Get W.I.T.H. It!

Learn how our partnership with Beyond Borders Haiti is helping to keep children safe from restavèk slavery and a fun way to support the cause!

A goal of the Human Trafficking Committee is to provide Sisters, Associates, and friends of the School Sisters of Notre Dame with opportunities for prayer and education about this form of modern day slavery. This week we share "An Educational Evening" by Sister Joan Pikiell and "Reflections on Integral Ecology" by Sister Kay O’Connell.

School Sisters of Notre Dame have been involved with immigrants since our arrival in North America when we set out to educate German immigrant children in several East Coast cities. Learn more about our commitments to action here!

On April 27th, Sisters, Associates, and Staff attended a Symposium on Climate Change. Please take a moment and reflect on these ‘take-aways’ from the Sisters, Associates, and Staff who participated.

Please take time to read the enclosed article “Poems from Children on the Front Lines of Climate Change,” by Veronica Gaylie. Also, Sister Kay O’Connell has prepared a reflection on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Teilhard de Chardin.

Earth Day is April 22. It is the day after Easter this year and thus serves as a poignant reminder that our care for the earth is an integral part of our faith. We have assembled a number of thoughtful reflections recognizing that the earth serves as the backdrop for all human activity, including all four AMSSND commitments. 

We have pared down Get WITH It to focus on a few important actions and issues each week. Take a look this week!

At the heart of our lackluster response to our planet Earth’s current crisis of sustainability is what Pope Francis describes in "Laudato Si" as a modern anthropocentrism.

World Water Day is happening March 22! The Water Committee invites you to reflect upon and appreciate our relationship to water and the earth with a reflection calendar for the month between World Water Day and Earth Day (4/22).

A beautiful poetic reflection on the interconnectedness of all things offers a source of inspiration for the “ecological conversion” to the integral ecology paradigm to which Pope Francis exhorts us in Laudato Si’. This Lenten Season,focus on the four commitments of our province (Sustainability and Access to Water, Justice for Immigrants, Ending Human Trafficking, and the Development of Haiti), as we fast and pray for such an ecological conversion.