The St. Joseph Worker Program staff is preparing to welcome the SJWs for the program’s third year. There will be six SJWs for 2019-2020 who be arriving on August 18, 2019. They are: Bryanne Devlin from San Antonio, Texas, a graduate of Texas A&M, will be serving in our CSJ JPIC Office. Natalie Garcia from Murrieta, CA, a graduate…
Long Island Nursery and Landscape Association held its Summer Twilight Tour on our Brentwood campus. Forty attendees came to see our sustainable projects and to hear about our Land Ethic. They were interested and enthusiastic about our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and to protect. preserve and restore the land at Brentwood. Luke J. Gervase and Caroline Schnabl from…
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The Sisters of St. Joseph are the grateful recipients of a grant from the New York State Department of Agriculture and Market’s Community Gardens Grant Program. With the $5,721 dollars received, our Garden Ministry is making nice progress on the community garden beds on our Brentwood campus. Currently six out of the 21 planned beds are built. As our community…
We are fortunate to have volunteers to help with our garden and farm ministries in this busy growing season. Our farm volunteers are registered with the World Wide Organization of Organic Farmers (WWOOF). WWOOF is a worldwide effort to link volunteers with organic farmers, promote an educational exchange, and build a global community conscious of ecological farming practices. Volunteers, or ‘WWOOFers’, spend…
Since 1969, Pronto has been serving the people of the Brentwood, Bay Shore and surrounding neighborhoods in need of basic human services. Over the past 50 years Pronto moved from the basement of St. Anne’s Church, to a storefront in Brentwood, and today its spacious building can be found on Pine Aire Drive in Bay Shore. One of the persons…
For the past 25 years, The CSJ Learning Connection (TLC) has been providing the tools to empower women who are undereducated, lack a high school diploma, or speak languages other than English. In a safe and caring environment women participate in a course of study suited to their needs, abilities and personal goals. Many of the women who enroll with…
On Thursday, May 23, 2019, Rural & Migrant Ministry honored Sister Rosalie at their Cultivating Justice Dinner. RMM first got to know S. Roslaie through the Justice for Farmworkers Campaign. Sister was relentless in her efforts to demand that Long Island State Senators change the unjust labor laws impacting farmworkers. Her presence and determination was an inspiration and gave hope.…
Avila Institute of Gerontology – Spirituality for Elders In 1929 Venerable Mary Angeline Teresa founded the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm dedicated to the service and care of the aged and infirm. Diverse in age, background, training and united in the belief that life is precious from the moment of conception to its natural end, the Sisters continue…
The Sisters of St. Joseph Brentwood have been featured in Commonweal Magazine in the article: “In Tech We Trust? Why we should be Wary of Amazon’s Facial Recognition Software.” Click here for the article. Commonweal‘s mission is to provide a forum for civil, reasoned debate on the interaction of faith with contemporary politics and culture. Read by a passionate audience…