Sr. Glenna Czachor will facilitate Sacraments and Social Mission – Living the Gospel, Being Disciples, a series of seven presentations planned for January through May here, at St. Hubert. The forum is a presentation of the Café Ministry’s Catholic Minds – Catholics Matter Speakers Series. Sister Glenna holds a master’s degree in Pastoral Studies from Chicago’s Catholic Theological Union and is a graduate of the Heyschia School of Spiritual Direction in Tucson, AZ.
While each scripture-based presentation is freestanding, the entire program is designed to explore Catholic social teaching and celebrate the sacraments as signs of grace that lead us to a deeper reality. Sister Glenna hopes the January 9 introduction focusing on Catholic Social Teaching (she considers it “the best kept secret in the church’’), will encourage continued attendance throughout the entire series. ``The sacraments are signs of grace that make a deeper reality present to us’’ she says.
Attending a Cursillo, a spiritual retreat, prompted her to give her career at the Chicago Board of Trade a second thought. She began to suspect that, perhaps, it was not what God had in mind for her. So, she did the next best thing. Became a nun. Well, not right away. For the next two years, she studied the life of St. Francis and– as she puts it - she ‘hung out’’ with the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters. The experience convinced her God was calling her to that life. Some 25 years later, Sister Glenna serves the order as a Community Outreach and Retreat Specialist. She specializes in contemplative prayer and worship, scripture study and creative spirituality.
Organization, strategic thinking, dependability and other skills she honed in the business world serve Sister Glenna well in her spiritual work. She is warm, dynamic, caring and an avowed ``people person.’’ Her mother often said she could make a friend in five minutes – and frequently does. Please come and see for yourself.