Re-imagining Our Future: Pictures from the 2017 Assembly

Jun 16, 2017

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The 2017 Provincial Assembly was held at the Airport Hilton in Kansas City, Missouri on June 3rd-6th. Sr. Mary Waskowiak was the featured presenter. Scroll down to see all three slide shows!
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Companions

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Assembly Sessions
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Masses & Prayer Services
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2017-2018 Volunteers Update

Jun 12, 2017

Former Precious Blood Volunteer, Ryan Cornelissen, tutoring a student at Cristo Rey Kansas City High School


by Tim Deveney, Director of Precious Blood Volunteers
I am excited to announce that we will have six and possibly seven new volunteers this coming volunteer cycle. They are a well-accomplished group with varied backgrounds, work experience, interests, and educational training. They will bring energy, youth, experience, and passion to the Precious Blood community and to the people they serve.
This group of volunteers will be living and working in Kansas City and Chicago serving and walking with people who have been marginalized in our society.  In Kansas City we will have volunteers serving at KC CARE Clinic, Cristo Rey Kansas City High School, and St. James Place (part of the Bishop Sullivan Center). They will live in community at Gaspar Mission House.

Jade Bowman, a former Precious Blood Volunteer, taking the vitals of a patient at KC CARE Clinic


The Chicago volunteers will serve at Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation (PBMR). They will be our first volunteers serving at PBMR since Bonnie Kane served there in 2011. The female volunteers will be living with the Dayton Precious Blood sisters and the male volunteer will live at the Formation House in Hyde Park.
One group of volunteers will begin their Orientation in the first week of August and the second group will participate in Orientation in September. Early in the summer we will be introducing each one of them to the Precious Blood community.
You can learn more about Precious Blood Volunteers at www.preciousbloodvolunteers.org

THE BUDGET REVISITED

Jun 5, 2017

from Gabino Zavala, Justice and Peace Director
In March I wrote about my concerns in regard to President Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018 (Read). Now the administration has released this proposed budget that would gravely impact vulnerable people. It includes plans to slash social safety nets, cut funds for refugee resettlement programs while increasing funding for detention, deportations and militarization of the border including building a border wall. It would seriously impact the arts, the care for our common home and the education of the poor among other things.
According to Catholic Social Teaching, the dignity of the human person, the pursuit of the common good, the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity all provide the context and a moral framework to make wise and moral budgetary decisions. If we listen to the Word of God, the measure of a community is how it treats “the least of these” (Matt. 25: 31-46).
How are we treating “the least of these” with this proposed budget that recommends cuts of $191 billion over ten years from SNAP —formerly known as food stamps — that would have a devastating impact on poor and hungry people like children and the elderly? How are we caring for the dignity of the human person when the budget is suggesting Medicaid cuts of 1.3 trillion over the next 10 years leaving children, the elderly and our poorest families without access to healthcare?
Nancy Clisbee, one of our St. Joseph Companions, wrote to me of her concerns about the effects of this proposed budget in our own communities sharing that “the cuts…will directly impact the teaching of English to adult immigrants and refugees at Webster in St. Joseph, and all Missouri Adult Education Literacy sites (think Don Bosco), as well as the teaching of Citizenship, preparation of older teens and adults to pass the HiSet test (formerly GED), and basic education classes for older teens and adults who experience difficulties in learning.” Nancy makes a statement that we should all reflect on as Missionaries of the Precious Blood: “Clearly these are our brothers and sisters on the margin.”
As a Precious Blood Community we are called to advocate for and serve our sisters and brothers on the margin. Please raise your voices on behalf of “the least of these” that have no voice, our sisters and brothers on the margins. Call the White House to express you concerns about this proposed budget. Contact your Senators and your House Representatives and let them know that this budget does not serve our people, especially the most vulnerable.