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Black History Month: Mother Mary Lange
By Sr. Regina Bechtle Born in Cuba around 1790, Elizabeth Lange emigrated around 1813 to Baltimore, where many refugees from the Haitian revolution (1791-1804) had fled. Finding a lack of public education for black children, she and a friend began to teach them in...
Elizabeth Seton— Educator
(In recognition of National Catholic Schools Week we invite you to read "Elizabeth Seton - Educator" by Sr. Mary E. Mc Cormick, originally published in the 2018 Autumn edition of Vision.) What exactly was Saint Elizabeth Seton’s first school like? How was St. Joseph’s...
A Conversation with People of Faith Welcoming Persons Without Homes
Click graphic to register for event Register to join us on Wednesday, January 25 at 1:30PM for People of Faith Welcoming Persons Without Homes an online conversation with panelists Marc Greenberg, James Addison, Pietro Bartoli, and Tom Dobbins. Part of their...
No Room in the Inn – Affordable Housing and Homelessness
By Sr. Carol De Angelo No room in the inn. The Christmas Posada, a tradition in many Spanish speaking countries during the Christmas Season, reenacts the story of Joseph seeking shelter for Mary about to give birth to Jesus. At each place Joseph and...
Every Tribe and Tongue and People and Nation
Photo credit: Church of the Epiphany, Manhattan, NY Reflection on the Solemnity of the Epiphany, Jan. 8, 2023 My heart aches – I’m sure yours does too – when I hear about the persecution of one ethnic or political group by another. Front and center...
A Turning of a New Season
[Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ urges us to cultivate “hearts...authentically open to universal communion.” (#92) In response to this call in light of our charism of Charity, Sr. Claire E. Regan offered these thoughts on a snowy December morning.] In her recent...
God With Us Through Direct Service and Advocacy
By Sr. Carol De Angelo O Come O Come Emmanuel (God with us). I love the Advent Season. The liturgical readings remind me of waiting in hopeful expectation for the coming of God’s reign in its fulness, of God made flesh … in Jesus and in us and all Creation. Taking a...
Encountering the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist
Project: Personal Reflections on the Eucharist By Sr. Genevieve Wetmore On May 11, 1947 I had the most wonderful "first time" experience of receiving Jesus into my heart and life. As a child i took myself to Mass at nearby St. Peter's Church and loved being there in...
Veterans Day and the Sisters of Charity: They Also Served
By Sr. Regina Bechtle, SC Though not veterans of any branch of the military, Sisters of Charity of New York not only experienced the brutal impact of war but also gave heroic service during several wars. The Civil War Sr. Mary Ulrica O’Reilly supervised 14 Sisters of...
A Special Prayer for Elections 2022
As people of faith and faithful citizens, we pray these days before, on and following Election Day that we work for a democracy that values respect, dignity, inclusiveness, and equity. We pray that voters, election workers, those who hold political office, those who...