LCWR Award for Sr. Pat Murray

Upon accepting the award, in her speech sr. Pat addressed the Assembly, offering the reflection on three landscapes, which seem to call women religious to live in: global interconnected landscape, Synodal landscape and a landscape of luxurious diversity:

"In a recent article Thomas O’Loughlin wrote that “Diversity is everywhere. Diversity is richness and the source of beauty. Diversity is what makes life worth living.” It is luxurious. Within religious life, we experience this growing diversity especially of cultures and ethnicities. How can we as members of religious congregations, with a purpose, a charism, bring a positive contribution to the challenge of global intercultural living? We can demonstrate a new way of relating with the “other” within our religious communities, within local and global communities that embodies a hopeful perspective for future life in the world, based on the values of solidarity, justice and dialogue. The global networks of sisters and the many inter-congregational projects that are emerging today witness prophetically to the oneness of humankind. We know from the experience of Pentecost that the Spirit is the One “unifying in our diversity and diversifying in unity.”  This is a reality that we have to make present in our daily living and that we must witness to others."

Watch the tribute to sr. Pat Murray and her acceptance speech