by Communications Office | May 21, 2021 | NEWS, Vision
The following is from the Spring 2021 issue of Vision. It’s a statement often repeated in the world of archivists, “You never know what you are going to find.” Last January 2020, while researching a question in documents from St. Mary’s Hospital, Brooklyn, two...
by Communications Office | May 20, 2021 | NEWS, Reflections, Spirituality
“Go to Him with faith, love and confidence – He will help. Fill yourself with his Spirit and He himself will govern.” – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (Elizabeth Bayley Seton, Collected Writings, Volume 3B, 38) As we prepare for Pentecost, the practical advice of St....
by Communications Office | May 19, 2021 | NEWS, Vision
The following is from the Spring 2021 issue of Vision. The plight of abandoned children in the aftermath of the Civil War was acute. Desperate mothers unable to care for their children would leave them on church steps, at convent doors, at times on the streets of New...
by Communications Office | May 19, 2021 | AdminNS
Unstoppable Charity During the past year, at a time when the need was the greatest, the Sisters of Charity’s work has been unstoppable and without interruption. The frontline workers have been meeting the challenges of the times and have continued to minister...
by Communications Office | May 19, 2021 | NEWS
Sister Margaret Sweeney (Sister Mary Jeremiah) was a Sister of Charity for 75 years. A teacher at Saint Joachim School Beacon for two years, in 1950 she was assigned to a “temporary transfer” to St. Vincent’s Hospital, Manhattan, which lasted for forty years. During...
