BVM Alice Caulfield
(Alissio) helps to serve
the weekly evening
meal at St. Patrick Parish in Dubuque.
Pope Francis:
‘Wake Up the World!’
by Jody Iler
live and minister, they are
planning or participating in
events celebrating religious
life, answering the pope’s call to
“Wake Up the World.”
Dubuque BVMs Celebrate
Year of Consecrated Life
Imagine a year where the international
focus is on religious life—a year that celebrates the history and accomplishments
of consecrated life and lauds the changes
that it has made in our society!
Now imagine the celebrations and
events held throughout that year by
religious worldwide: a year of gratitude
in remembering the past, igniting the
present with passion, and looking with
humble hope toward a future in which
that consecrated life will continue in new
and different ways, spiraling outward like
an intricately woven web.
Pope Francis has proclaimed 2015 as
the Year of Consecrated Life (YCL)—a
year to express gratitude to committed
religious and to encourage others to consider religious life—observed from Nov.
30, 2014–Feb. 2, 2016.
As one of the earliest congregations of
religious sisters in the Midwest, the Sisters
of Charity, BVM of Dubuque, Iowa, have
embraced the Year of Consecrated Life
with characteristic vigor. Wherever they
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