Happy Feast of St. Angela Merici! This year in honor of St. Angela we are designating it a reason to celebrate friendship. Don’t you love a reason to celebrate friendship? This year for our foundress, St. Angela Merici, (feast day, January 27th) we are calling on our alumnae to create a tradition to get together….
Today is the Feast of the Founding of our Company of St. Ursula. On this anniversary we are fortunate to share a message spoken by our Holy Father, Pope Francis, regarding our theme, “A global community moving into new life.” During a papal audience with us last month, he emphasized that it is possible to…
Today is the feast day of St. Ursula! What is the meaning of St. Ursula today? Assuming that you know the legend of St. Ursula these are some thoughts about how she is relevant today. As a role model and courageous leader in the 5th century, St. Ursula stood up to her captors and was…
Happy Feast Day! Today, April 30th, is the Feast Day of the Saint Marie of the Incarnation, an Ursuline Sister who was born in Tours, France in the 16th century. God’s graces inspired her to go beyond her borders of the French Ursuline monastery and venture forth to Canada, New France in 1639 to educate…
Our hope for a better future lies in the rise of a deeper commitment to antiracist work by increasing numbers of individuals and groups engaged in consciousness-raising discussions examining white privilege, systemic racism, and racist practices which will lead to concrete actions for justice in solidarity with people of color. – Margaret Alandt, IHM and…
St. Angela Merici’s story… The Ursuline Sisters (aka “The Ursulines”) were founded by St. Angela Merici in Brescia, Italy in 1535. St. Angela’s vision offered a new kind of religious life for women to dedicate their lives to God and to the service of others while living among the people. This new company of women,…
We wish all of you a very blessed New Year! “In this light, I see What I see is Light itself. The Light is a single Word. I will not cut the diamond; the stone is too precious.” – Sr. Irene Mahoney, OSU (1921-2015) Artwork by Sr. Anne Therese Dillen, OSU
Our Lady of Guadalupe – Guadalupe, Mexico (1531) Patroness of the Americas Feast Day in the USA – December 12th Click on the link below to read the story. //www.catholic.org/about/guadalupe.php Here are some photos of staff at the Ursuline Province Center in New Rochelle, NY dressed up in celebration of this special day!
A voice of one crying out in the desert: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths. Every valley shall be filled and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The winding roads shall be made straight, and the rough ways made smooth, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”…
Today is the anniversary of the foundation of the Company of Saint Ursula by St Angela Merici in 1535. She especially chose this feast of St Catherine of Alexandria showing us the example of her witness to Christ… We pray on this feast for all the daughters of Angela across the world… (Ursuline Sisters of…