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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:...
Margaret Gonsalves, SFCC
Jul 21, 20215 min read
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'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...
Margaret Gonsalves, SFCC
May 12, 20213 min read
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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...
Margaret Gonsalves, SFCC
Apr 11, 20215 min read
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Evolutionary Consecrated Life
While reading the recent Grace on the Margins column by Jamie Manson about the Benincasa Community in National Catholic Reporter, I...
Margaret Gonsalves, SFCC
Feb 11, 20205 min read
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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. ​...
Margaret Gonsalves, SFCC
Dec 3, 20194 min read
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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...
Margaret Gonsalves, SFCC
Oct 20, 20195 min read
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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...
Margaret Gonsalves, SFCC
Apr 23, 20194 min read
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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....
Margaret Gonsalves, SFCC
Feb 19, 20195 min read
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