"I basically believe we are God's creation, made in God's image and likeness. So much of the trouble of the world is caused by fear, hurt and ignorance. If we trust in humanity, if we teach, help and reconcile each other, then we can love one another into life."
- Thea Bowman, FSPA, Creation magazine interview as told in
Shooting Star
Thea News and Events
La Crosse, Wisconsin Mayor declares March 30 "Sister Thea Bowman Day.
Thea's close friend, School Sister of Notre Dame Addie Walker, sums up Thea's gift: She was "a black woman of faith who lived it with great freedom and integrity, and not without cost." She was God's child, says Walker, and thus was free to follow a different path. "Many of us try to meet with other people's expectations; try to live what other people expect. ... She didn't live with that."
"In my words," says Walker, "her teaching style was always to forsake the process and save the people." That legacy still lives, she says, because "people taught by her are still affected by her. Her teaching still burns within them ... I think her impact will be long-lived because she was an embodiment of love. She affirmed the very being of persons."
Sisters Thea Bowman and Addie Walker
Celebrate Sister Thea's joy with us today and always by granting a gift in her name. Scroll down the page and in the box marked "In memory of..." enter "Sister Thea Bowman."
Join us for Mass on March 30
Recognizing Sister Bowman's death anniversary, presider and homilist Rev. Maurice Nutt will be joined by the Viterbo University concert choir for Mass on March 30. For friends of Sister Bowman unable to attend, Mass will stream live at 10:30 a.m. CST.
