@kardellroberta28 ...Roberta, you might enjoy this post added to https://www.sfccinternational.org/forum/general-news/video-sister-from-india-speaks-out-like-lillanna-kopp-in-sudden-spring

Carmen, you might enjoy this post we just made on the website here: https://www.sfccinternational.org/forum/general-news/video-sister-from-india-speaks-out-like-lillanna-kopp-in-sudden-spring

Teri, you and your sister-brother companions might enjoy this post just added to the website here: https://www.sfccinternational.org/forum/general-news/video-sister-from-india-speaks-out-like-lillanna-kopp-in-sudden-spring

It you don't have time to view the 13-minute video above, move the time slider to 9:00 and hear Sister Shalina speak.

@carmennotario Consilia and I will convey your greetings to Sophia Circle, Carmen. And we will definitely share conclusions from the meeting with you. (Check out the piece we submitted for the Sept-Oct All-To-All when it is published.) A summary of our October meeting should be in the Nov-Dec. ATA issue. But we will share some PDF slides with you before then. We are counting on your prayerful support for the weekend..for what we do is not only for Sophia. It is also for Benelux/Europa SFCC Region and others to the extent it can be of use to you. Much gratitude and many blessings to all our dear sisters and brothers! Lea Anne

Thank you, Carmen...We are ALL learning about this conciliar collegiality and how it differs from procedural collegiality which is more business oriented. We are learning how the two types of collegiality can work well together. I so like the way you put it, Carmen: "When we are so used to do things certain way it sounds surprising to hear that they can be done from a totally different criteria." How very true for ALL of us every day. Please remember Sophia Circle Region as we meet the weekend of Oct 4-6 when we will be exploring further the SFCC charism of collegiality. With gratitude and blessing, Lea Anne

Oops, I meant from our shore to yours!

Congratulations with your success using Lillanna's Collegial Community practice. It is helpful to know of your experience in your job and the compliment your manager gave you, his initial disbelief and your success with SFCC conciliar collegiality which is so much more than a collaborative decision-making process. The discipline of it helps us to experience the unity in diversity which, as you said, is so desperately needed in the world today. Thank you for your sisterhood with us, Teri, with your community. It is so very good to be truly connected with you "in vision and spirit and prayer and song!" Blessings and many warm greeting from your shore to yours as well, Lea Anne and Consilia.

Teri, you and so may others with you are fulfilling Lillanna Kopps's vision and the vision of our early SFCC mothers. Thank you! Thank you all! So glad to hear of the ecumenical connections happening as well. SFCC, like the Church at large, is in the very early stages of exploring Conciliar Collegiality, which Lillanna believed key to both religious life and Christian community. We are trying to locate her book, The New Nuns: Collegial Christians- Audrey Kopp, SNJM 1968 Others in the medical and education professions have explored procedural collegiality with its consensus process and collaborative methods....with mostly negative results. Conciliar Collegiality, however, provides a much deeper experience and relies heavily on a communal discussion which calls forth contributions pro and con...particularly focusing on understanding the why not. It is not goal-oriented for results nor is it interested in efficient conduct of business. It is focused on persons and the necessity of all voices that the Spirit may reveal itself in our midst. Consilia Karli and I look forward to our next Sophia Circle Region meeting where we will all share together in exploring the vision and mission of SFCC to the world in terms of the discipline of Conciliar Collegiality and transfiguragion experience that it evokes. With love and prayer for you and all with whom you work and play and pray, Lea Anne Hunter.