Sister Thuy is a Sister of St Joseph currently living in Orange County, CA. Her current ministry is Director of Community Relations, at St. Joseph Hospital. Check out her thoughts on Giving Voice & the future of religious life!
This month in “Making Vows” meet Giving Voice participants Sister Nicole Varerin, a Sister of Notre Dame who professed first vows this past February; Sister Mary Therese Perez, OP, a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose who made her final vows this August; and Sister Reyna Badillo, a Sister of St Francis who made first vows this past June.
In honor of a season full of younger sisters making vows, Giving Voice reached out to interview participants who have recently, or will soon be making this sacred journey. Click through to read interviews with Sister Michelle Garlinski, snjm, Sister Romina Sapinoso, and Sister Christina Chávez, CDP!
Being in mass I could not help starting to reflect again. The church that I attended this Sunday is usually full of children. Whenever I go there I am usually distracted looking at how they behave, some of them sing, some fight, some laugh, they smile. I rejoice at this sign of hope. It was not like that today. Today, I felt sad for them. I also felt curious about their parents and some admiration. How is it possible that an institution that does not protect its children is full of them?
This past July I was blessed with the opportunity to travel to Oaxaca, Mexico, to the Instituto Cultural Spanish Language/Immersion School after receiving a scholarship from Giving Voice. After entering the Sisters of Providence in 2012, I was encouraged by my Sisters who spoke Spanish to pursue my education of the Spanish language. I recall Sister Florence Norton saying, “Joni, the language is in you. You just have to let it bloom.”
