WELCOME FRIENDS! On this blog and on my site www.picasaweb.google.com/barbpaleczny I'll share some photos and notes about where I am and a little of what I am doing. It is difficult, however, to get a computer, so please be patient!
Sister Barbara Paleczny SSND, PhD
New Hour, New Blessings
Sister Barbara Paleczny SSND, PhD
Sister Barbara's watercolor, acrylic and oil paintings reveal her inner life of awe and gratitude as she depicts her dreams, intution, prayer, and some of the hopes and joys, griefs and sorrows of humanity that are etched deeply in her heart. She has discovered that that what is in our hearts is what is most needed to bring peace and justice and that lament for social injustice belongs in public. Through her paintings, Barbara meets others in surprisingly deep encounters. Her creativity flows directly from her connecting with the powers of the universe. It also brings her personal health and well being.
Dr. Barbara Paleczny is co-ordinator of the SHALOM Network for justice, peace and the integrity of creation for the Dallas Unit of her community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Sister Barbara is an artist, author, academic and an educator. Of Canadian origin, Sister Barbara has lived in England, Bolivia and now San Antonio, Texas. Daughter of two garment workers, she has published four books, the most recent being Clothed in Integrity: Weaving Just Cultural Relations and the Garment Industry. She is currently working on a fifth book about spirituality, creativity, dreams, creation, symbols and imagery.
Her social-justice and peace paintings have been exhibited regionally and internationally.
Dr. Barbara Paleczny is co-ordinator of the SHALOM Network for justice, peace and the integrity of creation for the Dallas Unit of her community, the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Sister Barbara is an artist, author, academic and an educator. Of Canadian origin, Sister Barbara has lived in England, Bolivia and now San Antonio, Texas. Daughter of two garment workers, she has published four books, the most recent being Clothed in Integrity: Weaving Just Cultural Relations and the Garment Industry. She is currently working on a fifth book about spirituality, creativity, dreams, creation, symbols and imagery.
Her social-justice and peace paintings have been exhibited regionally and internationally.
Sister Ann Semel SSND, PhD
An Eye for Beauty
Sister Ann Semel SSND, PhD
Sister Ann Semel is a professor of English and Communications at St. Mary's Universtiy in San Antonio, Texas. Well known and acclaimed for her forty years of teaching there, she is a professor whom "students love to dread." Actually, she is best known for her love of her students and the faculty. Alumni created a scholarship in her name, the first at St. Mary's named in honor of a woman and the first there for any person still living.
Present students and alumni often visit their home which is also Notre Dame Gallery where Sister Ann's watercolor paintings are displayed along with Sister Barbara's. She has also photographed all of Barbara's paintings and her own as well so that they matted prints and cards of them all.
Present students and alumni often visit their home which is also Notre Dame Gallery where Sister Ann's watercolor paintings are displayed along with Sister Barbara's. She has also photographed all of Barbara's paintings and her own as well so that they matted prints and cards of them all.
Out of the Flame of Our Days
Watercolour painting. In prayer, with Jesus, Mary, Mothers Theresa and Caroline
Barbara now lives in Malakal, South Sudan
Oct. 18, 2008. I am in Juba for a few days and then to Malakal, South Sudan where I will be part of our SSND community working in an international team from various congregations of women and men to train teachers and health care workers. There are sixty religious congregations sponsoring the project and twenty committed to work there. Sister Cathy Arata SSND is the overall coordinator of the projects.
I will share more as I can get access to a computer.
Thank-you for your support. Peace for you and your loved ones and our world.
I have peace for thousands. Let's share peace everywhere, always. . . and dare to create it!
I will share more as I can get access to a computer.
Thank-you for your support. Peace for you and your loved ones and our world.
I have peace for thousands. Let's share peace everywhere, always. . . and dare to create it!
LINKS:
Barbara Paleczny, Original Watercolor
Out of the flame of Our Days We Build the Fire and Keep It Burning (Blessed Theresa Gerhardinger, Foundress of SSND)
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Welcome to our Gallery. We invite you to view the photos of our paintings by using the links at the bottom. Details about the paintings and comments may be accessed by clicking on a painting. You can also view the paintings as a slide show.
Please note that all paintings have been officially registered and copyrighted at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
These paintings are inspiring and fill the soul with a brilliance matched by the vibrant colors of the paintings. I often turn to these paintings when I need to be lifted from my everyday state of being. The writer Gloria Anzaldua decribes a state of being that I believe captures what these paintings do for me: "Confronting anything that tears the fabric of our everyday mode of consciousness and that thrusts us into a less literal and more psychic sense of reality increases awareness and la facultad"(from "Entering into the Serpent" cited in her book Borderlands/Lafronera).
Dear Sr. Barbara
Recently blogged a brief article about a Catholic Spiritual Renewal program based on your book 'Becoming Followers of Jesus' & celebrated by numerous small groups in Canada during the mid eighties. Would like ask you several questions about this dynamic program.
Bert
St. Catharines, ON
Canada
Hi Sister Barbara! Are you still in Africa or back in Texas? Blessings! Christine Guedri(I volunteered in San Antonio about ten years ago and stayed with you, Sister Ann and Sister Milli.
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