by Communications Office | Aug 5, 2021 | Guatemala, NEWS, Vision
The following is from the Summer 2021 issue of Vision. by Mary Mc Cormick, SC New York Sisters of Charity have always cherished Elizabeth Seton’s understanding of her desire to be known as a “citizen of the world.” Sr. Marie Immaculata Burke provided care to...
by Communications Office | Jul 30, 2021 | NEWS, Reflections, Spirituality
July 31 marks the foundation day when Elizabeth Seton began the community in Emmitsburg. By Regina Bechtle, SC On a hot summer day in 1809, a group of women made their way to a lush valley in the rolling hills of northern Maryland, near the village of Emmitsburg. They...
by Communications Office | Jul 16, 2021 | Guatemala, NEWS
For six weeks this summer the Barbara Ford Peacebuilding Center is hosting three undergraduate engineering students from the Albert Nerken School of Engineering at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. The Guatemala experience is the newest element...
by Communications Office | Jun 24, 2021 | NEWS, Vision
The following is from the Spring 2021 issue of VISION. By Regina Bechtle, SC “People are hungry, and one good word is bread for a thousand.” As David Whyte reminds us in his poem, “Loaves and Fishes,” and as many events of recent months attest, words...
by Communications Office | Jun 23, 2021 | NEWS, Reflections, Spirituality
“I live in hope – you know, and if in this world all is blasted, still we will hope and hope to the last.” – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (Elizabeth Bayley Seton, Collected Writings, Volume 2, 649) Hope by its nature desires something in the future, and expects to receive...
