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Partners in Ministry – “Keepers of the Flame”
The following is from the Spring 2021 issue of Vision. For over 200 years, partnership with the laity has been a hallmark of the Sisters of Charity mission. Today, this partnership is more important than ever. In this first of a series, the Sisters of Charity are...
May 23, 2021 – Solemnity of Pentecost
READINGS: Acts 2:1-11; Psalm 104; 1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23 In her book Mary for Today (Thomas More Press, 1977), Sr. Patricia Noone, SC reflects on Mary’s presence among the early disciples as they awaited the coming of the Holy Spirit: “The...
From the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers to a Sister of Charity
The following is from the Spring 2021 issue of Vision. It’s a statement often repeated in the world of archivists, “You never know what you are going to find.” Last January 2020, while researching a question in documents from St. Mary’s Hospital, Brooklyn, two...
We Invite You to View Our “Unstoppable Charity” Spring Benefit
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 to address...
Come Holy Spirit
“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....
The Foundling Story – First Board Members’ Impact on the Early Days
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...
Spring Benefit 2021
Unstoppable Charity During the past year, at a time when the need was the greatest, the Sisters of Charity’s work has been unstoppable and without interruption. The frontline workers have been meeting the challenges of the times and have continued to minister...
Memories of Sister Margaret Sweeney (1921 – 2021) – A Conversation between Sister Kevin Phillips and Sister Karen Helfenstein
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,...
A Tree and Some Roses for Sister Elizabeth Judge
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...
