by Comm Office | Jul 25, 2020 | Ministries, NEWS, Vision
The following is taken from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. “Praise for the farmers, tilling soil, planting seeds so food can grow, an act of hope if ever there was.” This verse from Christine Valters Painter’s Praise Song for the Pandemic aptly describes the work at...
by Comm Office | Jul 24, 2020 | Ministries, NEWS, Vision
The following is taken from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. There is an unforgettable image with which most of us are familiar: Christ on the breadline standing along with a line of impoverished men and women who are suffering through the Depression. He is there, one...
by Comm Office | Jul 23, 2020 | Associates, NEWS
It was a warm and muggy Saturday afternoon in New York but a sunny and comfortable day in Guatemala when 39 sisters, associates, and companions from both countries gathered virtually for a retreat focusing on the experiences of being quarantined during the COVID-19...
by Comm Office | Jul 23, 2020 | Memorial Video, NEWS, Our Sisters
Nine Sisters of Charity have gone home to God since the beginning of the pandemic. Our treasured tradition of paying tribute to our Sisters’ lives and sharing stories together as a Congregation is on hold right now, but the time will come when we will honor their...
by Comm Office | Jul 21, 2020 | Heritage, NEWS, Sisters of Charity Archives
Sister Mary Frances Wallace, one of the founding Sisters of Charity of New York, died on this day in 1890 and is buried in the Sisters’ Cemetery at Mount Saint Vincent. Maria Wallace entered the community in Emmitsburg, Md., in 1832. A few years later, she was sent to...
by Comm Office | Jul 10, 2020 | Heritage, NEWS, Our Sisters
Almost every Sister of Charity has a story to tell. Unfortunately, many choose not to tell it or have it told. My friend, Sr. Mary Kelly (Sr. John Mary), was one of these Sisters. I realized this recently when I learned so many in the Congregation never knew her....
