Click below to view our grant brochure and application form: 2023 SLW Ministry Grant Brochure 2023 Ministry Grant Application You can also read more about the Grant details below. We, the Sisters of the Living Word, are a community of 46 women religious founded in 1975 and headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Our Mission is …

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The congregations of LCWR Region 8 are committed to a common action to highlight LCWR’s resolution to focus on the intersection of racism, migration, and climate change. Action During Catholic Sisters Week, March 8-14, 2023, we invite – challenge – our Sisters and Associates and those in our ministries to refuse to use any single-use …

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Dear Friends, Ash Wednesday is upon us!  As many of us lately are saying: time is becoming irrelevant.  Just go with the flow!  Well, we are flowing into Lent next week.  In some ways this whole 2023 feels so full of tragedy.  We grieve as we see so much cruelty, and struggle in countries everywhere.  …

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Join us in welcoming Melissa Gonzalez as SLW’s new Mission Advancement Communications Coordinator! She’ll be assisting Amanda Waldhauser, Director of Mission Advancement, with her work to help create and deliver the varied communications from the Sisters. Melissa describes herself as “a professional communicator with a special interest in birth topics.” For the last fifteen years she …

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