URSULINE SISTERS OF LOUISVILLE EVENTS FOR CSW:

LIVING OUT LAUDATO SI’ IN GLOBAL SOLIDARITY
Our Ursuline Charism In Action

SUNDAY, MARCH 12
3–4 pm ET
Ursuline Motherhouse Heritage Room
3115 Lexington Road, Louisville KY 40206
RSVP by March 7 to: [email protected]

This event will be livestreamed: https://vimeo.com/event/2877803
No rsvp necessary for the livestream

A presentation on the intersection of race, forced migration and climate change by Sister Carol Curtis, OSU, based on her recent experiences in El Salvador and Honduras as a delegate with SHARE and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR). They visited marginalized communities in El Salvador and Honduras, forming friendships and solidarity.
ALMI catechist credit available (1.0-hour Spirituality)

Catholic Sisters Week is celebrated annually March 8-14.
According to the catholicsistersweek.org website:
“Fifty-two weeks a year women religious stand with the poor and immigrants, teach children, fight injustice, heal the sick, share spirituality, empower women, defend the planet, promote peace, create community, offer hope…”
The official CSW theme for 2023 is “Celebrating Traditions, Changing the World.”

OTHER URSULINE SISTERS OF LOUISVILLE EVENTS FOR CSW:

OUR SISTERS SHARE

We are holding encounters between Sisters and the students, faculty and general community of Sacred Heart Schools, sponsored by the Ursulines, that will bring forward the areas of ministry important to the Sisters within the lens of tradition and change.
The topics covered will be:

  • Building Solidarity through Peruvian Missions
  • Traditions of Ursuline Discipleship
  • Ministry to the Migrant Community
    The Ursuline Sisters of Louisville wish to thank the Sacred Heart Schools’ Office of Catholic Identity and Ursuline Charism in planning CSW 2023 encounters that celebrate the Ursuline Charism within established structures at SHS.

    Louisville Ursulines in The Record for Catholic Sisters Week:

    The Ursuline Sisters of Louisville visited with students at Sacred Heart Schools as part of Catholic Sisters Week to share about their lives and ministries.

    https://therecordnewspaper.org/catholic-sisters-week/

WE TOOK THE PLEDGE

The Ursuline Sisters of Louisville are participating in The Refuse to Use challenge during Catholic Sisters Week – March 8-14. They will be joined by other congregations in their resolution to focus on the intersection of racism, migration, and climate change.

The damage to our environment and communities caused by plastic pollution, and single-use plastics, is immense: 380 million metric tons of plastic are produced yearly and approximately 91% of plastic is not recycled. Half of all global plastic production is for single-use items.

 

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF NATIVITY AND CATHOLIC SISTERS WEEK

To celebrate Catholic Sisters Week, March 8-14, and the 20th Anniversary of Nativity Academy at St. Boniface, a scholarship fund has been created by Nativity Academy in honor of Ursuline Sisters of Louisville Paula Kleine-Kracht, the first executive director.

The Sister Paula Kleine-Kracht scholarship will help sponsor a student to attend Nativity Academy and provide a scholarship for a Nativity Academy 8th grader to attend a Catholic high school.
If you would like to honor Sister Paula, Nativity Academy, and most importantly the education of underserved middle school students, please consider a donation. For more information, please visit: https://nativitylouisville.org/ or call 502-855-3300.