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The Leadership Conference for Women Religious (LCWR) has prayer resources for an LCWR Election Novena of Prayer leading up to the US National Election. Beginning Monday, October 26 thru November 3, a 10-minute contemplative prayer will be posted for each day on the LCWR website. The daily prayer will be posted by 7:30 pm on the preceding day, with the first posting on Sunday evening, October 25. The daily posting will allow the prayer to be responsive to what is happening in our world, in our lives, and in our congregations. 

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Together, we will pray utilizing the USCCB's Novena for Faithful Citizenship, share prayers of the faithful, check in with local communities holding vigil across the country, and hear about the latest election related news and opportunities to act to ensure all citizens can meaningfully participate and all legal votes are counted.

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The Leadership Conference for Women Religious (LCWR) has prayer resources for an LCWR Election Novena of Prayer leading up to the US National Election. Beginning Monday, October 26 thru November 3, a 10-minute contemplative prayer will be posted for each day on the LCWR website. The daily prayer will be posted by 7:30 pm on the preceding day, with the first posting on Sunday evening, October 25. The daily posting will allow the prayer to be responsive to what is happening in our world, in our lives, and in our congregations. 

Go the prayer site

Together, we will pray utilizing the USCCB's Novena for Faithful Citizenship, share prayers of the faithful, check in with local communities holding vigil across the country, and hear about the latest election related news and opportunities to act to ensure all citizens can meaningfully participate and all legal votes are counted.

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The Leadership Conference for Women Religious (LCWR) has prayer resources for an LCWR Election Novena of Prayer leading up to the US National Election. Beginning Monday, October 26 thru November 3, a 10-minute contemplative prayer will be posted for each day on the LCWR website. The daily prayer will be posted by 7:30 pm on the preceding day, with the first posting on Sunday evening, October 25. The daily posting will allow the prayer to be responsive to what is happening in our world, in our lives, and in our congregations. 

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Together in Silent Solidarity & Prayer for Discernment, Peace & Transformation

The Leadership Conference of Women Religious invites you to 24 hours of contemplative prayer on Tuesday, November 3.
This day of prayer is open to all, bridging the divide between culture, religion and politics through the witness and commitment women religious make to the power of collective contemplation.

There will be no presentations or comments during the virtual gathering. To participate, use the button to enter the virtual prayer space, and join women religious from around the world as they pray in silence.

Click the button below to enter the Virtual Prayer Space.

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Together, we will pray utilizing the USCCB's Novena for Faithful Citizenship, share prayers of the faithful, check in with local communities holding vigil across the country, and hear about the latest election related news and opportunities to act to ensure all citizens can meaningfully participate and all legal votes are counted.

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Sisters & Seekers is based on a national program called Nuns & Nones. Our purpose is to come together as women from diverse spiritual backgrounds and belief systems to reflect on the deeper meaning and spiritual questions of our lives in a world that is chaotic, polarized, and fear-driven.

Sisters & Seekers gatherings follow these guiding principles:

• Create safe places for relationship, dialogue, inquiry, and spiritual practice that can inform personal social action.
• Welcome mutual learning and pluralistic thought- not persuasion of belief
• Aim to root oneself in a personal spiritual foundation that can bring forth a more just and loving world, no longer dependent on systems of extraction and oppression.
• At best, grows into a supportive, welcoming and committed community
• Led by a Guiding Committee composed of two capable Sisters and two Seekers

Please use the RSVP button above to indicate your attendance or email csaedie@gmail.com.

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Together, we will pray utilizing the USCCB's Novena for Faithful Citizenship, share prayers of the faithful, check in with local communities holding vigil across the country, and hear about the latest election related news and opportunities to act to ensure all citizens can meaningfully participate and all legal votes are counted.

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Registration for the 2026 Grefenstette Center for Ethics seventh annual Tech Ethics Symposium! This event is co-sponsored by the Patricia Doherty Yoder Institute for Ethics and Integrity in Journalism and Media.

The Symposium will feature expert speakers, panel discussions, and, a perennial favorite, the Student Research Poster competition. This year's schedule will also include a special community storytelling event. 

The event begins at Noon CST on Thursday, November 5, and concludes at 3:45 p.m. CST on Friday, November 6.

Registration is free!

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Together, we will pray utilizing the USCCB's Novena for Faithful Citizenship, share prayers of the faithful, check in with local communities holding vigil across the country, and hear about the latest election related news and opportunities to act to ensure all citizens can meaningfully participate and all legal votes are counted.

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Registration for the 2026 Grefenstette Center for Ethics seventh annual Tech Ethics Symposium! This event is co-sponsored by the Patricia Doherty Yoder Institute for Ethics and Integrity in Journalism and Media.

The Symposium will feature expert speakers, panel discussions, and, a perennial favorite, the Student Research Poster competition. This year's schedule will also include a special community storytelling event. 

The event begins at Noon CST on Thursday, November 5, and concludes at 3:45 p.m. CST on Friday, November 6.

Registration is free!

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Jeffrey Weisheit is scheduled to be executed on November 5 by the state of Indiana for the murders of Alyssa and Caleb Lynch. Please hold Jeffrey, Alyssa, Caleb, their families, and the people of Indiana in prayer. 
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Michael Taylor is scheduled to be executed on November 5 by the state of Alabama for the murders of Ivan and Lucille Moore. Please hold Michael, Ivan, Lucille, their families, and the people of Alabama in prayer. 
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Jesse Guardado is scheduled to be executed on November 5 by the state of Florida for the murder of Jackie Malone. Please hold Jesse, Jackie, their families, and the people of Florida in prayer. 
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James Pavatt is scheduled to be executed on November 12 by the state of Oklahoma for the murder of Rob Andrew. Please hold James, Rob, their families, and the people of Oklahoma in prayer. 
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John Allen Rubio is scheduled to be executed on November 12 by the state of Florida for the murders of Julissa Quesada, John E. Rubio and Mary Jane Rubio. Please hold John, Julissa, John E., Mary Jane, their families, and the people of Florida in prayer. 
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Reinaldo Dennes is scheduled to be executed on November 19 by the state of Texas for the murder of Janos Szucs. Please hold Reinald, Jano, their families, and the people of Florida in prayer. 
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Nidal Hasan is scheduled for execution by the U.S. Military on December 3, for the Fort Hood shooting in Texas, in which he killed 13 soldiers and injured 32 others. Please hold Nidal and all service members and their families in prayer.

Nidal Hasan's stated motivation is to become a martyr. Executing him fulfills that wish, providing him a platform to inspire other religious extremists to replicate his action. Throwing away the key on him will provide severe punishment while not giving him a platform to inspire more terrorist attacks.

If carried out, this would be the first U.S. Military execution since 1961, and it comes at a time when the public is becoming more and more concerned about the use of the death penalty in light of recent failed executions, as well as with a number of other problematic issues regarding mental illness, race, intellectual disability, problematic attorneys and judges, and more.

Please sign the petition asking U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and President Donald Trump to call off this execution.

Want to do more? Please consider attending First Friday Prayer Vigils with Catholic Mobilizing Network. The next vigil is scheduled for November 6, 2026, at 1 p.m. CT, featuring a Scripture reflection from Most Reverend Jaime Soto of the Diocese of Sacramento.  

You can also take action and oppose upcoming executions at https://catholicsmobilizing.org/our-work/death-penalty/executions/ 

The Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes goes on record as being opposed to the death penalty. 
 

Together, we will pray utilizing the USCCB's Novena for Faithful Citizenship, share prayers of the faithful, check in with local communities holding vigil across the country, and hear about the latest election related news and opportunities to act to ensure all citizens can meaningfully participate and all legal votes are counted.

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A Silent Saturday

Every first Saturday of the month Contemplative Outreach of Southeast Wisconsin (COSEW) hosts a half day of prayer. The events are free and do not require pre-registration.

Your group leader is Kathryn Ann Kobelinski.

This is a morning of Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina from 9:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Two 25-minute sits and Lectio Divina (monastic style) with sharing followed by a 20-minute sit. Come for part of the morning or the entire morning, as your schedule allows.

Zoom room opens at 9:00am Central Time.
Prayer starts at 9:15am

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Each time you participate in the Silent Saturday program through COSEW, please consider a monthly or an annual donation. Please select "Scholarship Fund" under the box "My donation is related to...". Thank you for practicing the methods of Centering Prayer and Lectio Divina with the COSEW faith community! Donate here.

The group, Fox Valley for Palestine, is offering a Palestine Film Series this Fall 2026. All films will be screened at the Appleton Public Library on Saturdays at 1:00 pm. The public is welcome.

Series Schedule:

• September 19: “The Voice of Hind Rajab”
• October 10: “The Encampments”
• November 7: “American Doctor”
• December 5: ”Where Olive Trees Weep”

Click on any of the film titles above to view their official movie trailers. The above movies are also available for home viewing on multiple platforms.

Attendees of the Appleton screenings are asked to leave a cash donation after watching each film. Money raised in excess of $1200 (cost to show films) will be donated to organizations supporting Palestinians.

Donations for support can also be mailed to:
David Muelller
1805 Dublin Trail, Apt. 124
Neenah, WI 54956

Learn more at https://foxvalleyforpalestine.org/ 

SPECIAL NOTE: The film, “The Voice of Hind Rajab” is available on Hulu and Netflix. After watching the film, Madison native, LisaAnn Trembath, had this to share with me: “I watched this movie knowing it would be tough, knowing I would weep, knowing I would despair. I was moved by some true spiritual gems: for example, the Red Crescent worker who helped Hind recite prayers to God from the Koran. I was torn apart by the moment when Hind said her family was not sleeping anymore, they were all dead. (What had to happen in her forming brain for her to understand this over the period of an hour or two?)

Why would I suggest anyone watch this movie? Several reasons. One - it really happened, and we can’t turn away from the evil that is being enacted by the Israeli military on innocent people in Gaza. Several forensic reports have been released since the incident went public, and there is no doubt of the accuracy of the story. Two - we see the power of faith and prayer and goodness in the rescue workers, and in little Hind as she prays to God for rescue. Three - we can lament together the loss of the tens of thousands of children’s lives by examining one story of one little girl. Four - there is a painful beauty in true art, and this film is artfully made and should be widely seen.”
 

Together, we will pray utilizing the USCCB's Novena for Faithful Citizenship, share prayers of the faithful, check in with local communities holding vigil across the country, and hear about the latest election related news and opportunities to act to ensure all citizens can meaningfully participate and all legal votes are counted.

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Together, we will pray utilizing the USCCB's Novena for Faithful Citizenship, share prayers of the faithful, check in with local communities holding vigil across the country, and hear about the latest election related news and opportunities to act to ensure all citizens can meaningfully participate and all legal votes are counted.

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Together, we will pray utilizing the USCCB's Novena for Faithful Citizenship, share prayers of the faithful, check in with local communities holding vigil across the country, and hear about the latest election related news and opportunities to act to ensure all citizens can meaningfully participate and all legal votes are counted.

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On Saturday, November 14, 2026, at 11 am CT in the U.S. and 8:00 pm in Jerusalem, Lutheran Peace Fellowship is hosting a conversation with Bishop Dr. Munib Younan, former President of the Lutheran World Federation and retired Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. You are invited to attend. Registration required at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/3FNwOh79TSKscSbU3QnnOg.

You can prepare by watching Stolen Stories | Episode 1: Nakba | ELCA Sumud

“Stolen Stories” is a 5-part educational video series, produced by ECLA Samud. In these short videos you can listen to the voices of Palestinian Christians as they recount their historical narrative from pre-1948 to present day. This series highlights the important perspectives of our Palestinian siblings in Christ and lifts up the experiences of Palestinians-- especially the indigenous Christians of Palestine and Israel-- in their own words. In “Stolen Stories”, Palestinian Christian pastors, bishops, and scholars offer important contextual, historical, and theological framework that continues to shape life in Palestine and Israel today.

Join the Sisters of St. Agnes for contemplative prayer on one Sunday each month from 4-5 p.m in the CSA Chapel (320 County Rd K, Fond du Lac, WI 54937).

The prayer time begins and ends with a prayer. Silence is maintained in the interim to allow for personal prayers. This prayer is for our country, for peace in the world, and for family and friends.

Join us for your special needs and graces. All are welcome to participate for the hour or a portion of it.

Please arrive by 4pm. 

2026
Prayer Dates

August 16
September 13
October 11
November 15
December 13

4-5 PM
320 County Rd K
Fond du Lac, WI 54937
 

The Mission Integration Committee of Marian University is pleased to present a speakers series focusing on Catholic Social Teaching. Each session will focus on a single theme of Catholic Social Teaching and explore it through the lens of a CSA Corporate Stance and a Marian major. The series will take place from 3-4 p.m. in Marian University's Stayer Auditorium. 

Each session is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed to the CSA Channel on YouTube.

September 29 Theme: Call to Family, Community, and Participation
CSA Corporate Statements: Human Trafficking
CSA Speakers: Sr. Rhea Emmer
Division/Major: Social Work

October 27 Theme: Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
CSA Corporate Statements: Women and Church in Society
CSA Speakers: Sr. Julie Ann Krahl
Division/Major: Taylor Bufton – Counselor

November 17 Theme: Rights and Responsibilities
CSA Corporate Statements: Peace and nonviolence
CSA Speakers: Sr. Peg Spindler
Division/Major: Cheryl Seelig – Nursing

January 26 Theme: We are One Human Family
CSA Corporate Statements: Nuclear-Free Zone
CSA Speakers: Sr. Christi Ann Laudolff
Division/Major: Sarah Kieper- Nuclear Science

February 23 Theme: The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers
CSA Corporate Statements: Anti-Racism
CSA Speakers: Sr. Madeline Gianforte
Division/Major: Jessica Little – Business/Marketing & Josh Clary – VP of Student Life and Diversity

March 23 Theme: Care for God’s Creation
CSA Corporate Statements: Earth
CSA Speakers: Sr. Sue Seeby
Division/Major: John Hammond – Science

April 13 Theme: Life and Dignity of the Human Person
CSA Corporate Statements: Death Penalty
CSA Speakers: Sr. Ruth Battaglia
Division/Major: Lindsey Kraig- Criminal Justice