The leadership of the Ursuline Sisters of the Roman Union, USA provinces recognize the need to support inclusive legislation and action at all levels and to stand against exclusion and racism. We call for comprehensive immigration reform. Recognizing this reform to be a long term process, we urge all of our members and collaborators to…
The Ursuline Sisters of the Eastern Province support the following statement from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. LCWR Statement on the US-DPRK Crisis This week, while tensions between the governments of the United States and the People’s Republic of Korea quickly escalated, approximately 650 members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious meeting in…
The Solemnity of Corpus Christi As we prepare to celebrate the feast of the Body of Christ, in the spirit of St. Marie of the Incarnation, we go round the world and bring to our prayer our sisters and brothers, the body of Christ, who are suffering persecution, poverty, violence. We remember the homeless, the…
Congratulations to Martha Counihan whose book Jetta’s Story has been published. Jetta Hendel Gordon was a Jewish Yugoslav teenager who fled to Rome after the Nazi takeover of Yugoslavia. In September 1943 Jetta, along with several other Jewish refugees, was hidden at our Generalate. Martha has done extensive research in the Archives at the Generalate…
The Ursuline Sisters of the Eastern Province wish everyone a very blessed Easter! Alleulia, He is Risen!
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…
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…
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…
During this critical post-election time, the USA Roman Union Ursuline Leadership teams invite our sisters and collaborators to commit ourselves to engage in prayer