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CLM Director Hosts Virtual Brown Bag Lunch

The year 2020 has been a year of many firsts. On Tuesday, November 17th, we held our first Cabrini CLM Chat via Zoom. Participants were invited to bring along their lunch and join in the conversation.

Lorraine Campanelli, the Director of the Cabrini Lay Missionaries (CLMs), spoke to a group of administrators, faculty and staff from Cabrini University, and other invited guests. The lunch time meeting opened with a beautiful prayer given by Sr. Grace Waters, MSC, followed by an introduction of Lorraine by Sr. Christine Marie Baltas, MSC

Lorraine presented information about the CLMs and how they are integral members of the Cabrini Family. She spoke about their initial formation period and the journey to making a commitment as a CLM. The participants offered wonderful comments and questions for Lorraine.

In addition to the formal presentation segment of the brown bag lunch meeting, the participants enjoyed seeing each other and having some informal, friendly conversation. There was such a beautiful spirit amongst everyone. Because of COVID, many people had not seen each other, especially in-person, in a long time. It was energizing to reconnect virtually.

Thank you to Sr. Grace, Sr. Christine Marie and Nancy Costello for arranging the meeting and inviting us to attend. Thank you, also, to Nancy Golen, the Director of the Cabrini Retreat Center in Chicago, for providing the Zoom technology. And, of course, a big thank you to all those who participated in the discussion. ~ submitted by Lorraine Campanelli, CLM Director

For those interested in learning more about the CLMs and their ministries, kindly contact:
Lorraine Campanelli: Email: cabrinilaymissionariesgp@gmail.com Phone: 914-907-0143

Residents and Staff Join in Feast Day Observances

Cabrini of Westchester celebrated the Feast Day of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini on Friday, November 13th and included both staff and residents in the celebration. A Mass, with live music, took place in the St. Cabrini Nursing Home Chapel that was beautifully decorated with vases of purple and white flowers. Sr. Romualda Molon, MSC also included a striking figurine of Mother Cabrini that was hand painted in 1939 and a gorgeous violet plant that she lovingly tends to in the home’s convent among the décor for the altar.

Later in the day, Sheri Gottlieb and her dedicated Therapeutic Recreation Staff distributed ice cream cones to the residents as a special treat in honor of the Feast.

The staff was included in the celebration with the distribution of $10.00 gift certificates to Magnolia’s Café for each employee.

What a special day to honor such a truly extraordinary wom an: our patroness, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini!

 

Voices for the Voiceless

We are very proud and grateful for the students of Cabrini University’s ECG 200, Voices for the Voiceless class. They helped organize a Human Trafficking Awareness Walk at Cabrini University on November 10 (Cabrini Day) and had “stations” where they shared info on Human Trafficking. The students in this class have become abolitionists and we know they are going to continue to be voices for the voiceless!
~ The Barbara and John Jordan Center for Children of Trauma and Domestic Violence Education, Cabrini Action and Advocacy Coalition, and ECG 200 Voice for Voiceless-Anti-Human Trafficking Class

Some topics discussed:
What is Human Trafficking?
Human trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery, in which people are controlled and exploited for profit. Perpetrators use force, fraud, and/or coercion to manipulate and establish control over individuals.
Types of Trafficking:
Various forms of trafficking exist around the world, including forced labor, sex trafficking, child labor, forced marriage, and child soldiers.
Statistics:
In 2019, 11,500 situations of human trafficking were reported to the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline. These situations involved 22,326 individual survivors; nearly 4,384 traffickers and 1,912 suspicious businesses. Human trafficking is very much under reported. Shocking as these numbers are, they are likely only a fraction of the actual problem.
Impact:
Trafficked persons often have limited access to basic necessities such as safety, food, sleep, hygiene, and medical care.

Get Involved:
Learn everything you can about human trafficking and share that info with your friends, neighbors, family members; donate to organization’s who help trafficked victims & volunteer for them:

Please place the National Human Trafficking Hotline # in your cell phone 1-888-3737-888 and report suspected cases.

Cabrini University – Cabrini Day

Cabrini University

Cabrini Day

November 10, 2020

COVID 19 and HUMAN DIGNITY

Cabrini Day 2020 is unique in context and delivery.  For the first time, students will deliver the keynote address, and all Cabrini Day presentations will be virtual

Being an Inclusive Church: Seeking a Way Forward


Fr. Maurice will speak on the history of Black people in the Catholic Church in the United States and address the pursuit of racial justice today in light of the church’s complicity in the history of slavery and racism in this country.

Fr. Maurice is a Roman Catholic priest in the Redemptorist Congregation. He is an award-winning author, having published many articles and book chapters about preaching, African American spirituality and culture, pastoral theology, evangelization and social justice. His most recent book is an award winning biography of his mentor, Sr. Thea Bowman. Bishop Joseph Kopacz of the Diocese of Jackson appointed Fr. Maurice to assist in the cause for canonization of Sr. Bowman. He is currently working on a book on preaching titled, Down Deep in My Soul: The Black Preaching Style in Catholic Worship, which emerges from a fellowship he has as an “Aquinas Delaplane Preaching Scholar” of Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. Fr. Maurice also serves as the Convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium.

To register:

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Reading the Signs of the Times with Catherine McAuley and Katherine Drexel

Boreta Singleton will speak on Reading the Signs of the Times with Two Women of Faith: Catherine McAuley and Katharine Drexel. In her talk, Boreta will speak on the lives and legacies of two religious leaders in the Roman Catholic Church who, rooted in their relationship with God, pursued social justice and mercy.

Boreta Singleton, a native of Philadelphia, taught in Catholic elementary schools and served as Director of the Office for Black Catholics. She now lives in the Bronx, and has ministered with and for the Jesuits for almost 20 years, first as a teacher and administrator at St. Aloysius School in Harlem, and currently at St. Peter’s Prep High School in Jersey City as Director of Faculty Formation. Boreta is active in her church community of St. Francis Xavier in Manhattan as a member of a group of Spiritual Directors and Supervisors, the Racial Justice Ministry and the Parish Choir. She became an Associate of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas in 2018 as a result of co-facilitating their Institute Anti-Racism Transformation Team. She also sings with The Ignatian Schola, and the chorus of Choral Chameleon.

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