Who and why:
In Solidarity with Sisters, we support each other in deepening our understanding and recognizing our responsibility as people of God, expressed in transformative non-violence and action. Meeting together regularly and with intention helps us hold ourselves accountable for the way of being we continue to discover with Catholic sisters and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the national association for 80% of US sisters. We began in April 2012.
Our current focus:
We want to create space for the Holy Spirit to work. Especially now. So we gather online for Sunday morning prayer with readings, reflection, and sharing, and for weekday contemplative space on Tuesday evenings and Wednesday afternoons. We began in March 2020 with about 20 friends on Zoom. Now our Zoom community includes people across the US and Canada. Check out examples for more information. Let us know if you'd like more information.
We find inspiration in Catholic sisters' spirituality and vibrant commitment to Gospel values. A quick overview of our history is here. Central has been active, contemplative Gospel life. Our chapter in LCWR's book However Long the Night: Making Meaning in a Time of Crisis gives more info.
What forms us:
We encourage you to explore the content and thousands of links on this site for inspiration, information, and opportunities for action to be people of God, nurtured and challenged by the ways of women religious. Try practical resources for community, contemplation, and social justice -- a powerful combination. Discover connections to sustain you. If we're grounded together in the Spirit, we can transform ourselves and our world. As one of us said:
In Solidarity with Sisters, we support each other in deepening our understanding and recognizing our responsibility as people of God, expressed in transformative non-violence and action. Meeting together regularly and with intention helps us hold ourselves accountable for the way of being we continue to discover with Catholic sisters and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), the national association for 80% of US sisters. We began in April 2012.
Our current focus:
We want to create space for the Holy Spirit to work. Especially now. So we gather online for Sunday morning prayer with readings, reflection, and sharing, and for weekday contemplative space on Tuesday evenings and Wednesday afternoons. We began in March 2020 with about 20 friends on Zoom. Now our Zoom community includes people across the US and Canada. Check out examples for more information. Let us know if you'd like more information.
We find inspiration in Catholic sisters' spirituality and vibrant commitment to Gospel values. A quick overview of our history is here. Central has been active, contemplative Gospel life. Our chapter in LCWR's book However Long the Night: Making Meaning in a Time of Crisis gives more info.
What forms us:
We encourage you to explore the content and thousands of links on this site for inspiration, information, and opportunities for action to be people of God, nurtured and challenged by the ways of women religious. Try practical resources for community, contemplation, and social justice -- a powerful combination. Discover connections to sustain you. If we're grounded together in the Spirit, we can transform ourselves and our world. As one of us said:
"This process is about personal transformation in order to bring about social transformation."
Photo by Sean Thompson
Paths to good places:
- Learn who sisters really are – not media stereotypes but actual women with passionate commitments to prayer, community, nonviolence, and Gospel justice; women who carry God’s life into the life of the world. LCWR’s leadership, books, and addresses inspire us and impel us.
- Make personal connections with sisters – online and in person.
- Pray as sisters do – by opening ourselves to God and by finding God in all things.
- Choose community as our foundation – beyond the norms of our polarized society; supported by new ways of leadership; rooted in nonviolence; and welcoming God’s active presence.
- Take action to increase peace and justice in the world – through dialogue instead of debate; through solidarity with people on the margins in areas like human trafficking and immigration and racial justice; through oneness with creation; and through the sisters' proven ways of spiritual leadership.
- Hardest and most gradual, at least for us: live with deep, pervasive nonviolence. It took us a long time to recognize that LCWR intends to be nonviolent as Jesus was nonviolent. They don’t talk about it, they do it. Their choice of nonviolence pervades reactions, actions, relationships, imagination, language, everything.