by Director of Communications | May 21, 2021 | Development, NEWS
Thank you to all our friends and supporters who joined us for the Sisters of Charity of New York “Unstoppable Charity” Virtual Spring Benefit in honor of the frontline workers in our ministries. Since last March, our frontline workers have worked non-stop...
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 | 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...
by Communications Office | May 18, 2021 | NEWS
On the sunny spring morning of May 12, 2021 at 10 am, several people gathered at the corner edge of the Mary Jerome Ely Hall driveway to dedicate a section of garden area defined by a weeping redbud tree and three rose bushes in memory of Sister Elizabeth Judge. A...
by Communications Office | May 15, 2021 | NEWS, Reflections, Spirituality
Readings: (Seventh Sunday of Easter) Acts 1:15-26; Psalm 103; 1 John 4:11-16; John 17:11b-19; (Ascension) Acts 1:1-11; Psalm 47; Ephesians 1:17-23; Mark 16:15-20 Change is in the air! The warmer spring weather helps, of course. More than in previous years, it seemed,...