New banners displayed on the lampposts in the driveway to the Provincial Center show a redesigned laurel tree and tag line on a field of green. The laurel tree reinforces the image rich with meaning for generations. The laurel tree, used as the symbol for the Roman Union Ursulines of the Eastern Province, has…
Bridget Puzon, O.S.U. An article by John Allen in the National Catholic Reporter (July 9, 2012) resonated with some of what I have felt about the present political climate and perhaps overlapping with the effect of the Catholic church’s official positions. Allen pays tribute to the many years of principled, faithful service of John Carr…
China Dreams is a novel by Irene Mahoney, who taught English language at a college in Taiwan. Her experience there opened horizons regarding human interaction in a global society. In this fictional narrative, the first-person narrator goes to Taiwan as a teacher, where she faces the sharp differences between her American culture and that of…
Joseph Flynn, OFM Cap. The fifty days of celebrating Easter have come to a conclusion with the Feast of Pentecost and the descent of the Holy Spirit. In the reading from the Acts of the Apostles in the liturgy for Pentecost, we listen to Luke’s astounding portrayal of the descent of the Holy Spirit and…
Four of the U.S. Ursuline high schools joined together for the 2012 lacrosse tournament hosted by Ursuline Academy in Wilmington, Delaware. It was the 6th in what has become a tradition in the schools. Ursuline Academy in Dedham, Mass., The Ursuline School in New Rochelle, NY, and Ursuline Academy in St. Louis, Missouri arrived in…
Rev. Larry Snyder, President and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, presented the Prioress of the Ursuline Sisters of New Orleans, Sister Carla Dolce, O.S.U., with a Centennial Medal for the order’s long history providing services to people in need, particularly women and children seeking shelter, education and nurturing in early America. The medal was presented…
Sr. Christina Pratt, OSU May 9, 1928 – May 11, 2012 Sister Christina Pratt, born Mary, died peacefully at Andrus on Hudson on May 11, 2012. She had celebrated her 84th birthday with friends the day before. Christina entered the Ursulines on July 15, 1950 in Beacon, NY. She made her first vows on January…
Sister Christine Denesha, died peacefully at Andrus on Hudson in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY on April 5, 2012. She was 89 years old.
Margaret Mary Kelleher, O.S.U. “We should glory in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ in whom is our salvation, life and resurrection, through whom we are saved and delivered.” These are the words of the Entrance Antiphon of the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday. Lent comes to an end and…
Teresa Byrne, O.S.U. The word “together,” in Italian, insieme, appears repeatedly in the writings of Angela Merici: “You must take care to have your daughters come together from time to time…so that together like this, they might also meet each other as loving sisters, and thus…rejoice together, and together encourage one another” (Eighth Legacy). It…