by Director of Communications | Dec 24, 2020 | NEWS
Into this year of bruised and battered dreams, in our ravaged lands and oceans, on the fringes of our stillborn hopes, grace — our grace — comes to meet us in a child, a star, in shepherds and foreigners. God’s love, once made flesh in Jesus, longs to be born anew in...
by Director of Communications | Dec 23, 2020 | NEWS, SC Legacy
It was four full days after the snowstorm that left more than a foot of snow. Blacktop and roadbeds were visible everywhere, thanks to the expert job done by the cleaning crews. I set out for Poughkeepsie’s St. Peter’s Cemetery and met up with Associate Lisa Shay to...
by Director of Communications | Dec 22, 2020 | Advent 2020, NEWS
“Are you not under my protection?” The words that Our Lady of Guadalupe spoke to Juan Diego seemed to be directed to Sisters of Charity, Associates and Companions in the U.S. and in Guatemala as they met on her feast day, December 12, 2020, for their first-ever...
by Communications Office | Dec 15, 2020 | NEWS, SC Legacy
with Reminiscences by Sr. Karen Helfenstein St. Vincent’s Hospital, Manhattan, the first Catholic hospital in New York City, began in a brownstone on East 13th Street in 1849 and grew into a large main campus at West 12th Street and 7th Avenue. The campus included a...
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 | Dec 8, 2020 | NEWS
Dear Friends, I hope you are uplifted in this season of anticipation, as we look forward to celebrating the arrival of our Lord and Savior. After enduring much uncertainty this year, we can all relate to the anxiety Mary and Joseph must have felt on that holy night,...