"How does one say 'thank you' for a life of loyalty and a million loves?" shares Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration Rita Heires, a 2022 jubilarian honored for 75 years of vowed religious life. Read more personal reflections of gratitude and love written by FSPA jubilarians — those who have served 75, 70 and 60 years of vowed religious life centered in Eucharist, committed to be loving presence through prayer, witness and service, at fspa.org.
FSPA In the News
Madalene Buelow, FSPA affiliate (pictured fourth from left) picked up a golden
shovel to help break ground for WAFER's new food pantry.
"It has an incredible history of feeding people in this neighborhood," said WAFER Board of Directors President Taylor Haley at the groundbreaking event for the organization's new food pantry location in La Crosse, Wisconsin, funded in part by an FSPA Seeding a Legacy grant initiated by Sisters Laurie Sullivan, Rita Jansen, Laura Nettles, Marian Massman, Bernadette Nehl, Mary Morrissey and Karen Neuser. Watch local coverage at news8000.com.
Messy Jesus Business Blog:
"A Letter to the 22nd Life Lost"
Muhamyn, Salladeen, Untitled, Kolby House Santuario.
Image submitted by Emily Cortina
Calling us to the acute suffering in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, Messy Jesus Business guest blogger Emily Cortina writes "God invites us to draw near, to not turn away, even from the hardest questions that rise up amidst the lives of fallen; questions of evil, compassion, redemption and culpability." Read more in "A Letter to the 22nd Life Lost."
