Our dear neighbors who have come to this country as immigrants need our support. The Congregation has a petition you can sign to support the measures in President Biden’s Build Back Better plan that would create a pathway to citizenship for some immigrant workers.

Sign the petition and contact your representative by

clicking here

An update from Associate Karen King who works with the Red Cross currently assisting those affected by the fires in California:

Dear Sisters and Associates,

I always mean to send photos from my deployments, but never have time. We did some supply distribution in Doyle, CA, then set up a shelter in a church in Quincy, CA. I pulled night duty, so I have some time!

I am so proud of the job my staff did on Sunday and today’s

adventures as well.

Thank you for your continued prayers for those affected by the

fires, and all who are responding to their needs. Some of the current evacuations our shelter team is responding to are: Twain, Tobin, Meadow Valley, Bucks Lake, Rich Bar... and many unnamed rural areas in the far northern Sierras.

Karen King, CSJA

The PLT praying with the Sisters

Sister Adele O'Sullivan blessing Miriam Clare Burkett

Sister Adele O'Sullivan blessing Sister Marcella Fabing

Sister Kathy Stein blessing Sister Bernard Talite

Sister Mary Ann Martin anointing Sisters

Twenty-four of our Sisters at Carondelet Center have moved to St. John of God located in Los Angeles. A blessing and missioning was held. Like the seven sisters who journeyed the Trek to Arizona in 1870, these twenty-four sisters moved to a new location and are sharing the love of God to all they meet.

L-r...Suzanne, Samantha, Elaina, Maria, Haley, Nikki, Grace, Nina, Krista

Recently, I have been bothered by the number of yogurt containers I’ve contributed to the landfill…all single use plastics or the larger plastic containers with no recycling options. So, I looked up this recipe online to end the horrible cycle of plastic use in this area of my life.

This yogurt recipe can be incubated in an oven with only the oven light on. It will yield a nice, thick yogurt, as compared to some homemade yogurts that are runny. Save about 1 cup of the yogurt you make to use as the starter (starter is yogurt with live active cultures) in your next batch.

Ingredients:

🔵 half gallon milk (2% low fat or whole milk... your choice)

🔵 ½ cup of yogurt with live active cultures

(Or for less yogurt: 1 quart milk)

🔵 ¼ cup of yogurt with live active cultures

Instructions Checklist:

Step 1… Turn oven on for 10 minutes at the lowest temperature, about 170 degrees F (77 degrees C). Then turn the oven off and keep door closed to gently heat the oven walls, about 50 minutes.

Step 2… Pour milk into a dutch oven over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, until an instant-read thermometer registers 185 degrees F (85 degrees C), about 15 minutes. Let cool to 115 degrees F (46 degrees C).

Step 3... Take 1 cup of cooled milk and mix yogurt with active cultures (this is the starter that you saved from the last time you made yogurt) together in a bowl until incorporated. Pour back into the Dutch oven of milk and stir to combine.

Step 4… Place the dutch oven with lid into the warm oven; then leave the oven off and turn the oven light on. Leave the dutch oven inside the closed oven for 6 hours (I do it overnight which works GREAT.) Remove dutch oven without shaking and place in the refrigerator until thickened, about 2 hours.

Step 5... Store in the refrigerator, it can be spooned into jars or your own containers and lasts for up to 10 days. I add fruit and granola for breakfast which sweetens the taste. Some of you many wish to add a bit of honey or other sweetener to your yogurt.

Many of us are good cooks and will come up with other ideas for eliminating plastic consumption. When you do, let us KNOW!

Sister Carol L Smith, CSJ

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