Sisters of St. Joseph Being & Acting as One in the Digital Age

Soundings Update for October 17 is now available online. In addition to an article about our October 2, Boston Founders' Day celebration, there is an article about the meeting of CSSJ Federation Communicators who met on the same day just before the NCNWR annual conference . The focus of the CSSJ Communicators Gathering was Being and Acting as One in the Digital Age.

In addition to reading this article, you're also encouraged to check out the frequent updates on the website of the U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph.

As part of the prayer to begin the CSSJ Communicators' gathering, we reflected on excerpts from a keynote presentation given by Nancy Sylverster, IHM, during the 2005 NCNWR annual conference. In Nancy's words :

Change is also a constant and so we need to be aware of our changing environments and remind ourselves of the final lesson of the Universe that we are flexible and adaptable. But to do that also needs a sense of ownership of the whole.

We live and work in an increasing complex environment of church and world. We need as many perspectives as possible to think through who we are and how we want to express ourselves.

As Brian Swimme so elegantly writes in The Universe Story, “…To be is to be related, for relationship is the essence of existence….Nothing is itself without everything else…The universe evolves into beings that are different from each other, and that organize themselves…the universe advances into community—into a differentiated web of relationship among sentient centers of creativity.” We need to learn the lessons from the Universe for we are the Universe unfolding.

 

Patty Johnson, CSJ, during the
CSSJ Communicators' gathering
 

Although it was not specifically planned, the way in which these words echoed the excellent presentation by Patty Johnson, CSJ, Executive Director of the CSSJ U.S. Federation, confirmed how much in converging and unfolding TOGETHER in our universe. Read the full article on the Federation website to see what I mean.

CSSJ Communicators, Barb & Ann
during the gathering