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As Sisters of Charity of Our Lady, Mother of the Church we embrace our two-fold mission of sanctity and service. In a spirit of simplicity we aspire to live a life rooted in the Gospel, in imitation of Mary and expressed by prayer, charity, self sacrifice and loving obedience. We devote ourselves to the works of charity, and as true daughters in the heart of the Church, we serve others through ...
- “The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The LORD is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid?” Psalm 27:1 - Sister Mary Kathleen, SCMC
- “The Lord is my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.” Psalm 23:1 - Sister Mary Patrick, SCMC
- “For with God nothing will be impossible.” Luke 1:37 - Sister M. Josephine, SCMC
- - Sister M. Gabriel, SCMC
- “And he cried, ‘Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!’” Luke 18:38 - Sister Elizabeth, SCMC
- “What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost, until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.” Luke 15:4-5 - Sister Marie Lucette, SCMC
- “Lord, you have probed me, you know me: you know when I sit and stand; you understand my thoughts from afar.” Psalm 139 - Mother Mary Mark, SCMC
- “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life…” Psalm 27:4 - Sister Mary Jane, SCMC
- - Sister Marie Alexandria, SCMC
- II. Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
- III. Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth
- IV. Sisters of Charity
- V. Sisters of Charity of The Blessed Virgin Mary
- VII. Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary
- VIII. Sisters of Charity of St. Louis
- IX. Sisters of Charity of St. Paul
- X. Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of Mercy
—In 1817 Sisters Rose White, Cecelia O’Conway and Elizabeth Boyle were sent by Mother Seton to found a community of the Emmitsburg Sisters of Charity in New York. It was the second branch of the new American institute, the first being at Philadelphia (1814). They took charge of the orphanage, a small wooden building at Prince and Mott Streets. In t...
… (mother house at Convent Station, near Morristown, New Jersey), a community founded at Newark, in 1859, by Mother Mary Xavier Mehegan, who for twelve years previously had been a member of the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in New York. In 1858 Bishop Bayley, of Newark, applied to the superior at Mount Saint Vincent’s, New York, for sis...
… founded in 1854 by Bishop, subsequently Archbishop, Connolly. Two years before this the bishop had sent Miss Honors Conway (Mother Mary Vincent) to the novitiate of the Sisters of Charity in New York to prepare for the foundation of a local community. The cholera epidemic of 1854 left many orphans in St. John and other parts of the province. When...
… a congregation begun by five young women in Dublin, Ireland, December 8, 1831, with the purpose of devoting themselves to the service of God in the education of children. They opened a school in North Ann Street, Dublin, on March 19, 1832. Eager for more complete self-sacrifice, they resolved to leave their native land, and chose Philadelphia, U....
… a congregation founded in 1803 by Canon Triest, who was known as “the St. Vincent de Paul of Belgium“, for he was the founder as well of the Brothers of St. John of God, and the Sisters of the Infant Jesus. When cure of Lovendeghem he laid the foundations of this congregation, and gave up his living to devote himself to training its members. He o...
—This congregation was founded at Vannes in Brittany, in 1803, by Madame Mole, nee de Lamoignan, for the education of poor girls, at the suggestion of Bishop de Pancemont, of Vannes, who was her director. In 1805 Pius VII blessed the undertaking, but the final approbation of Romewas not obtained till 1840. The founder was elected superior for life ...
—These sisters who now add (OF CHARTRES) to their title to distinguish them from another congregation of the same name, were founded at Chartres in 1704 by Monsignor Marechaut, a theologian of the Cathedral of Chartres, assisted by Mlle de Tilly and Mile de Tronche. Their first house formerly belonged to a sabot-maker, and this gave them the name o...
… a congregation founded in Holland in 1832 by the Rev. John Zwijsen, pastor of Tilburg, aided by Mary M. Leijsen, for the instruction of children and the betterment of a people deprived of spiritual aid by the disastrous effects of the Reformation. The See of Utrecht had been vacant for about three hundred years when on the restoration of the Cath...
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Jan 19, 2016 · In late June of 1863, the Civil War arrived on the doorstep of the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph in Emmitsburg when the Union Army encamped on their lawn. Mother Seton’s former home, The White House, became a Union general’s office, where he plotted strategy for the impending battle which would alter the course of the war.
May 9, 2023 · The number of religious sisters in the U.S. peaked in 1965 at 178,740, and has sharply declined to 39,452 sisters in 2022, according the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown ...
Frequently Asked Questions. Who are Associates? Associates in Mission are women and men who share in the mission and spirit of the Sisters of Charity. They express in their lives a recognition of God’s presence in prayer, in each other and wherever God’s love is made visible and to share friendship, faith and action in the spirit of the Gospel.
May 8, 1972 · The Sisters of Charity was founded in 1809 by Mother Elizabeth, Seton, a socially prominent Episcopalian wid ow who shocked contempo raries by converting to Ca tholicism and founding a reli gious ...
Apr 9, 2004 · The Sisters of Charity bring compassion, excellence and mainly the compassion part that they seem to bring. That everybody is equal, no matter where you come from. That everybody is equal and to ...
