Catholic Sisters Week – March 8 – 14
Catholic Sisters Week
Celebrating Traditions, Changing the World
During the week of March 8-14
• Let’s light up hope in our communities!
• Let’s call attention to the new world that sisters call into being each and every day through service and ministry.
• Let’s raise up the world with experiences and legacy stories of women religious.
• Let’s recall memories that bring joy to alumni formed by sisters.
• Let’s highlight women who are choosing a vocation to religious life today!
Who makes Catholic Sisters Week happen?
There is a role for everyone in Catholic Sisters Week! We encourage women religious communities and congregations and those connected with them:
• associates, oblates, third orders, agrégées
• donors, benefactors, and other collaborators
• friends and family members
• parishioners, clients, students, and alumnae
• Nuns & Nones groups, spirituality seekers
• and anyone who longs to be light, build community and love fearlessly
During this week, contact a Missionary Sister to say hello and thank you!
Catholic Sisters Week
Catholic Sisters Week is celebrated every March 8 to 14 during Women’s History Month. Catholic Sisters Week is a celebration that commenced in March 2014 during women’s history month to honor religious catholic women and remember Catholic sisters that have passed away.
Catholic Sisters Week and International Women’s Day – What Can We Learn from Vowed Religious Women?
With the start of Catholic Sisters Week and International Women’s Day on March 8th, this is a time of commemorating extraordinary religious women and the many ways they have enriched our lives. Whether it’s Sisters, Saints or our fellow practicing Catholics, women of faith never fail to leave us feeling inspired.
At Cabrini Mission Foundation, we have learned life lessons from the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus that teach us to put others before ourselves and hold to our hearts the stories of their missionary work which inspire us to never give up. By doing so, we are nurturing our own souls in the process and aligning with the plan Jesus had for us.
Our foundress, St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, taught us the importance of dignity, development, and the empowerment of all people that starts within our own communities.
We hope, with our ministry, we embody the resilience of these incredible women, and make meaningful changes that emulate Mother Cabrini’s spirit and commitment to helping the most vulnerable.
Catholic Sisters Week
Fifty-two weeks a year women religious stand with the poor and immigrants, teach children, fight injustice, heal the sick, share spirituality, empower women, defend the planet, promote peace, create community, offer hope…
But for one week, March 8-14, we shine the spotlight on women religious and encourage a wide range of campaigns and events that invite all who follow Jesus to
• expand and support their gospel witness
• grow the service networks they have seeded
• share their spirituality, charisms, and community
• encourage young women to consider a vocation to religious life
• support their pastoral, teaching and prophetic works
• and focus on the new world they call into being.
During the week of March 8-14
• Let’s light up hope in our communities & highlight women choosing religious life today!
• Let’s call attention to the new world that sisters call into being each and every day through service and ministry.
• Let’s raise up the world with experiences and legacy stories of women religious.
• Let’s recall memories that bring joy to alumni formed by sisters.
Catholic Sisters Week
Catholic Sisters Week
March 8 – 14
Catholic Sisters Week (CSW) invites all to celebrate women religious from March 8-14. CSW is an annual celebration that began in 2014 to honor women religious with a series of events that instruct, enlighten, and bring greater focus on the lives of these incredible women. It’s a chance to recognize all that they do, with the hope that as more young women learn about women religious, more will choose to follow their example.
Visit the CSW website to learn about the organization, find an event near you and join in honoring women religious, or plan an event of your own and spread the word. You
can post your event for others to see here.
Additional Resources can be found through Global Sisters Report Resources, Communicators for Women Religious, and A Nun’s Life Ministry . Check out this great video from the Pope’s February prayer intention for inspiration.
NRVC has published 77 videos centered on the theme of Abundant Hope. All the videos can be accessed directly through the National Religious Vocation Conference YouTube Channel and shared publicly to amplify hope for religious life.
During this week, please contact a religious sister who has positively impacted your life
to say hello and offer a word of thanks and appreciation.