by Communications Office | Jan 7, 2021 | NEWS, Our Sisters, SC Legacy
Ulrica O’Reilly! Sisters smile when they hear her name. Wasn’t she the Civil War heroine who defied the mob and single-handedly saved the soldiers and military hospital from the angry rioters? She’s the very one! In “Nuns of the Battlefield,” Ellen Ryan Jolly tells us...
by Director of Communications | Dec 10, 2020 | Associates, NEWS, Our Sisters
“Loving God, raise what is awakening in us up to your light that we may better discern the action of your Spirit calling us forth in this dawning age of Charity Rising, now more than ever!” The Sisters of Charity of New York customarily renew their vows every December...
by Director of Communications | Sep 11, 2020 | NEWS, Our Sisters
By Teri Tynes, Communications Associate Congratulations to our sisters who celebrated their 65th and 70th Jubilees at Mass on Tuesday, September 8, 2020. The annual celebration, held on the same day as the Feast of the Nativity of Mary, commemorates the journey of the...
by Director of Communications | Aug 19, 2020 | NEWS, Our Sisters, SC Legacy
At the beginning of January 2016, a small committee began the work of what was initially called “The Cemetery Project.” The purpose of the project was to create a definitive record of cemeteries where Sisters of Charity of New York are buried. Congregation records...
by Director of Communications | Jul 28, 2020 | Heritage, NEWS, Our Sisters, Sisters of Charity Archives
The following is from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. When the 1980 Census was conducted, Sr. Mary T. Higgins was an administrator at Mount Saint Vincent Convent. The sisters who lived at the Convent at that time were determined to be included. The new...
by Director of Communications | Jul 23, 2020 | Memorial Video, NEWS, Our Sisters
Nine Sisters of Charity went home to God during the height of the pandemic last spring. In lieu of our treasured tradition of paying tribute to our sisters’ lives and sharing stories together as a Congregation, a video commemorating the life of each sister who passed...
