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An international celebration of the liturgy showing a contempative sister
with an apostolic sister presenting the bread at the liturgy.

Are you interested in joining the Sisters of Sion?

There are many ways to join in the ministry of the Sisters of Sion:

• searching a vocation with us
• volunteer experiences
• contributing to the development of special ministries and programs

Associates: A Vital Part of Sion

An International Team for Associates and Friends of Sion

A new international team was recently named and their first meeting was April 18-19 in Jerusalem. The General Leadership Team expressed their gratitude for those persons with whom we journey and who share and live "the charism of the Sisters of Sion in its threefold commitment to the Church, to the Jewish people and to a world of justice, peace and love."

The international team comprise Sisters May Babic, Flor Quesada, Ivete Holthman and Teresa Brittain. Two associates will join the team within the year.

The fourfold task already begun:

• To research, report and suggest ways of consolidating the richness that already exists
• To enable the various expressions with persons, groups and institutions to be further developed
• To develop a plan of formation on the level of the Congregation, which could be adapted to the reality of each province as needed
• To encourage provinces to develop, according to their realities, groups of associates.

Searching a Vocation with us

Contact us to learn more about the Sisters of Sion, see below.

Young sisters at international meeting in Costa Rica

Sisters in Formation in Central America with novices from the Philippines

Volunteer Experiences

• An opportunity to volunteer for 1 or 2 months or more at the guest retreat house, Maison Ste. Genevieve, Grandbourg, France
  Contact Sr. Marie Lise – www.monsite,wanadoo.fr/accueilnds
• A volunteer in Winnipeg says: "my time at Eagles Circle School helped me grow, my experiences there have enriched my life, both personally and professionally."
• A volunteer in Jerusalem...at the hostel of the Sisters of Sion in the Old City wrote that it "has been a rich experience for me ... and I even had a chance to take a few Biblical classes and see the country. I am forever grateful." – www.eccehomoconvent.com

I want you all to have Hearts Bigger Than the Whole World – Theodore Ratisbonne. Founder

Kansas City Sion College Grads Volunteer Here and Abroad

In Sion and high school in Kansas City, students are required to do service hours volunteering in the city and elsewhere, such as cleanup for the Katrina disaster. Many students continue on during and after College in programs like the Jesuit Volunteer Corps which requires them to live simply and to work in social justice.

Sue Koehler, working at Innocence Project New Orleans, a non profit law firm who get wrongfully convicted out of prison, says that it was a transformative experience. "It taught me to love at a deeper level by allowing me to be the face of God to those society teaches us to fear. I go forward now to work in solidarity with the poor and marginalized."

"I was challenged to learn a lot about my character and different outlooks," says Sarah Reintjes. She spent a year at Perry School Community in the heart of Washington D.C. teaching in an after school program and coaching soccer and basketball.

Returning from a clinical experience in the mountains of the Dominican Republic, Cara Walkup lived with a family and worked in an International Christian Ignatian-inspired collaborative health and education program.

Mark Munninghoff, a graduate of Sion Locust School in 1999, volunteered for a year coordinating volunteer services and donations at Lakeview Food Pantry in Chicago. He was deeply involved in food distribution, home delivery to the sick and the elderly. He lived on $80. A month.

The list of volunteering for a year spans many but here are a few: teaching in Tanzania (Jessie Bullock), doing an internship in a crowded government hospital that lacks many resources in Mexico (Katie McAnany), working on a project to prevent women being sold into slavery (Elyse Rohrer), starting a free sports clinic, Athletes United, for 100 low income children using Darmouth's facilities. (Becky Poskin)

Programs:

The Cardinal Bea Center for Judaic Studies at the Gregorian University in Rome has two areas. The Center's two aims are: to contribute to a better understanding of Judaism and secondly to further Jewish-Christian relations.

Biblical Program at Ecce Homo or Ein Karem, Jerusalem, contact biblprog@netvision.net.il

Bat Kol - Program for peace in Jerusalem. The aim of the program is "Christians studying scripture within its Jewish Milieu using Jewish sources."

If you have an interest in learning more about the Sisters of Sion and would like to visit us or receive a personal phone call or email, just get in touch with us. Our mission is so needed in the world today.

Our North American contact details are as follows:

In Canada
Congregation of Our Lady of Sion
PO Box 70588
2938 Dundas St. W.
Toronto, ON
M6P 4E7
Canada

In the U.S.A.
Congregation of Our Lady of Sion
6322 N. Wayne.
Chicago, Illinois
60660
U.S.A