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Update -- October 2005 -- Page 1 LCWR Update -- October 2005 -- page 1 October 2005 Jubilee Year Opens in Anaheim LCWR Members Explore the Role of Religious Life in Responding to the Urgent Needs of the Times ith more than 800 members present in More on the 2005 LCWR assembly, LCWR president Christine assembly can be found on Vladimiroff, OSB stated, “Our foremoth- pages 4 - 7, as well as on ers and founders have shown us the way the LCWR website at: through the past. Now it is our time, the only time we http://www.lcwr.org/lc- Whave -- the present. The future of religious life is in our wrannualassembly/assem- hands to shape for those who will follow us.” blies.htm The call to shape religious life in response to the ur- gent needs of the times was echoed by this assembly’s keynoters and conversation session leaders and woven through the ritual and liturgies. The speakers urged leaders to commemorate the LCWR jubilee year by Women Religious Respond to the reflecting more deeply on the power and potential of religious life to witness to the possibilities of trans- Needs of Hurricane Katrina Victims formation. As noted by keynoter Margaret Brennan, IHM, “For us [Jubilee] is a time, not just to rest, but to s word of the devastation caused by Hurricane be immersed in God and God’s world -- but perhaps Katrina spread, women religious throughout in a more contemplative way -- to shift our directions, the United States immediately began looking to scan the horizons for what lies ahead, to claim the Afor ways to help. One of the first actions was when the freedom that comes from serving God, to enter into a National Religious Retirement Office established itself year of joy and gratitude, to recognize our solidarity, as a clearing house to help religious from Louisiana however difficult, with all human beings with whom and Mississippi who were displaced by the hurricane. we share this earth we call home.” Within only a few days the NRRO staff was deluged with offers from congregations willing to share their housing. Inside this issue: Many congregations offered help to orders that had LCWR New Leader Workshop members who lost their housing and resources. Oth- 3 ers have been working with agencies and educational 7 Where Do LCWR Members Perceive centers that are helping displaced persons. They Are Being Called? The LCWR presidency offered their support to the lead- Commemorating the Anniversary of the ers of congregations in Region 5 who had been affected by the hurricane. In a letter to them, they said in part: 8 Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (continued on page 3) LCWR Update -- October 2005 -- page 2 From the LCWR Presidency Probing the Questions of Our Times by Christine Vladimiroff, OSB LCWR Past President hese are apocalyptic times. First, ers and blossoms in the spring. I find the tsunami with more than breathlessly beautiful the changing 300,000 dead or missing visited our colors of leaves in the fall. In this mo- Tglobe. Fishing villages disappeared and ment, I feel betrayed by the same nature a people’s way of life changed forever. that brings me a sense of the divine in Our hearts were moved and the day my contemplative walks along Lake after Christmas last year was not about Erie. The natural world is a source of gifts but about reaching out beyond our blessedness, a place of beauty and a borders to victims. Why such destruc- reason for joy. Nature communicates to tion visited a poor people was the ques- us a feeling of being in the presence of tion that haunted our minds as we set the divine. I do not want to fall into a out to donate to the relief effort. Today, simplistic fundamentalism as I pose the the people who survived are frightened questions. Who unleashed its fury? Was by the sounds of crashing waves, and it an act of God? Are we complicit in terrified to return to their village and old way of life creating the conditions of nature unbounded? by the sea. Will they ever be able to put their lives back together again? I can only probe the question. I have no answers. What is our relationship to nature? I remember Thomas Now, closer to home, Hurricane Katrina devastated all Berry, in an interview, once said: “A use-relationship life in its path and human failures compounded the with the natural world is the deepest perversity of suffering of a people who looked for a saving hand and which humans are capable. The worst thing one hu- found none. The social rift in our country was made man being can say to another is, ‘You used me.’” Are we guilty of viewing nature as an object to be used? Have we treated our natural world in ways that have What in our lives stands outside of God’s word broken the rhythm and right relationship we ought to that undermines the integrity of experience? Has the accumulation of abuse by those of us who walk the earth broken the covenant between us creation itself? and the planet we were given as our home? What in our apparent as those who were poor had few or no op- Have we treated our natural world tions. They were left behind. Those who had means and resources escaped. A super power was shown to the n ways that have broken the rhythm and world to be incapable of helping its own people. Ar- right relationship we ought to experience? rogance was replaced with humiliation. Our feelings of helplessness increased as we saw the failure of technol- lives stands outside of God’s word that undermines the ogy with the breeching of the levees in New Orleans. integrity of creation itself? What is the stirring in our Nature could not be contained nor its force tamed. The conscience as we witness the events and hear the plight “party city” hears now only the sounds of lamentation of the poor? in its streets. Tears of grief and vacant stares replace the smiles and laughter of just weeks ago. As women religious, our spirituality represents the way we reflect the holiness of God to the world. It is our way This is the same nature that inspires us with its beauty of being holy in the contemporary struggle with the of sunrises and sunsets each day. It brings us flow- questions of meaning. Those questions abound today. LCWR Update -- October 2005 -- page 3 LCWR National Board Meeting News LCWR New Leader Workshop mong the topics discussed by the LCWR na- tional board at its August post-assembly meet- Information and registration forms ing were the following. will be sent electronically to all A LCWR members about the upcoming Exhibit on Women Religious The LCWR board approved the plans of the LCWR LCWR New Leader Workshop History Committee to move forward in researching and planning for a possible exhibit on women religious at This workshop has been revised and will be presented the Smithsonian. The suggestion of an exhibit had been in a new format which will include raised in several LCWR regions as part of the commem- facilitation, ritual and oration of the LCWR jubilee. ample opportunities for interaction among speakers and participants. The next step in the planning process will be a charrette, a three-day process where an interdisiplinary profes- The workshop is designed for religious sional design team creates a complete and buildable who have been in elected congregational leadership plan that reflects the input of all stakeholders. The char- rette will be held from October 27-29 in Baltimore and for less than two years. will involve more than 20 people, including representa- tives from the Smithsonian. March 30 - April 2, 2006 Mundelein, Illinois Election of At-Large Executive Committee Members The LCWR board elected as at-large members of the LCWR Executive Committee Margaret Mayce, OP and Maureen Shaughnessy, SC. Women Religious Respond to the Needs of Hurricane Katrina Victims Fall Regional Meetings The following are among the topics recommended for (continued from page 1) discussion at the LCWR fall regional meetings: • Assembly 2005 Report “As the members of the LCWR presidency, we extend • LCWR Jubilee our deepest sympathy for all that you, your sisters and • National Dues Structure all those you know, love and serve have experienced • Jubilee History Project with the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. • CARA Study Follow-Up “As we hear the reports about the extreme suffering being endured by so many in the south, we think often of all the women religious there among them. We thank you for your courageous responses to the devastation of human life that you must be witnessing. We can only imagine the tremendous inner strength that is needed to bear such pain and suffering. We pray frequently that you may have all of the graces that you need to respond to what life may call you to do and be in the days and months ahead. “Please be assured of our ongoing care, concern and LCWR officers for 2005-06 at the August post-assembly support for you during this time. We know that many board meeting: Mary Dacey, SSJ, president-elect; Maryann women religious throughout the country stand ready Summa, OP, treasurer; Jeanne Bessette, OSF, secretary; to share their resources, homes, time, service and love Christine Vladimiroff, OSB, past president; and Bea Eichten, with you.” OSF, president LCWR Update -- October 2005 -- page 4 2005 LCWR National Assembly Christine Vladimiroff, OSB in her presiden- tial address stated: “Jubilee is a radical turning of our life over to God.
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