by Communications Office | Jan 1, 2022 | home, NEWS, Reflections, Spirituality
Blame it on this year’s calendar: the Scripture readings for the 2021-2022 Christmas-Epiphany season could give us whiplash. It’s like the rapid pivoting we’ve all had to do with the COVID-19 virus and its fast-moving variants. December 26, the day after we...
by Communications Office | Dec 30, 2021 | Heritage, home, NEWS, Reflections, Spirituality
December 31, 2021 marks the 175th anniversary of the beginnings of the Sisters of Charity of New York. It’s when “the first election of community superiors was held in the chapel of the Prince Street asylum.” (Walsh 1, 137). Sister Elizabeth Boyle was...
by Communications Office | Dec 18, 2021 | Advent 2021, home, NEWS, Reflections, Spirituality
“Silence has a special place during Advent, a time of waiting and expectancy. Two women who are central to the unfolding Christmas story – Elizabeth and Mary – are themselves in a state of waiting. They are pregnant. And like women the world over, they are tuned to...
by Communications Office | Dec 11, 2021 | Advent 2021, home, NEWS, Reflections, Spirituality
“Shout for joy, O daughter Zion! Sing joyfully, O Israel! Be glad and exult with all your heart, O daughter Jerusalem!… the Ruler of Israel, the Holy One, is in your midst, you have no...
by Communications Office | Dec 4, 2021 | Advent 2021, home, NEWS, Reflections, Spirituality
“Up, Jerusalem! Stand upon the heights; look to the east and see your children gathered from the east and the west at the word of the Holy One, rejoicing that they are remembered by God. Led away on foot by their enemies they left you, but God...
by Communications Office | Sep 4, 2021 | NEWS, Reflections, Spirituality
This season brings many challenges: to continue the hard work of protecting all from the coronavirus, to work for healing of broken persons and unjust structures, to hold the common good as central. We pray for students, teachers and parents, for those who are...
