| On December
7, 2001, the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion (Canada-USA) and three other
religious communities committed to ecumenical and interreligious work signed
a joint statement,
Together in Witness. The Sisters
of Sion, the Paulist Fathers, and the Sisters and Friars of the Atonement
reaffirmed their commitment to their specific charisms "to bring mutual
understanding and respect, reconciliation and partnership within our Church,
with other Christians, with the Jewish people, and with those of other world
religions." They expressed, as well, that their four communities
"are joining hands with one another to give clearer and
stronger expression to the church's mission of Christian unity and
interfaith collaboration."
The signing of the joint
statement took place in a prayer service
at Graymoor, Garrison, NY. The community leaders signing the joint statement
were: Margaret Zdunich, NDS, Sion Provincial (Canada-USA); Frank DeSiano,
CSP, President of the Paulist Fathers; Ellen Donahue, SA, Minister General
of the Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement; Arthur Johnson, SA, Minister
General of the Friars of the Atonement.
F. DeSiano,CSP E. Donahue,SA
M. Zdunich,NDS A. Johnson,SA
On October 28 to November 1, 2002
personnel from the four communities offered at
the Washington Retreat House - for members of other religious communities and their associates - a
Colloquium on 'Living and Serving
Faithfully in an Ecumenical and Multifaith World'. |
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