Citizenship is a Gift
By Sr. Regina Siegfried, ASC On a cold, windy, and snowy January 19, 2024, I braved the elements to go to the downtown Eagleton Federal… Read More »Citizenship is a Gift
Teacher, writer, and historian Regina Siegfried, ASC, has taught students from grade school through graduate school. She taught the history of American women religious and the history and theology of the vows to intercommunity classes of novices. She wrote “Missionaries More and More,” the history of the community's mission in China, and authored a profile of Sr. Mary Catherine Girrens, ASC, as well as compiling the collected letters of Mother Clementine Zerr and Mother Paulina Schneeberger, the sisters who led the Adorers to the United States. She also edited “The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers.” She volunteers with outreach programs at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in St. Louis, Missouri, and tutors immigrants and refugees through the IHELP organization.
Teacher, writer, and historian Regina Siegfried, ASC, has taught students from grade school through graduate school. She taught the history of American women religious and the history and theology of the vows to intercommunity classes of novices. She wrote “Missionaries More and More,” the history of the community's mission in China, and authored a profile of Sr. Mary Catherine Girrens, ASC, as well as compiling the collected letters of Mother Clementine Zerr and Mother Paulina Schneeberger, the sisters who led the Adorers to the United States. She also edited “The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers.” She volunteers with outreach programs at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in St. Louis, Missouri, and tutors immigrants and refugees through the IHELP organization.
By Sr. Regina Siegfried, ASC On a cold, windy, and snowy January 19, 2024, I braved the elements to go to the downtown Eagleton Federal… Read More »Citizenship is a Gift
Fourth Week of Advent by Regina Siegfried, ASC The writer of the passage from 2 Samuel chosen for today’s first reading layers the meaning of… Read More »A Promise Kept
3rd Week of Advent By Regina Siegfried, ASC O God, who sees how your people faithfully await the feast of the Lord’s nativity, enable us,… Read More »Bring Glad Tidings to the Poor
Second Week of Advent by Sr. Regina Siegfried, ASC Although some may think that politics can usher in the new heavens and the new earth,… Read More »We Await New Heavens and a New Earth
First Week of Advent by Regina Siegfried, ASC To say that Advent is a season of waiting is to overstate the obvious. A closer examination… Read More »Why Are We Waiting, and Whom Do We Expect?
By Sr. Regina Siegfried, ASC We cherish our hearts and crosses, the signature symbol for the Congregation since the days of St. Maria De Mattias.… Read More »Ten Gold Hearts and Crosses Make Return Trip
On Tuesday, August 16, Brianna Southworth and I, the two archivists for the U.S. region, participated in a small CARA (Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate) focus group to share ideas about the state of archives for religious communities.
Many of us volunteer for…for food pantries, for immigrants and refugees, for justice organizations…for a myriad of good and worthy causes. There are people in need who require attention and care and respect. Consider also with whom you volunteer.
Although I’ve done my fair share of daydreaming about that great discovery, I also knew it would probably never happen, until that Thursday, November 16 when I was once again sorting through Sister Angelita Myerscough’s files. There it was, buried in a file of articles about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker. It’s a 1938 handwritten letter from Dorothy Day to Angelita, carefully protected by a plastic sleeve. Angelita knew what she had, even as a first-year temporarily professed Adorer.
By Sister Regina Siegfried, ASC Recently, after one of St. Louis’ too frequent summer thunder-lightning-wind storms, many streets in my neighborhood lost power from 5… Read More »Power and Light
By Sister Regina Siegfried, ASC When I read Creation and the Cross: The Mercy of God for a Planet in Peril by Elizabeth Johnson (Orbis… Read More »Evolutionary Christ Consciousness Resource
By Sister Regina Siegfried, ASC Lent and Holy Week were opportunities for me to ponder rituals and how Covid has changed the patterns of worship… Read More »The Assembly is a Ritual