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Laudato Si’ Week: Celebrating the Fifth Anniversary of Pope Francis’ Encyclical Letter
May 18, 2020
This week, Catholics around the world are celebrating the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ landmark encyclical letter, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home—the first papal letter focused entirely on the Catholic Church’s teachings on the environment and human ecology. In his invitation for all to take part in Laudato Si’ Week, Pope Francis...
Read MoreEveryday Redeeming Love: A Reflection for Your Next Sunrise
May 12, 2020
People strolling through neighborhoods to find a way out of the maze of claustrophobia in our collective self-isolation, social distancing, sheltering in place. To paraphrase the psalmist, people are desperate to live, breathe and have their being during this coronavirus time. A long walk and eyes stopping short. In the middle of the meticulously manicured garden a...
Read MoreDeath and New Life – God’s Paschal Mystery is Giving me Hope, a Reflection by Sr. Katharina Pies
May 12, 2020
Working as a chaplain at a nursing home during a pandemic is challenging. My residents are not able to see their family and friends. As much as FaceTime is a blessing during this time, it is the human touch that is missing. I realize nothing is more needed than a hug, a handshake, and a...
Read MoreNewsletter – May 2020
May 6, 2020
Upcoming Events Currently our regular public events are on hold as the world experiences this Pandemic. We look forward with hope to the time we can gather again to celebrate the gift of community and faith. Feast of the Redeemer – also known affectionately as Redeemer Day by our Congregation in Germany, Tanzania and the...
Read MoreEveryday Redeeming Love: Ramadan and Redeemer Ministry
April 28, 2020
National news heralding the Minneapolis story of Mayor Jacob Frey working with the Muslim community by issuing a noise permit to allow the 5-times daily call to prayer to be broadcast through speakers to thousands. In doing so, worshipers could be united safely through sound, if not by shared space. Passover, Easter and now Ramadan celebrating...
Read MoreEveryday Redeeming Love: A Little Less than Angels
April 6, 2020
Some questions in life dizzy us like a “not-so-merry” go-round, making us sick with frustration, even anguish. Never more true than the why of human suffering. Beginning with an unintelligible birth cry of the first human being wiggling from the darkness of the womb, every person asks the why in cries, prayers and conversations, alone, with God, together. In...
Read MoreA Healing Presence in a Hurting World: A Reflection from Sr. Kimberly Kessler
April 4, 2020
True to the Charism of Blessed Alphonse Maria Eppinger and Redeemer Spirituality, our Sisters are serving those in need in many ways during this pandemic. In addition to offering prayers, Sisters of the Redeemer are offering steadfast support to Holy Redeemer Health System patients, residents, and employees through pastoral care, educating today’s youth through new...
Read MoreEveryday Redeeming Love: The Cry of Those Poor
March 30, 2020
“The tears of one child…the tear is a cry that is bigger than all the universe together with its matter and anti-matter, and multiverse…everything to me is questioned by the tear of suffering of one innocent child.” The late Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete, Vatican Theologian and Scientist Covid-19 rains downs numbers every day with such...
Read MoreNewsletter – April 2020
March 30, 2020
Upcoming Events Due to the unprecedented Covid-19 crisis our events for the month of April have been cancelled. Like you, we are seeking ways to celebrate Holy Week and Easter in a meaningful way. We, the Sisters of the Redeemer are praying for you and your loved ones at this time as well as for...
Read MoreEveryday Redeeming Love: Do You See What I See?
March 25, 2020
Jammed bars overflowing on crammed sidewalks into the street, these pictures from television and social media are so alarming. Why were these mostly young people not heeding the dire warnings of health care experts and government leaders to the only known effective remedy to this alarming pandemic, “social distancing”? The answer: this virus is invisible...
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