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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...
Associate Day 2019
May 16, 2021 – Seventh Sunday of Easter (in some dioceses: Solemnity of the Ascension)
Readings: (Seventh Sunday of Easter) Acts 1:15-26; Psalm 103; 1 John 4:11-16; John 17:11b-19; (Ascension) Acts 1:1-11; Psalm 47; Ephesians 1:17-23; Mark 16:15-20 Change is in the air! The warmer spring weather helps, of course. More than in previous years, it seemed,...
May 9, 2021 — Sixth Sunday of Easter, Mother’s Day & Feast of St. Louise de Marillac
READINGS: Acts 10: 25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98; 1 John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17 Themes abound today: Eastertide readings; the feast of St. Louise de Marillac, special for the Sisters of Charity and the entire Vincentian Family; Mother’s Day. Many threads in today’s...
A Woman to Remember – Barbara Ford, SC
By Bill Hurley, Associate As we walk through life, the average person meets a few hundred thousand people. I venture to say that perhaps one hundred of them make a lasting impact on each of us. I first met Sister Barbara Ford in 1996. In one morning, she clearly...