Margaret Gonsalves, SFCC

Times call for Shiphrah and Puah Activism

In my 2005 doctoral graduate paper on "Setting Free to Set Others Free - Empowering the Women Religious of India" I asked a question:...

'Everywhere, there is pain': Indian sisters on life in the COVID-19 hotspot

On March 20, I developed a cough, headache, sore throat, cold-like symptoms, conjunctivitis and fatigue. I feared going to the hospital...

Turning a gift of $20 into loaves-and-fishes on three wheels

At Christmas, one of my friends sent me $20 as a gift. On the envelope she wrote, "Strictly for personal use only." The exchange of $20...

Evolutionary Consecrated Life

While reading the recent Grace on the Margins column by Jamie Manson about the Benincasa Community in National Catholic Reporter, I...

God Ran Away

For my birthday I received a book called I Hear a Seed Growing by Edwina Gateley, a theologian and founder of Genesis House in Chicago. ...

The Power of Anointing Touch

Recently, some sisters whom I have known since their childhood invited me to attend their final profession. Only after they thanked him...

Nature my Chapel, Poems My Psalms

Recently, I visited a friend in Pune city, India. She invited me to go to the mall just for "trolling"; I reacted with all my dislike for...

Dancing in Rough Seas

When I visited the United States for the first time in July 2003, our sisters' community based in Washington, D.C., went on a retreat....

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