Stories, Prayers, and Reflections

I recently completed my last shift at Casa del Refugiado Center, and after three weeks of intense work and service in that 500-bed migrant shelter in El Paso, Texas, was able to enjoy some quiet respite time.

I have spent the past 2 ½ weeks in a blur of organized chaos that is a 500-bed migrant shelter in a vast warehouse in El Paso, Texas.

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

August days in the part of the world where I live are usually warm and sunny. They are the last days of summer, holding on to time, wanting just a little more rest, fun, space, and encounters with friends. 

Every weekday morning around 8:15, our sisters in skilled nursing in Wichita pray together. Later, they come together to pray the rosary.

Sister Jenny Sellaro’s professing of final vows late last month was a significant moment for the U.S Region of Adorers. Before Jenny, Sister Hang Pham was the last sister in the region to profess final vows — a decade ago in 2011.

After a long 18 months apart, I was overjoyed to at last return to the Adorers’ house in Wichita on June 17 to see my mother, Sister Joann Stuever, ASC. More of our family members arrived en masse over the next few days to join the sisters in celebrating 25 years since Mom’s first vows in the summer of 1996.

During Christmas of 2009, Sisters Pat Schlarman and I began visiting the Latino workers of the Henry Dairy Farm in southern Illinois.

By Sister Miriam Therese Rau, ASC On Ash Wednesday, the priest reminds us that “to dust we will return,” the phrase uttered as he makes… Read More »Green Burial

We lost our dear Sister Bernita Marie Leiker on May 19, and with that, our connection to the Brazil mission officially has ended.

Christine is a survivor of domestic abuse, and joined our program in August of 2020. Her take on her experience is below: