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Shared Summer Ministry Program
July 9 - 13, 2007
Oblate Sisters of Providence and IHM Sisters
St Agnes Hispanic Center
233 W. Gay Street
West Chester, PA 19380
Director of the Summer Program: Sister Rosemary DePaul Residence: Villa Maria House of Studies (Immaculata, PA)
(first week of program for intercongregational participants)
Dates: Week of July 9 to July 13 (for intercongregational participants)
Weeks of July 9 to July 26 for all interested Immaculata participants
Arrival: for Villa Maria House of Studies guests – Sunday, July 8
Departure: Saturday (July 14) or Sunday (July 15) for guest participants from Baltimore, Scranton, Monroe
Immaculata sisters doing the additional two weeks will remain if convenient for them
Schedule: Classes will be held each morning and evening from Monday to Thursday. Friday will be a special schedule. No evening classes will be held on Friday. Volunteers can work either morning or evening. More evening classes will be needed because most of the adult students work during the day. Sr. Mimi (Rosemary DePaul) would love to have some of the participants work with the children.
Transportation: Transportation to and from St. Agnes Center for classes will be provided by VMHS (Immaculata).
Sharing vision: Sr. Kathy Sabatino (I) hopes to focus our week through shared prayer and through responses to the experience.
Evaluating this initial intercongregational ministry program, although brief, will help us to plan for future endeavors.
The OSP IHM Committee for Healing Racism is most grateful to Sr. Rosemary DePaul for welcoming this first such attempt and for helping with the many, many details of planning. We also thank VMHS for their gracious hospitality.
If interested, contact Sister Jane Snyder at 570-344-3774 or snyderihm@yahoo.com
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Oblate/IHM
Gathering DVD
To watch previews, click on the links below. To purchase
the DVD for $8.00 (shipping
included), go to www.oblateihm.com
or print out an order
form and send with payment. Share the
Oblate and IHM stories. This DVD is a wonderful teaching tool
that may be shared with associates, co-workers, students and
family members.
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Highlights
of Our Gathering, July 29-31, 2005
The Oblate Sisters of Providence of Baltimore, Maryland
and the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
of Monroe, Michigan, Immaculata and Scranton, Pennsylvania,
have come together to celebrate their common consecration,
to remember their common roots, and to reaffirm the unanimity
of the shared threads of their charism expressed in the
uniqueness and diversity of the four Congregations.
From their founding in 1829 (Oblate Sisters of Providence)
and in 1845 (Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of
Mary), the sisters have committed themselves to the transformation
of society in the spirit of St. Alphonsus as transmitted
by their founders, Father Jacques Joubert, SS, Father Louis
Florent Gillet, CssR, Elizabeth Lange, OSP, Theresa Maxis
Duchemin, IHM, and all the Oblate and IHM women who have
followed them down the years.
The sisters live a shared, simple life, grounded in contemplative
reflection and apostolic activity. Enlivened by the inspiration
of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, and in fidelity to their
Redemptorist heritage, the sisters stand with Mary of the
Magnificat in solidarity with the poor and in compassionate
action on behalf of justice and peace. They teach, they
minister, and they serve wherever the Church and People
of God call for their generous response. |
| The Oblate/IHM Logo shows a heart,
central to the image, joining the congregations represented
by four stars and the abbreviations of the congregation names.
The “many stories” woven around “one heart”
result in a “deep encounter to which we have been called
resulting from the providential moment in Monroe in 1995”
(Annette Beecham, OSP) that brought the congregations together
after 150 years. |
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| This year, in July 2005, “we gather to celebrate a
moment of renewed courage, of risk acknowledged and accepted,
of hope unchecked, of faith unfolding in our lives, and in
witness to the healing that can take place in both our corporate
and personal lives” (Virginia Pfau, IHM). “Each
congregation operates out of a huge reservoir of grace. The
opportunity to drink from someone else’s font at the
same time that they drink from ours is so enriching and life-giving”
(Jane Snyder, IHM). The spirit of this gathering sends a “message
of creative hope, born in the crucible of shared foundational
sufferings, and kept alive in the desire and the willingness
to identify the tensions, to break down the barriers and stereotypes,
to restore right relationships, and to maintain the dialogue
of charity. Although our congregations represent a wide spectrum
of diversity, they also represent and teach the possibility
of peace and reconciliation - not only for and among themselves
- but also for the purpose of making the redeeming love of
Jesus Christ more visible in the Church and in the world”
(Patricia Dailey, IHM). |
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