Perspectives

Perspectives, the magazine of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration represents the spirit and values shared by the congregation. The following articles reflect the current life and mission of FSPA.

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PERSPECTIVES MAGAZINES

Perspectives - Fall 2012 - pdf

The following articles appear in the Fall 2012 issue of Perspectives:

• Students in Arizona and northern Wisconsin are sent to school with primary practicalities of education
• Sister Fran provides transportation and validation through RSVP
• Sister LaVerne gives support and security to ElderCARE
• My Perspective: Sister helps rebuild city after devastating tornado
• Spirit of Ministry: Affiliate brings art therapy to women in recovery
• Plates of plenty: neighbors in need

 

Perspectives - Spring 2012 - pdf

The following articles appear in the Spring 2012 issue.

• Blessings of immigration for Blanca and FSPA
• Healing, caring and loving Healthy Families
• My Perspective: Hospitality: Inviting strangers to the table
• Spirit of Ministry: One authentic relationship makes peace for two families
• Sister Thea Bowman returns to the stage
• Called. video series features FSPA
• FSPA women in formation featured in The Catholic Times
• Sisters and affiliates support '11 x 15' campaign
  

 

Perspectives - Fall 2011 - pdf

The following articles appear in the Fall 2011 issue of Perspectives magazine:

• International students travel to Viterbo and far beyond with FSPA
• FSPA reaches homeless families with her hands of faith
• My Perspective: Funds support Catholic Charities immigrant ministry
• Spirit of Ministry: Transformation begins at Unity House for Women
• Gifts made from the heart keep on giving
• Two sisters profess vows, continue journey with FSPA
• A Drop in the Bucket: making clean water a reality for El Salvadorans

Perspectives - Spring 2011 - pdf

The following articles appear in the Spring 2011 issue of Perspectives magazine:

• FSPA supports student empowerment through HOPE and HAVEN
• Fostering faith: Sister connects spiritual life and culture
• FSPA welcome two women into religious life - Remember the Promise
• My Perspective: Mentoring inspires and invites others to transform their lives
• Spirit of Ministry: Forging friendships through personal struggles
• Sister shares books and a passion for reading with children
• Exhibitions highlight history of Catholic sisters in America
• FSPA publishes A Chapter of Franciscan History, 1949-1989

Perspectives - Fall 2010 - pdf

The following articles appear in the Fall 2010 issue of Perspectives magazine:

• Sister takes action where the 'fundamentals of life are lacking'
• Ministry grant increases patient access to prescription medicines
• Grant assists families' commitments to Catholic education
• My Perspective: Donors' generosity makes water a reality in two small villages
• Spirit of Ministry: Catholic worker house offers meals, builds relationships
• Interfaith effort provides food and shelter to area's homeless
• Sister Lucy professes final vows, expresses '35 years of heart's desire'
• Orbis Books set to release Enter the Story, Biblical Metaphors for Our Lives

Perspectives - Spring 2010 - pdf

The following articles appear in the Spring 2010 issue of Perspectives magazine:

• Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America offers a look at the history of religious women
• Leaders reflect on the women who inspire them, their institutions
• FSPA educators: celebrating the history and creating the future
• Franciscan spirit flows through Franciscan Common Venture into Bolivia
• Franciscan spirit inspires a life's work for justice, peace
• Sister Romana Klaubauf: planting seeds of health care in foreign mission
• Natural burial option offers sisters a 'simple' return to the earth (.pdf)
• Health care ministry rooted in hospital's opening in 1883
• Orbis Books releases Thea's Song: The Life of Thea Bowman

Perspectives - Fall 2009 - pdf

The following articles appear in the Fall 2009 issue of Perspectives magazine:

• Sister Carolyn's 'loving presence' nurtures Camp Winston kids
• FSPA supports permanent, affordable housing in Coulee Region
• FSPA ministry grants provide care, hope and fun in Zimbabwe
• FSPA ministry grant helps Alabama residents stay in their homes
• Loyal friend and insightful estate planner:103-year-old makes a gift to FSPA
• Sister Ladonna named recipient of Bishop Morneau Award

Perspectives - Spring 2009 - pdf

The following articles appear in the Spring 2009 issue of Perspectives:

• Conference highlights congregations' peacemaking efforts
• FSPA nurse missions for health and humanity in Africa
• FSPA ministry grant helps sustain community meal program
• 8th Day Center for Justice acts as a prophetic voice for FSPA

Perspectives - Fall 2008 - pdf

The following articles appear in the Fall 2008 issue of Perspectives:

• The spirituality of response: fulfilling needs in times of turmoil
• Technology offers new channels for communications with next generation of women religious
• FSPA celebrate new novice and associate
• The vocation of affiliation takes FSPA values mainstream
• FSPA prayer partner program celebrates 10th year

Perspectives - Spring 2008 - pdf

The Spring 2008 issue of Perspectives contains the following articles:

• FSPA explore solutions, big and small, to water crisis
  
• FSPA invests and votes for a 'greener' world environment
  
• Powered down: FSPA affiliate Marilyn Pedretti lives off grid
  
• Feasting, with a conscience: Sisters and affiliates make Franciscan food choices
  
• Gleaning: Previously wasted food satisfies hungry mouths, lean budgets
  

 

PRESENCE NEWSLETTERS

February 2013

• Franciscan Common Venture: gathering a 'circle of women' in Bolivia
• FSPA honor newest centenarian
• Ecospirituality: We must live into hope to ensure sustainability
• 2013 Franciscan Living Challenge: Franciscans Unplugged
• Delegation honors women religious for service in Latin America
• 8th Day Center for Justice collaborates with agencies on human trafficking efforts
• Integrative Therapies celebrates new location with community

 

December 2012

• Reading and responding to the signs of the times 50 years after Vatican II
• Called to serve in a Franciscan institution: leaders gather to discern their call
• Sister leading Washington-based St. Vincent de Paul Society reflects on ministry
• Ecospirituality: Land ethics: reflecting on the teachings of our mentors
• Reverencing water: continue to conserve and protect Sister Water
• FSPA enjoys summer celebration of new affiliates at St. Rose Convent
• New prayer partners commit to praying for the needs of others
• FSPA/prayers partners picnic photos

 

August 2012

• FSPA: a loving legacy of authentic relationships
• Sisters and affiliates give voice to future Franciscans: students join national forum
• Novitiate ceremony: sisters dedicate themselves to following Clare and Francis
• Ecospirituality: Engage in Earth's wonder and allow her to be teacher
• Protecting Sister Water begins with appreciation and education
• Nuns on the Bus' tours United States spreading social justice message
• Groundbreaking for new Bridges of Belonging adult family home
• Affiliates and sister journey together on Assisi pilgrimage

 

May 2012

• FSPA welcomes four new affiliates - two covenants, two in prayer
• Incorporation co-minister and FSPA associates journey to Guatemala
• Service trip to Pittsburgh: building lasting relationships, friendships
• Annual Soul Food Sampler event of Black History Month draws record crowd
• Villa St. Joseph volunteer delights residents with treats and her presence
• The hidden costs of water: how are you using 100 gallons per day?
• Long-time FSPA friend, together with benefactor, gift piano to Villa St. Joseph
• Land sustainability coordinator's efforts improve FSPA land on St. Joseph Ridge
• Our treasured home: Villa St. Joseph has a new look
• Commissioning service held for five new prayer partners

 

February 2012

• Shared ministries: sisters and affiliates connect and exude Franciscan spirituality
• Sisters, affiliate prepare for event dedicated to celebrate Clare of Assisi
• Women & Spirit, Catholic Sisters in America: documentary now available on DVD
• Ecospirituality: Hope awakens the vision, moves us closer to God
• Affiliates call one another to reverence water in the new year
• FSPA honored for military ministry
• Eagle Scout: 'My Franciscan Sister Godmother has helped to shape me'
• A Drop in the Bucket: water becomes reality for El Salvador villages

December 2011

• Sister Sarah professes perpetual vows with 'love and gratitude'
• Annual sponsorship conference aims to build community, further Gospel work
• In Nebraska and New Mexico, two sisters impart FSPA ministry
• Affiliation program's 30th anniversary celebration calls us to 'Celebrate, Honor, Act'
• Franciscan spirituality inspires new affiliate relationships
• Ecospirituality - FSPA farmland: a reflection of God's goodness, abundance
• Ethical shopping: be mindful about every purchase
• New prayer partners welcomed during 30th commissioning service
• News Briefs: New tabernacle; RSVP award; Spokane memorial

August 2011

• Sister Amy continues the journey in her vocation to religious life
• Two FSPA find Franciscan family in Hawaii, Guam and China
• New affiliate commitments celebrated during 2011 affiliation live-in
• Ecospirituality: Sacred legacy, sacred land: modeling the past in the future
• Bracelets serve as a reminder to hold a soldier in prayer
• Sister Lucille celebrates 100 years, tree planted at St. Rose
• FSPA celebrate jubilees in 2011

May 2011

• Justice and peace coordinator finds hope in Afghanistan
• Interfaith coalition works to provide shelter for La Crosse's homeless population
• Franciscan Common Venture co-founders facilitate gathering in Cameroon
• Sister's dream is fulfilled through mission trip to orphanage in Cameroon
• FSPA brings nursing experience and friends' support to Cameroon
• Sisters' visit to Zimbabwe humbles, induces strong sense of pride
• Ecospirituality: FSPA puts Franciscan heritage in action today
• Franciscan Living Challenge: Precycle-Consider fair trade product purchases and 'empower producers'
• Affiliation welcomes new members who commit to live by Franciscan values
• From Arizona to Nevada: two sisters share their presence in the West
• Five new eucharistic prayer partners commissioned

 

February 2011

• FSPA commemorate loss and legacy in El Salvador
• Mission councilors find peace of mind and spirit out West
• Jail ministry serves as a 'reminder of our equality' for sisters and affiliates
• Conference offers insight into ministerial life in the 21st century
• Earth and us: awakening our consciousness and learning from the land
• FSPA publishes A Chapter of Franciscan History, 1949-1989
• Exhibitions allow visitors to discover an untold story in American history
• Sister's intarsia added to St. Rose Convent dining room

 

December 2010

• Spokane’s Mary of the Angels: reflections on a ‘place of peace’
• Natural funeral and burial: Sister Helen Gohres ‘simply’ returns to the earth
• 21st annual FSPA Sponsorship Conference: ‘Sharing the goodness of God’
• 2010 Fall Affiliation Gathering: awakening consciousness, renewing relationships - Annual affiliation retreat invites participants to ‘reclaim their intuition’
• FSPA in formation reflect on their ministry as an experience of mission
• FSPA continue using the land to further the mission
• Franciscan Living Challenge: Continue eliminating toxic products
• Together FSPA celebrate citizenship, honor nursing program and accept gift
• New prayer partners commissioned

 

August 2010

• New leaders assume office thankful and ready to serve
• Sister Kristin receives the FSPA medal during first vows ceremony
• Affiliation Office hosts largest group on record for annual Live-in
• Individual insight and shared Franciscan values work for WomanWell
• Ceremony hosted to celebrate, welcome nine new affiliates to FSPA
• Myth busting: do we see God in all things?
• Conservation practices reduce spirituality center's carbon footprint
• 2010 Jubilarians reflect on life as an FSPA

 

May 2010

• Experiencing the call to joint ministry, responding with integrative therapy
• Fifteen families benefit from FSPA Share a Sheep fundraising effort
• For FSPA in the northwoods, knowledge leads to interest leads to compassion
• Indoor air pollution: Are there hazardous chemicals inside your home?
• 20th annual memorial service at Sister Thea's gravesite held March 30
• FSPA welcome six new prayer partners
• New covenant affiliates commissioned

 

February 2010

• Sharing a 'Shooting Star:' Sister Charlene writes Thea's Song
• Ecospirituality Committee works to bring land conservation projects to fruition
• Muslim culture in Bangladesh 'takes hold' of my heart
• Earth Day: A celebration of relationships
• FSPA supports immigration ad campaign
• Affiliation Office challenges affiliates and siters to clean green in 2010
• FSPA celebrate new covenant affiliate

 

December 2009

• Sister Constance Walton professes final vows: 'The ring of roses'
• Twin Cities area sister and affiliate picnic promises to become an annual event
• Twentieth sponsorship conference: Celebrating our mission, Franciscan leadership
• Sister Nirmala Dias welcomed, tranfers religious vows to FSPA
• Marywood Merrymakers spend summer vacation 'serving as Franciscans'
• Affiliate's Earth-friendly home is expected to lower heating and cooling costs
• Carbon footprints: How are we doing?
• Growing local-farm movement should include your fruit, vegetables and meat
• After four decades of service in Superior, Sister Eileen Lang begins life's next chapter
• Prayer partners commissioned on All Saints' Day

 

September 2009

• Sister Dawn Kutt professes final vows: 'God's hand helped guide me'
• Come to the table: Sister Julia Walsh celebrates first profession of vows
• Jubilarian celebrates 25 years of religious life, walk down the aisle
• Five covenant affiliates welcomed during 2009 Affiliate Live-In
• Cultural Audit work leads congregations to presentaiton of Tavolas, parables
• Peace conference message: Gifting a future of peace is ours to do
• FSPA welcomes Amy Taylor into the novitiate
• 2009 Affiliation Retreat: a pilgrimage of peace
• 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe exhibit opens at peace conference

 

July 2009

• General assembly sets hearts aflame for mission
• Villa celebrates 100-year milestones with tree plantings, birthday party
• Assembly participants called to go forth to the future as instruments of hope
• Ecospirituality: Examine your heart and choose to live out of abundance, gratitude, love
• Franciscan Living Challenge participant explains 'local flexitarian' concept
• FSPA completes naturalization process and secures U.S. citizenship
• Prayer services commemorate anniversary of Postville immigration raid
• Grand opening held for Women & Spirit, Catholic Sisters in America
• Jubilee 2009 Reflections

May 2009

• Affiliates use vacation to help schoolchildren on Arizona reservation
• FSPA's continued support 'crucial' to Cedar Rapids flood recovery
• A lifetime of pilgrimages leads affiliate to FSPA GATE program
• WomanWell: Working to integrate tradition with new visions
• FSPA donates property to St. Anthony Regional Hospital, Carroll, Iowa
• New prayer partners commissioned; twelve partners recognized for service
• Ecospiritulaity: FSPA continue to reduce carbon footprint
• Living Simply, Living Franciscan - ‘Sprouting’ is an excellent way to add more green to your diet

March 2009

• Congregations present 'Together, Creating a Culture of Peace'
• Sister Eileen McKenzie explores different cultural aspects of healing
• Newest affiliates' connections with FSPA heartened deeper commitment
• Spokane presence stays strong with mutual support, sense of community
• Ecospirituality: Tending the land: What would Francis tell us to do?
• Simply Living: Buy local, eat green
• The ministry of the organ played well - S. Loretta Penchi
• Vow renewal ceremony - S. Sarah Hennessey

 

INSIGHT NEWSLETTERS (replaced by Presence in 2009)

The following articles represent the latest congregational news.

August-December 2008

• Conference explores Clare as an exemplar of leadership
• Conference honors FSPA development director's 21 years of service
• Eucharistic prayer partner group welcomes eleven new participants
• Sister Jean Moore celebrates commitment to religious life
• Affiliate jubilee celebrations in 2008 honor three women
• Ecospirituality: Composting is simply common sense
• FSPA welcomes nine new covenant affiliates

June-July 2008

• GATE to Mexico participants reflect on their experiences
  
• Sister reflects on Founding Energies Pilgrimage to Bavaria
  
• Ecospirituality: FSPA congregational actions for peace and justice
  
• Affiliation celebrates prayer and covenant affiliates
  
• Jubilarians reflect upon their FSPA journey and ministries - pdf

March-May 2008

• Prayer partners celebrate a decade of adoration alongside FSPA
• New prayer partners commissioned
• FSPA helps at risk elementary students in Ellsworth make the grade
• Sisters offer helping hand at Viterbo University's Learning Center
• Teaching the Suzuki Method leads to success for child musicians
• Ecospirituality: Protecting and restoring our wetlands

January-February 2008

• Tertiary Sister of Saint Francis welcome FSPA, FSE creativity
• Christine Center celebrates Sister Johanna's 20 years of service
• Sister Mardelle Bellinghausen honored for work at Marian Cent