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February 12, 2017—Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings: SIR 15:15-20, PS 119:1-2, 4-5, 17-18, 33-34, 1 COR 2:6-10, MT 5:17-37 The first reading and the Gospel discuss the law of the Lord. The Psalm Response from Psalm 119 calls us blessed if we follow the law of the Lord. These readings...
February 5, 2017 — Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Readings: IS 58:7-10, PS 112:4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 1 COR 2:1-5, MT 5:13-16 February begins with the feast of the Presentation on February 2. The universal Church also celebrates the World Day for Consecrated Life on this day and it is recalled in parishes the weekend of...
The Sisters of Charity — Leading the Way in the Struggle Against Human Trafficking
(The following is a letter from the president, Sister Jane Iannucelli, SC) Dear Friends, One of the most urgent moral issues of our time is finally attracting attention. January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month—and on this issue, the Sisters of Charity are leading...
SCNY President and Leadership Team Respond to President’s Executive Order
With hope in the future, Sr. Jane Iannucelli, President; Sr. Margaret O’Brien, Assistant to the President; and Sisters Mary Ellen McGovern, Sheila Brosnan, Mary Ann Daly, and Kathleen Byrnes, Regional Coordinators; issued the following statement: Moses told the people...
January 15, 22, 29, 2017 — Second, Third, & Fourth Sundays in Ordinary Time
From the wonder of Christmas and the majesty of Epiphany, our energy (and the Church’s, too) now shifts. We’ve knelt with shepherds and sages, mesmerized by the sight of God-with-us as a helpless child. We’ve heard how this child of peace strikes terror in the hearts...
Evening Prayer Service Opens 200th Anniversary Celebration
More than 300 Sisters, Associates, Companions, and colleagues came together in the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mount Saint Vincent for the Evening Prayer Service on Sunday, January 8 that ushered in the Congregation’s 200th Anniversary celebration. As music...
Growing Mission in Guatemala
Sister Jane Iannucelli, President, and Sister Mary Ann Daly, Regional Coordinator, traveled to Quiché Guatemala on December 31, 2016 to join Sisters Nora Cunningham, Gloria De Arteaga, Rosenda Castañeda Gonzalez, Virginia Searing, and Marie Tolle for a Mass and...
In Memoriam: Sister Marion Halpin, SC
She enjoyed working with the children whom she taught and the senior citizens whom she counseled and assisted… Sister Marion Halpin (Sister Marie James) was born January 28, 1917 in Scranton, PA. She was the only daughter of Edward and Mary McNiff Halpin and had one...
How the Sisters of Charity Arrived in New York
By Regina Bechtle, SC In September, 1809, soon after Mother Seton began her community in Maryland, Rev. Anthony Kohlmann, S.J., administrator of the New York diocese, wrote to her with the hope that she would eventually send “a small colony of your Holy Order” back to...
Celebrating 200 Years of Service
On August 13, 1817, Elizabeth Ann Seton sent three Sisters to New York to serve the growing number of orphans resulting from the cholera epidemic and the poverty of the newly arrived immigrants. For 200 years the Sisters of Charity have seen and recognized the needs...