Sr. Joanne Desmond, OSU, formerly known as Mother Mary Kevin, graduated as class president from the Ursuline Academy, Wilmington, DE, and attended Immaculata College before entering the Ursuline Order in 1947. Sister Joanne graduated from the College of New Rochelle with a B.A. in History, and also holds an M.A. in Musicology from the Catholic…
Sister Stephanie Wilson, (Janet), died peacefully at Andrus on Hudson, Hastings on Hudson on March 29, 2017. Born in the Bronx, New York, Sister Stephanie was the youngest child of Mary and John Wilson. She received her early education in the Bronx, and graduated from Sacred Heart Academy in Stamford, Ct. Stephanie received her BA…
Today we celebrate the birthday of Saint Angela Merici, who founded the Ursuline Order in 1535. This day in 1474 (543 years ago), she was born in Desenzano del Garda, Italy. Angela Merici lived on Lake Garda with her parents and sister, her closest companions. Angela diligently worked on her father’s farm and was also…
One of Sister Geraldine Kennedy’s Ursuline Sisters remembers her walking up the stairs of the courthouse in Brooklyn with a heavy legal briefcase. Her mission was to advocate for an elderly person in need of her legal expertise through the Brooklyn Legal Services which, for 17 years, is one of many ways she has worked…
Clearly, Sr. Kathleen Mary Donohue has a good sense of humor as she is a life-long Boston Red Sox fan while living in “New York Yankee country” as she calls it where she has spent the majority of her 50 years as an Ursuline Sister. Her vocation, born in “Red Sox Country” in Norwich, CT,…
The Ursuline Provincialate 2015-2016 Annual Report is now available. Please click on the link below to access the online version but if you would like a copy mailed to you, please send your name and address to sara.gunn@osueast.org. 2015-2016 Annual Report online version
Lenten Reflection What If? – Anne Therese Dillen, O.S.U. What if Lent, this lengthy entry in Spring – bereft of birdsong flowers, warmth: a “fast” perhaps, but slow- What if this unwelcome word took on a different cast? Instead of time without- a time “lent” to us by God to fill our treasure chests of…
St. Angela Merici founded the Company of St. Ursula (also known as the Ursuline Order) 482 years ago in 1535. Its members would live for God, on the job or in family life. In sixteenth-century Italy, where women’s choices were marriage or religious life, Angela developed an unheard-of alternative: consecration to God for single women…