The first annual "National Catholic Sisters Week" begins this Saturday! If you're wondering how this all began, follow this link to St. Catherine's University for the article. However, we can tell you it all began with a graduate research paper, a size 9 shoe box filled with hundreds of cards indexing sisters who had made a contribution to academia, healthcare, and many other professions...
Considerations for Campus Ministers:
o Host a coffee hour
meet-and-greet for Catholic sisters and students.
o Offer a prayer service for
vocations.
o Have a trivia contest or a
scavenger hunt related to Catholic sisters.
o Hold a film screening –
either a documentary or a popular film about sisters
(or with sisters in it) and hold a discussion afterwards.
(or with sisters in it) and hold a discussion afterwards.
o Interview a sister on your
campus’ radio show, television station or student newspaper.
o Invite a Catholic sister to
speak about her vocation at the end of Mass.
o Hand over your Twitter
account to a sister for a day – or enlist 7 sisters, one each day.
o Launch a photo contest
inviting students to capture images of women religious. Invite members of your
community to vote on their favorite online.
o Coordinate a tour or
volunteer activity at a sister’s ministry.
o Publish a notice about
National Catholic Sisters Week in your newsletter.
o Post a picture and a paragraph about a canonized sister on Facebook each day of the week.
o Publish an announcement of
the week in your bulletin or newsletter.
o Begin an intercession for
vocations to religious life and continuing praying for the lives and works of
current sisters.
o Create a display of sisters
to showcase during the month of March.
o Invite sisters to attend
various parish meetings and groups.
o Coordinate a volunteer
activity at a sister’s ministry.
o Ask sisters to share their
stories with members of your group
(parishioners, students, young adults, etc.).
(parishioners, students, young adults, etc.).
o Highlight sisters on your
website.
o Share first-person stories of
admirable sisters through social media.
o Choose a saint who was a
sister to be your patron for the month of March – study her and pray for her
intercession.
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