by Director of Communications | Aug 17, 2017 | 200th Anniversary, NEWS
The Story Then as now, the Eucharist was the pivotal mystery for Elizabeth Seton and the Sisters of Charity. Her final prayer was that members of the community always remember that they are “daughters of the Church.” It is not hard for us, then, to imagine the three...
by Director of Communications | Aug 16, 2017 | 200th Anniversary, NEWS
The Story Sister Rose White had to say good-bye to the Sisters she had been on mission with for three years in Philadelphia, and to the orphans she had come to know and love. Sisters Cecilia and Felicity were given a lesson in how to respond in fidelity to the cost of...
by Director of Communications | Aug 15, 2017 | 200th Anniversary, NEWS
The Story When Sisters Cecilia and Felicity arrived in Philadelphia, they went immediately to the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum of St. Joseph’s where Sister Rose was director. Mother Seton had named her Sister Servant, leader of this fledgling group of missionaries....
by Director of Communications | Aug 14, 2017 | 200th Anniversary, NEWS
The Story Robert Fox, a New York Catholic whose children attended the Academy in Emmitsburg, volunteered to accompany the Sisters to New York. He met Cecilia and Felicity at Emmitsburg. Their first destination was Philadelphia. There they would meet Sister Rose White,...
by Director of Communications | Aug 13, 2017 | 200th Anniversary, NEWS
The Story Let us imagine Mother Seton as she stood at the door of the White House in Emmitsburg on the morning of August 13, 1817, and wished Cecilia and Felicity God-speed. She, a native New Yorker, knew what neither Sister could have imagined; indeed, she understood...
by Director of Communications | Aug 13, 2017 | 200th Anniversary, NEWS
Introduction In 1809, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and her companions began the first community of women religious in the United States. Their primary ministry was the education of young women, a priority for the Catholic community in the early US republic. They opened an...
