Joanne Gallagher, csj
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | Director of Communication |
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | I am a Sister of St. Joseph [CSJ]. We are a Roman Catholic religious community of women. We are ordinary women from all walks of life. Our special focus, our mission, is to work for unity and reconciliation where there is brokenness, to help people become whole and holy, individually and together. I work as Director of Communication for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston. There are over 12,000 Sisters of St. Joseph and about 5,000 Associates all over the world. My Boston congregation is one of 16 congregations of Sisters of St. Joseph in the United States. The picture at the top is a view of Le Puy, France, where our community was founded over 360 years ago. It was taken on Easter Sunday, 2005, during a visit to the CSSJ International Centre in Le Puy. You can learn more about the Sisters of St. Joseph at the related websites listed above. |
| Interests | spending time with friends and family, reading, music, photography, being at the ocean, mysticism, spending time at Weston Priory in Vermont, graphic design, movies with a message, mandalas, researcing csj history and spirituality, travel -- especially to France and Mexico, dark chocolate, visiting museums, live theater and concerts. |
| Favorite movies | Movies with Meryl Streep, Dead Man Walking, The Power of One, Romero, Tea with Mussolini, Kite Runner, Bucket List, Babette’s Feast, Blind Side |
| Favorite music | Les Mis, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Classical – especially Vivaldi, Mozart, Handal, Celtic Harp – especially Kim Robertson, Native American Flute, Hildegard’s chants, Jackson Brown, Monica Brown, Weston Priory music, Notre Dame Folk Choir, Bernadette Farrell, and more |
| Favorite books | T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, Kite Runner, Pillars of the Earth Team of Rivals Magnificent Obsession, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Dearest Friend, Three Cups of Tea, New Rules for Marketing and PR, Crossing the Unknown Sea, Finding Our Way: Leadership for Uncertain Times, Leadership and the New Science, The Divine Milieu, The Art of Possibility, Psalms for Praying, Christian Mystics by Ursula King, Comunidad para el Mundo by Mary McGlone, CSJ, Nuns without Cloister by Marguerite Vacher, The Devotes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-Century France by Elizabeth Rapley, Paradoxology |