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SC Ministries Continue to Serve those in Need
The following is taken from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. Even in the best of times, the Sisters of Charity ministries face numerous challenges. Helping the homeless, those who are hungry, the many who suffer from mental health difficulties or a myriad of...
Sisters Hill Farm: Hope Amidst the Pandemic
The following is taken from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. “Praise for the farmers, tilling soil, planting seeds so food can grow, an act of hope if ever there was.” This verse from Christine Valters Painter’s Praise Song for the Pandemic aptly describes the work at...
COVID-19 & Casa de Esperanza
The following is taken from the Summer 2020 issue of Vision. There is an unforgettable image with which most of us are familiar: Christ on the breadline standing along with a line of impoverished men and women who are suffering through the Depression. He is there, one...
One Congregation Work Group Brings Associates Together
It was a warm and muggy Saturday afternoon in New York but a sunny and comfortable day in Guatemala when 39 sisters, associates, and companions from both countries gathered virtually for a retreat focusing on the experiences of being quarantined during the COVID-19...
Sisters Memorialized in Videos
Nine Sisters of Charity went home to God during the height of the pandemic last spring. In lieu of our treasured tradition of paying tribute to our sisters’ lives and sharing stories together as a Congregation, a video commemorating the life of each sister who passed...
SC Legacy: Sister Mary Frances Wallace, Founding SCNY Member
Sister Mary Frances Wallace, one of the founding Sisters of Charity of New York, died on this day in 1890 and is buried in the Sisters’ Cemetery at Mount Saint Vincent. Maria Wallace entered the community in Emmitsburg, Md., in 1832. A few years later, she was sent to...
SC Legacy: Sister Mary Kelly—A Smile that Cared
Almost every Sister of Charity has a story to tell. Unfortunately, many choose not to tell it or have it told. My friend, Sr. Mary Kelly (Sr. John Mary), was one of these Sisters. I realized this recently when I learned so many in the Congregation never knew her....
Sisters of Charity Saddened by Announced Closing of Twenty Archdiocesan Schools
We, the Sisters of Charity of New York, extend our heartfelt prayers and support to all children, parents, teachers, school and church staff/administrators, and all members of the Archdiocese of New York as we process the devastating news that twenty Catholic Schools...
Together as One
As the pandemic was spreading in New York in mid-April, Sr. Donna Dodge, President of the Congregation, had an idea: a prayer card with a thumbnail image of every Sister of Charity. Together as One includes a photo of every living Sister of Charity of New York as...
A Time of Deepening Contemplation
Despite the challenges of sheltering in place, the past months have been a time of deepening contemplation and a call to live the Beatitude: Blessed are they who mourn. As I understand what this blessing meant in Jesus’ time, to sorrow over the suffering of the people...