A Quick Note
FSPA is excited to launch this new e-newsletter! Everything you know and love about Show me a sign will still be included in this newsletter — links to your favorite stories, blogs and podcasts about religious life — but content will be presented a new format that we hope is engaging and exciting to read. As a subscriber to Join Us (formerly Show me a sign), you are automatically signed up to continue to receive this new newsletter.

Thank you for your readership!

Sister Julia Walsh & Sister Jacinta Jackson
Messy Jesus Business


Seeing Jesus in the poor and the bread

The first episode in season one of the Messy Jesus Business podcast offers a contemplative moment related to Adoration. And, guest Sister Sarah Hennessy talks about vocation, the mystery of the Eucharist and the charism of her community–Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration.

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Messy Jesus Business, a blog and podcast hosted by Sister Julia Walsh, invites you into the mess. Read more. Listen now. Become a Rabble Rouser.
Forming Consciences
“As we prepare ourselves to vote in November, we’re called to form our consciences and participate for the common good. Just as we as FSPA are engaged in studying and understanding the issues, economic justice, migration, racism and care for our common home, to name a few, we encourage all Catholics, everyone, to do the same,” said Eileen McKenzie, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration president. “Examine the issues. Examine your values. Examine your hearts,” continues Sister Eileen. “We are all called to faithful citizenship. It requires discernment, prayer and civil discourse. We invite everyone to move forward in spirit and hope--in goodness— and resist despair and cynicism.”
Upcoming Events for Discerning Women
October 2, 2020
8 a.m. - 8 p.m. Central
Discerning women are invited to join FSPA for virtual adoration live from the Adoration Chapel located inside St. Rose Convent, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Request Zoom link from [email protected]

October 4, 2020
St. Francis Day
10 a.m. Central
Discerning women are invited to join FSPA for Mass, streamed virtually from Mary of the Angels Chapel located inside St. Rose Convent, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Request Zoom link from [email protected]

October 6, 2020
The Story of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
Noon Central
Sister Mary Ann Gschwind, archivist for FSPA, will share the congregation from their humble beginning through their years of establishing enduring institutions in health care, education, and spirituality to their present-day ministries that reach from local neighborhoods to communities around the world. Watch via Facebook Live

October 24, 2020
Virtual Come & See
Email [email protected] for more information and to register
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