LCWR honored with 3012 Hecker Award at Paulist Center



Sisters and Associates with Florence Deacon, OFM [red jacket]

Quite a few sisters and associates from various congregations in the Boston area were on hand when this year’s Isaac Hecker Award honored Sr. Florence Deacon and all women religious of the LCWR congregations. The award is named after Isaac Hecker, the founder of the Paulist Fathers. It is given to Catholics from North America for their extraordinary work for justice and peace.

In her opening remarks Susan Rutkowski, Pastoral Minister, at The Paulist Center commented:

 

The Women Religious of the United States have taught us to pray, educated us on how to live and work in our ...ever-changing world, nursed our sick and old, cared for our abandoned, reached out to all the marginalized, and taught us how to respect the dignity of all. They have, in sum, shown us how Jesus might live in our world today. Like Isaac Hecker, they have worked tirelessly to foster the growth and development of American Catholicism, showing us what a socially just society could look like. Let us support them and follow their example in our own quests to model a more inclusive American society and church focused on justice for all.

Read more about this in National Catholic Reporter.

Here are a few more pictures of the event.