by Sister Frances (Paulus) Gussenhoven, RSHM. Los Angeles, CA.  Sometimes we lovingly speak of an acquaintance who is a little odd, eccentric, or exceptional as “a character.“ Surprising quirks make that individual unique and different, not quite like the norm we have come to expect. Irregularities of behavior or of appearance seem to set that

By Sister Patricia Connor, RSHM MONTEBELLO, CA. Mary Milligan RSHM, past General Superior, died on April 2, 2011. The following eulogy was written by Patricia Connor, RSHM. With all our RSHM Sisters throughout the world who cannot be physically present, yet are united with Mary and with all of you who have come to celebrate

by Sister Marilyn Ficht, RSHM LOS ANGELES, CA. Up in the sky! It‟s a bird, it‟s a plane, it‟s Super-man! In the comic strip, and later the movie, Clark Kent is a mild mannered man whom few even notice. But when someone needs a hero, he sets aside his ordinariness and reappears as the red

by Sister Mary Leah Plante, RSHM LOS ANGELES, CA. Mystery, surprise, the only words that surface when I reflect on religion and science and an unfolding cosmos. I think when the practitioners of re- ligion and science are open, the cosmos teaches. Science seems to have learned that even though our time is organized in