ISSUE #53 • NOVEMBER 10, 2020

, and concern for each of us and will be forever grateful for their influence on my life. I always say that there are teachers you never forget, and for me, that teacher is Get to know Lupe, our newest Sr. Mona Castelazo. She introduced us to candidate C. S. Lewis, my favorite author to this day. I also attended Cathedral Girls’ High School We asked Lupe and graduated from the Academy of Our Moore, who joined Lady of Peace. us as a candidate in the LA Province on While working and living at home in San September 12, to Diego, I completed an AA degree in foreign help us all get to languages. In 2008, I received a BA in know her better Liberal Arts and in 2016 an MA in through a Q&A. umanities, from Mount Saint Mary’s University, with a specialization in Cultural Hometown: San Studies. My creative project for the Master’s Diego, California program, entitled “Journey into Joy: Experiencing Dante’s Divine Comedy,” Family: My father, James, was from held in the Doheny gazebo. It can be Alabama and served in the Navy during viewed online. WWII. After the war, he met my mother, Margarita, and they were married in 1949. Currently reading: All Shall be Well and My siblings and I grew up speaking Spanish Comunidad para el Mundo. at home. I am the fourth-born of seven children. Favorite movies: Brother Son, Sister Moon; A Christmas Story; Up Education: At Our Lady of Angels School in San Diego, my CSJ teachers made a Favorite : Everything from Mexican lasting impression on me. I felt their care, to classical music. Currently, this hymn is From our sisters in Japan my favorite: Himno a San José.

What draws you to religious life? Since childhood, I have had the feeling of being drawn to something more. Although I had long known the Sisters of St. Joseph, I was only aware of their teaching ministry, and consequently, I chose to pursue my religious vocation with a congregation dedicated to serving the poor. I entered the Congregation Sister Servants of the Poor in 1982 and ministered in Italy for eighteen years. While on a sabbatical in 2000, I was blessed with the opportunity to share community with Sisters Mona Castelazo This week our Japanese sisters gathered to and Kathleen Maier and have lived with celebrate the life of beloved Sister Anne them for many years. In 2007, I became a Michael Kuwabara, who died on November member of the Sisters for Christian 3. Candidate Noriko Kuroki (far left) sent Community. During the past 20 years, I this wonderful photo of the Japanese have experienced the inclusiveness and sisters at the funeral, saying, "It was love of so many CSJ sisters with whom I have come in contact. beautiful and heart-warming. We miss her, but we know she is happy with God now.” What are you most looking forward to after COVID? Getting to know more sisters and connecting with them. Upcoming congregational events

Tell us an interesting fact about There is still time to register for two yourself. I speak three languages, Spanish, English, and Italian. upcoming congregational events.

Favorite quote: “Listen, put it into your Theological Insights heart, youngest and dearest son, that the This session will feature CSJ Consociate thing that frightens you, the thing that Brianna Lloyd speaking on “In the afflicts you is nothing: do not let it disturb Beginning…”: Exploring a Story of Origin you; do not fear this sickness, nor any other and Its Sacred Land Ethic. sickness, nor any sharp or hurtful thing. Am Thursday, November 12 I not here, I, who am your Mother? Are you 8pm EST / 7pm CST / 6pm MST / not under my shadow and protection? Am I not the source of your joy? Are you not in 5pm PST / 3pm Hawai'i the hollow of my mantle, in the crossing of 10pm Chile / 8pm Peru / November my arms? Do you need anything more?” -- 13 at 10am Japan Our Lady of Guadalupe to St. Juan Diego Be sure to register in order to get the Zoom on Mount Tepeyac in 1531. link. "Service and ministry in this time of Calls for Justice pandemic and beyond" workshop This session, hosted by the associates of Los Angeles, will feature presenters Joan Dupnick and Ann Shubitz, who are both associates, long-time educators, and active volunteers. Thursday, November 19 7pm EST / 6pm CST / 5pm MST / 4pm PST / 2pm Hawai'i 7pm Peru / 9pm Chile / Fri Nov 20 9am Japan Last week, the Congregational Leadership Please register in advance to get the Zoom Team with the congregational JPIC link. Working Group released a statement reaffirming the congregation's commitment to oppose the death penalty. They also Measuring the impact of the committed to five actions as a congregation and encourage all sisters and ACOF to join Season of Creation in these actions as individuals.

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After a very meaningful Season of Creation,

we have been able to pull together some measures of how we are “Going Deeper, Prayer After the Elections Journeying Farther, and Responding Boldly by Joan Mitchell, CSJ and Creatively” to our commitment to implement Laudato Si'. We hope you are God who lives three in one love, inspired by this report and feel a deepened Creator of humankind, sense of engagement with our commitment Mother and Father of us all, as we move forward. Freely you have loved us into being and made us in your image, able to love, able to choose; Next up, planning for learning and acting freely we the people have weighed and together for Earth Day has already begun. chosen leaders for our democracy, read the report exercised our right and privilege. レポートを読む

We bless and thank you for sharing the gift of freedom. We bless and thank those willing to seek office and lead. We bless and thank those in every • Albany: A cure for consumerism: Be generation uplifted by nature, simplicity who have worked to include all in our • Los Angeles: Dia de los Muertos human rights. • St. Paul: I Voted: Now What? We commit with our new leaders to extend • St. Louis: Sisters of St. Joseph leave a hand mark on Nazareth across the aisles and alleys and streets of our everyday lives. We commit to learn what troubles Recent Publications: neighbors unlike us and leave no citizen without the dignity of • Carondelet East, November work, 2020 (Albany) no family without access to the table of • e-designs, November 2020 (Los plenty, Angeles) no voice unheard speaking for the common good. • Together, November 2020 (St. Paul) • Noticiero, Octubre 2020 (Peru)

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Rest in Peace

Last week in Los Angeles, Sisters Mary Julio Briones, Familia de San José McKay, Mary Sevilla, and Callista Roy October 8, 2020 sported their Mount St. Mary's University Votes shirts on Election Day in the United Liliana Díaz, Familia de San José October 9, 2020 States. Photo from MSMU's CSJ Institute

Facebook page. Jeanne Rene Mercier, CSJ September 5, 1929 - October 31, 2020

Anne Michael Kuwabara, CSJ February 2, 1933 - November 3, 2020

Happy Birthday! Associate Jane Turowski

November 10 November 19 Sister Judeth Breslin Consociate Maren Bjork Sister Mona Castelazo Associate Carol Cambell Sister Martha Vincent Larkin Associate Joseph L. Cassella Sister Dolores Cecile Schembri Associate Sharon E. Clubb Consociate John Gries November 11 Sister Geraldine Marie Kennah Sister Mary Carol Anth Sister Jane Schaper Sister Margaret Jude Corey Sister Linda Taylor Sister Mary Ellen Curtin Associate Marion Waite Consociate Tony Och Sister Carol Ann Peston November 20 Sister Helen Thomas Bronk November 12 Sister Timothy Anne Daly Associate Diann Heflin Sister Frances Michele Francese Consociate Susan Reaney Associate Kathleen Hawkins Sister Clara Vincent Slatinsky Sister Joan Mitchell Associate Alicia Murillo November 13 Consociate Kay S. Welsch Sister Constance Fitzgerald November 21 November 14 Associate Mary Ellen Albers Associate Alma Gutierrez Familia María Hernández Associate Michelle Piranio Associate Nicole A. Holtzer Sister Ann Smith Sister Anne Bernadette Stead Sister Claudia Wong November 22 November 15 Associate Vivian Burgess Sister Mary Jo Ritter Consociate Ginger Hedstrom Sister Patricia Supple Sister Rose Philippine Hoormann Associate Maureen Wessels Sister Mary Schneider Associate Michele Towne November 16 Associate Bonnie Lee Boswell November 23 Associate Carol Frevert Consociate Linda Andreozzi Sister Carol Quinlivan Sister Grace Bacon Associate Joan Bellinger November 17 Consociate Mary Helen Montgomery Associate Beth Barbieri Sister Ramona Rademacher Sister Elizabeth Mary Ganss Associate Mary Lou Schneider Sister Mary Fran Johnson Associate Janet Woulfe Associate Maggie Lambi Sister Barbara Joseph Wilson Download the full necrology and birthday lists Sister Serena Zilka on the Celebrations page of the congregational website. Please report any mistakes to November 18 [email protected]. Sister Carol Gerondale Associate Allen Grieve Consociate Ruby Hanson Sister Catherine Anne Kruegler Consociate Marla Tranel