Our Sisters
Profiles of Sisters of Charity
Getting to Know You: Sister Margaret McEntee, SC
Sisters of Charity Celebrate National Catholic Sisters Week My name is Sister Margaret McEntee, but I’m called Peggy by family and friends. My religious name was Sister Marita James, which I requested in honor of my father and brother. I entered the Sisters of...
Getting to Know You: Sister Mary Edward Zipf, SC
By Lorraine Cooper, SC As a child, Sr. Mary Edward suffered several hardships. Her baby sister died eight days after she was born and her mother died a year later when she was only three. Sickness was a constant in her family, so fun and light-heartedness were a must....
Sisters in Ministry: Sister Florence Mallon, SC
By Carol De Angelo, SC For the past four years, Sr. Florence Mallon, SC, has been Pastoral Associate for Special Ministries at St. Joseph Parish, Bronxville, NY. For fourteen previous years, St. Joseph’s Parish employed Sr. Florence as hospital chaplain at...
Conversations with Sister Theresa Gravino, SC
By Charlotte Raftery, SC I am so touched in my most important ministry right now by the gift and privilege of visiting my eighty-nine-year-old brother, Dom, at St. Joseph Nursing Home. He is such an example to me, so accepting of his situation. He never complains. I...
Conversations with Sister Helen Connors, SC
By Charlotte Raftery, SC My current ministry is being a companion to the Sisters at the Convent of Mount Saint Vincent. Doing this in a quiet, low key, non-threatening way really helps them to feel more free and energized to engage in their ministry of prayer and...
Getting to Know You: Sister Marie Paula Holdman, SC
By Lorraine Cooper, SC Sr. Marie Paula, at 96, greatly embodies the spirit of Mother Seton, the educator. Without planning it, love for writing seemed to be an attraction for her throughout her life. Creative expression was seeded in her heart by a grade-school...
Getting to Know You: Sister Alberta Carey, SC
By Lorraine Cooper, SC Sister Alberta Carey wanted to share, first and foremost, how grateful she is for God’s goodness and care to her throughout her fifty-four years as a religious, forty-two of them as a Sister of Charity. The experience of her mother’s love and...
Getting to Know You: Sister Joan Anderson, SC
By Lorraine Cooper, SC In 2007 Sr. Joan Anderson became one of our retirees at the Convent of Mount Saint Vincent. In spite of rheumatoid arthritis, she can be seen managing convent finances or acting as receptionist at the front desk with her crochet hook or...
Getting to Know You: Sister Genevieve Wetmore, SC
By Lorraine Cooper, SC Sister Genevieve’s first assigned ministry as a Sister of Charity was to be a first-grade teacher at St. Margaret of Crotona School in the Bronx. Being an early-childhood teacher was to be her joy and privilege for the next fifty-five years. She...
YCL: Sister Andrea Dixon, SC
For this week's Year of Consecrated Life Sister of Charity, we invite you to visit SisterStory.org, where our Sister Andrea Dixon, SC, was featured last year during National Catholic Sisters Week. Click on the link below to read about our dynamic Sister Andrea....