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Statement for National Unity and Healing
We, the Sisters of Charity of New York, are called to be women of healing, sensitive to the wounds of persons and the social evils of our times. We strive to use every means in our power to reconcile and bring into unity persons and groups who are alienated or...
Re–Membering … Sister Mary Ulrica O’Reilly
Ulrica O’Reilly! Sisters smile when they hear her name. Wasn’t she the Civil War heroine who defied the mob and single-handedly saved the soldiers and military hospital from the angry rioters? She’s the very one! In “Nuns of the Battlefield,” Ellen Ryan Jolly tells us...
Litany of Elizabeth Ann Seton
Elizabeth, loving daughter Encourage in all children obedience and love Elizabeth, troubled teenager Speak to today’s confused, sometimes abused young people Elizabeth, Faithful wife Grant gifts of love and generosity to all spouses Elizabeth, caring mother Share your...
Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
January 4, 2021 marks the 200th anniversary of Elizabeth Ann Seton's death. Elizabeth Ann Seton Wife, mother, foundress, saint. Her steadfast fidelity, unwavering hope, astute ability to trust in her own experiences, make her a woman for our times as for her own....
Epiphany Reflections
EPIPHANY… … sign, summons… … star, angels’ song... … response, risk, search… … revelation, discovery, faith SEEKERS OF GOD, CALLED & SENT… Mary and Joseph – Shepherds and sages – Simeon and Anna – Elizabeth Seton, Elizabeth Boyle & the early...
In Memoriam: Sister Grace Thérèse Murray, SC
Sister Grace was a dynamic teacher who believed that education was the door to a better future for her students, no matter their age, and she dedicated her life to this value. Sister Grace Thérèse Murray (Grace Theresa) was born August 30, 1927, in Atlantic City, New...
Christmas Blessings
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...
Christmas Season Visits to Our Sisters’ Grave Sites
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...
Historic Zoom Meeting Joins Congregation in Advent Waiting
“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...
Christmas Events at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Manhattan: Photographs, 1943 – 1985
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...