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"God So Loved The World - Ministerial Religious Life in 2009" The Leadership Council invited me to speak about "vowed Religious Life" following an earlier and complementary presentation on the subject of Associates. In a sense, this is a bit like talking about "wet water" because the terms "vowed" and "Religious Life" are mutually implicating though not co-extensive. As all water is wet but not all wet things are water, so all Religious Life is vowed life but not all vowed life is Religious Life. Furthermore, there are many forms of vowed Religious Life such as monastic, mendicant or apostolic and much that applies to one does not apply to another. More>>
Theologian Mary Ellen Sheehan, IHM, examines these questions in her paper, Four Stories, now available in booklet form. Order online here.
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Building Sisterhood, A Feminist History of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary; Syracuse University Press; 1995 (ISBN 0815627416). Paths of Daring, Deeds of Hope; Letters by and about Mother Theresa Maxis Duchemin; edited by Margaret Gannon, IHM; printed in Scranton, PA, 1992.Web Sites IHM History, Monroe, Mich. - Our Founders, Timeline IHM History, Scranton, Penn. IHM History, Immaculata, Penn. OSP IHM Web site |
Nature Stations, a Meditative Walk. 
