On Sunday, May 7th, Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, attended the 26th Annual Death Penalty Focus Awards Dinner in Beverly Hills, California, hosted by Death Penalty Focus. The annual dinner honors those that have made contributions to ending the death penalty and celebrates their continued work. This year, Sister Helen presented the Mario Cuomo Acts […]
Congregation Announces Plans for Cleveland Property
The Congregation of St. Joseph is pleased to announce that ground will be broken on a new home for our sisters in Cleveland and the River’s Edge Spirituality Center on its existing property on Rocky River Drive later this year. After a period of exploration, it became clear that the sisters’ existing motherhouse could […]
Saint Joseph Academy Selected as the First Recipient of the Bishop Richard Lennon Award
Sponsored ministry, Saint Joseph Academy in Cleveland has been unanimously selected as the inaugural recipient of The Bishop Richard Lennon Award. The award is a sign of gratitude for service to the Diocese of Cleveland and inspiration to its schools. The Bishop Richard Lennon Award is given to a school who, through its […]
Update on MIssion Haiti 2017
From March 12 – 20, 2017, Sisters Mary Ellen Gondeck, CSJ, and Sue Torgersen, CSJ, and associates Judy Iantosca and Brooke Whitten along with her three daughters, traveled to Haiti to check in on Mission Haiti, Inc., a U.S. Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph initiative which sponsors 10 girls from elementary through secondary school […]
Sisters and Students in Crookston Work Together to Fight Human Traffciking
In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Student United Way – Crookston Chapter joined forces with the Sisters of St. Joseph to work on a project called S.O.A.P. (Stop Our Adolescents from Prostitution). The students put labels on soaps that contain the National Human Trafficking Hotline. These soaps, along […]
Sisters Celebrate St. Joseph Day With Academy Students
St. Joseph’s Academy, Baton Rouge On Friday, March 17, St. Joseph’s Academy in Baton Rouge gathered as a school community along with sisters to remember and celebrate the feast of our patron, St. Joseph. They reflected upon our call of service to God and to one another, and the sisters present were honored and thanked […]
Work Toward Gender Equality Continues at UN Event
The Congregation of St. Joseph has a long history of supporting women and women’s issues, and that includes gender equality. Recently, members of our Peace & Justice Team – Sisters Mary Ellen Loch, CSJ, and Rose Ann Hefner, CSJ, and team member Judith Wilkinson – attended the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), […]
St. Joseph Day
March 19, 2017 By Barbara Kupchak, CSJ Wheeling, WV Scripture 2 Sm 7:4-5, 12-14, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24 Reflection It was not through the law that the promise was made to Abraham and his descendants that he would inherit the world, but through the righteousness that […]
First Sunday of Lent
March 5, 2017 By Fran Gilchrist, CSJ Latham, NY ScrIpture Gn 2:7-9; Ps 51:3-6, 12-13; Rom 5:12-19; Mt 4:1-11 Reflection Against you only have I sinned. Ps 51:6 This psalm, prayed daily in Latin during the formative years of religious life, finally has yielded a meaning that is more in tune with the God I […]
Feast of the Epiphany
January 6, 2017 By Margie Edic, CSJ Albany NY Scripture 1 Jn 5:5-13; Ps 147:12-15, 19-20; Mk 1:7-11 or Lk 3:23-38 Reflection …on coming out of the water, he saw the heavens being torn open and the Spirit like a dove, descending upon him. And a voice came from the heaven, “You are my beloved […]
