In keeping with Pope Francis’ thought provoking work Laudato Si’, we are reminded that we are in the midst of another Season of Creation. The PLT encourages the Brothers and all those who work in the name of Blessed Edmund Rice to take time to reflect on the need to do whatever we can to promote care for our common home, Earth.
Students from fourteen schools from across the province gathered at the John Paul II Retreat Center in Kearny, New Jersey on October 12-15, 2023 for the annual ACTION Student Advocacy Workshop designed to train them to become advocates and ambassadors as part of Edmund Rice International’s Ambassador program.
Brother Philip Pinto began his first talk on Emerging Spirituality in Religious Life with a poem by Henry Nouwen.
For the first time in my three-year tenure at OES, I was able to join students from Brother Rice, Chicago, Brother Rice Michigan, O’Dea High School, St. Laurence, and St. Thomas More Collegiate in the annual Brownsville Immersion program.
The Community Leaders, Contact Persons and the PLT gathered at the San Alfonso Retreat center in Long Branch, New Jersey, November 10-12, 2023.