Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration

Catholic sisters engaged in furthering the work of the Gospel.

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✨ We’re hiring caregivers and CNAs to join our team!

As a caregiver or CNA, you will help support our sisters in living their most independent and fulfilling lives.

🕒 Full-time a.m. and p.m. positions
📅 Every other weekend and holiday

Apply today: https://t.co/236ElU4Ewz

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For the four out of five Indigenous women who become victims of violence in their lifetimes, we must use our voices to raise awareness about the lack of resources to find “these missing people quickly before something worse happens.” https://t.co/X0fTYcSv4F

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"... it's so remarkable to see that history, the artistry," said FSPA Director of Affiliation Michael Krueger during a tour of Mary of the Angels Chapel for the event that supported WAFER Food Pantry. https://t.co/WovL1jW9rM via @news8news

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“Christians," including Sister Thea Bowman, "have been navigating against injustice for a long time … we stand on their shoulders.”
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👉 Learn more and apply today: https://t.co/236ElU4Ewz

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✨ Join a mission-driven health care team where care is rooted in compassion, partnership and relationships.

We are seeking licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and registered nurses (RNs) who are passionate about caring for seniors and committed to holistic, whole-person care.

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Has anyone else noticed that their Grok newsfeed is fabricating stories, and then when prompted for the sources it admits that it is inventing this news? I have had to repeatedly tell it I only want actual news. It has actually suggested itself, that I put this into it's prompt: "Stop all creative/newsletter-style or speculative responses. From now on, only provide verified facts from current sources, with no inventions, hypotheticals, or formats that could mislead. If I ask for news, base it strictly on real recent events." It is a shame that we have to do this with Grok supposedly programmed to be truth-seeking. I have lost confidence.

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Last week, a group of FSPA partners in mission visited @PrairiewoodsFSC in Hiawatha, IA. During their visit, they were able to tour and learn more about the land, connect with local affiliates and spend time in quiet reflection and retreat.

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How can we walk with our neighbors who carry the burden of injustice beyond Good Friday? "Whatever way they can serve those who are suffering, not to forget them, to really stand with them," said FSC Associate Director Steve Spilde. https://t.co/cI1LOFqHro via @wxow

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"He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the scriptures said." - 1 Corinthians 15:4

He is risen. Happy Easter!

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Remembering Saintly Sister Thea Bowman on the Day of her Death - a Child Convert to #Catholicism then a Religious Sister!
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In loving memory of Sister Rita Feeney, 83, who died March 25, at St. Rose Convent. She was in the forty-ninth year of her religious profession.

Visit https://t.co/BshXqyZySg to read her full obituary.

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Earlier this month, the FSPA integral ecology team, with help from local Ho-Chunk youth, collected roughly 50 gallons of sap from maple trees on FSPA Land - St. Joseph Ridge.

The team is now boiling down the sap to make maple syrup! 🍯

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"To make a pilgrimage is to surrender to a place until it changes you," shares Sister Laura Nettles. "We knew that to honor her [Sister Thea Bowman] holiness meant finally confronting the painful truths she had always compelled us to see."
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Nearly 30 years ago, Brother Mickey McGrath, OSFS, an award-winning artist, found himself in a hospital room as his father battled colon cancer. One afternoon he came across a magazine and in it was the last interview with Servant of God Sister Thea Bowman — an African American woman who challenged the Church in the 20th century to confront its history of racial exclusion and to embrace Black Catholics through her work as a scholar, teacher, and speaker.

“I had never heard of the woman in my life, but I read this article right there on the spot and I thought, ‘Wow, she was something. How did I miss her all this time,’” McGrath told EWTN News.

“Music was at the very heart of her whole ministry,” he added. “And so, that struck me too as an artist, that she was using her artistic gifts to advance her spirit.”

One year later, McGrath welcomed a couple of brothers into his home who were preparing to take their final vows. Together they watched a video on Bowman that left him “energized and inspired.”

“The next morning, I got up and started painting and I didn’t stop for two weeks,” he said. “And in two weeks’ time I had nine paintings in a style very different from anything I had ever done before … It was like I was touching things that were already deep in me, you know, spiritually, but I didn’t have access to.”

Now McGrath has 47 paintings inspired by Bowman that have been packaged into boxes and sent to Rome for review to advance her cause for canonization.

The diocesan phase of Bowman’s cause for canonization was officially closed by the Diocese of Jackson, Mississippi, on Feb. 9. McGrath attended the Mass for this occasion, which was celebrated by Bishop Joseph Kopacz and held in the Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle in Jackson.

He called it a “truly wonderful event.”

Notable figures in attendance included three sisters from Bowman’s community; Meg Paulino, their community archivist; and Emanuele Spedicato, the postulator for her cause for canonization.

Reflecting on his paintings, McGrath said one stands out among the rest: a painting titled “This Little Light of Mine.” A painting from his first nine paintings inspired by Bowman — which he calls “the spirituals” — this painting depicts Bowman in a green habit holding a monstrance up in the air. He explained that it connects the classic song with “the light of Christ.”

McGrath shared that Bowman continues to provide Catholics with an important message today: “We’re all made in the image and likeness of God, and that’s got to be preeminent.”

Bowman, born Bertha Bowman in 1937 in Mississippi, was a trailblazing Catholic sister, educator, and evangelist. A member of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, she converted to Catholicism as a child and later became one of the most compelling advocates for Black Catholic spirituality in the United States.

With a doctorate in English literature and a gift for storytelling, Bowman traveled the country speaking, singing, and teaching — urging the Church to embrace the cultural gifts of African American Catholics.

In 1989, despite battling cancer, Bowman addressed the U.S. bishops with a now-famous speech that blended gospel song, humor, and a prophetic call for unity. Her witness left a lasting impression, and in 2018 her cause for canonization was formally opened by the Diocese of Jackson, giving her the title “servant of God.”

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Learn more and apply: https://t.co/236ElU4Ewz

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✨ Do you have a background in marketing, communications or religious studies — and a passion for supporting religious life and vocational discernment?

We are seeking a full-time vocation promotion assistant to join our discernment team at St. Rose Convent.

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How many of the bird species listed above have you observed in your own backyard?

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During our birding hikes earlier this month, participants spotted and recorded 113 birds on FSPA Land - St. Joseph Ridge in four hours!

These observations were then submitted online to contribute to the global data collected during the Great Backyard Bird Count, held Feb. 13-16.