Calendar Winners – First Drawing – December 6, 2013 December 1st $100.00 Eileen McCaffery December 2nd $50.00 John Morgan December 3rd $50.00 Elizabeth M. Moss December 4th $50.00 Vina Cullen December 5th $50.00 Teresa Bennett Stiles December 6th $75.00 Eileen Christie, CSJ December 7th $50.00 Elizabeth Donovan December 8th $100.00 Christina B. Wettje December 9th $50.00 Mr. and Mrs. Carson…
Request for Endorsements of ICCR’s “Statement of Principles and Recommended Practices for Confronting Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery. ICCR has published a guidance document entitled, “Statement of Principles and Recommended Practices for Confronting Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery.” This statement will be publicly released on International Human Rights Day, December 10th, 2013. We invite faith-based organizations and congregations, non-governmental organizations,…
“NOT ON OUR TURF” This became the new mantra for more than 120 student leaders from seventeen New York Catholic High Schools and Youth Groups who gathered at The Mary Louis Academy on Saturday, November 16. Teen teachers/members of Project Stay Gold, as well as representatives from Homeland Security and The FBI Victim Services helped them to hear, reflect, and…
“Enflaming the Charism, the Fire Grows” CSSJs of the Future met at St. Joseph’s Villa, Hampton Bays, from November 14 to November 17, 2013. This new venture within the Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph inaugurated a moment of exciting conversations among CSSJs in the Atlantic Conference from Brentwood, Boston, Philadelphia, Springfield, and St. Augustine, FL. These meetings will serve as…
Invocation at SJC Scholarship Gala Honoring Sister Elizabeth Hill November 8, 2013 God of all being, creator, sustainer and spirit of unconditional love, we call upon your presence this evening as we honor Sister Elizabeth Hill for her dedicated service to the mission of Saint Joseph’s College. Founded in 1916 to promote higher education for women, the college met a…
Sacred Heart Parish, North Merrick Honors Sisters Since their founding in 1650, the mission of the CSJs has been to live and work so that all may be one. Still today they meet the varied needs of the dear neighbor through their tradition to divide the city, seek the greatest ills and cure them.” Sacred Heart has had CSJs in…
Click here and view the one hour video Sisters Sisters is a one-hour documentary film that takes us into the lives of five American Catholic Sisters. It is a film about faith and hope, love and death, seen through the eyes of five women who have committed their lives to the service of others in the deepest way. Without narration,…
“Varick Ten” Immigration Advocates Block Traffic and Call on House GOP to Stop Blocking Reform In Act of Civil Disobedience, Ten (including Susan Wilcox, CSJ) are Arrested Outside Varick St. Detention Center Capping off a month of renewed momentum around immigration reform, a diverse crowd of nearly 100 New Yorkers rallied outside the Varick St. Detention Center on Tuesday, Oct. 29 and…
Sisters of St. Joseph joined a pilgrimage with several other groups to consecrate the afternoon of October 27 to solidarity with immigrants. The pilgrimage started at Our Lady of Miraculous Medal Church in Wyandanch and ended with a prayer service at the U.S. Post Office. This event signals the Congregation’s responsiveness to a national Catholic initiative which got underway…
October 5: National Day for Human Dignity and Respect for ALL Sisters of St. Joseph, Associates, co-ministers,and friends attended rallies in Brentwood, Brooklyn, and New York to demand dignity and respect for ALL families, and to call on Congress to pass immigration reform this year. More than 160 rallies were planned throughout the United States. Karina Claudio-Betancourt (Academia Maria Reina,…