Women's Awards

"What she has done will be spoken of..." (Mark 14:9)" (Joshua 24:15).

15th Annual

Archdiocesan Catholic

Women's Recognition Awards

August 12, 2012

The Office of Laity & Family Life will be celebrating the giftedness of the women of the Archdiocese of Saint Louis by honoring Catholic women for their contributions to the Church in St. Louis. There are twelve models; each model highights a particular gift. Every year a different model is honored. The women will be chosen by their parishes based on the description of the model's gift to be honored.

The 2012 Awards will be given in the category of

 
Unconditional Committment

This is a woman who has answered God’s call to dedicate herself to the care of another; a woman who puts someone’s continual needs before her own.

 Model

Ruth – “Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, ‘Go back, each of you, to your mother’s house! May the Lord be kind to you as you were to the departed and to me. May the Lord grant each of you a husband and a home in which you will find rest.’ She kissed them good-bye, but they wept with loud sobs…Again they sobbed aloud and wept; and Orpah kissed her mother-in-law good-bye, but Ruth stayed with her. ‘See now!’ Naomi said, ‘your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her god, Go back after your sister-in-law!’ But Ruth said, ‘Do not ask me to abandon or forsake you! For wherever you go I will go, wherever you lodge I will lodge, your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Wherever you die I will die, and there be buried. May the Lord do so and so to me, and more besides, if even death should come between us.” (Ruth1:8-9, 14-18)

 Suggestions: Caregivers Family and Professional, Nurses, Parish Nurses, Doctors

 View the 2011 program for the 14th Annual Catholic Women's Award Celebration

For Evangelizer

View Program Online by Clicking here - Program Web.pdf

For more information, please contact Jo Ann Owings, 314.792.7183.