Beloved by all on campus, on Thursday, September 8th, faculty, staff and administrators turned out to wish Sr. Grace Waters, MSC a fond farewell as she leaves for her new mission at Sacred Heart Convent in New York. Sr. Christine Marie Baltas, MSC, hosted a reception for Sr. Grace in the University’s Wolfington Center. Interim…
Read MoreCelebration of the Feast of the Holy Cross at the Adiariana Shrine in Uganda
Preparations for the feast began six months ago when the organizing team went to work in all parishes to raise 26,000,000 for the expenses of the feast. Yesterday, September 14, our sisters’ community in Uganda participated in a wonderful celebration of the Feast of the Holy Cross. Indeed, the ceremony in the Shrine of the…
Read MoreCanonization of Blessed John Baptist Scalabrini
Domenica mattina – 9 ottobre – sarà allestito in Piazza San Pietro un punto di ritrovo per ritirare lo zainetto e il biglietto: presso la libreria Ancora – Via della Conciliazione 63 – all’ingresso della piazza, sulla sinistra guardando la basilica. Nella stessa libreria saranno disponibili libri, immagini, quadri e altri oggetti riguardanti Scalabrini. EVENTI…
Read MoreThe story of St. Martin’s Day, celebrated on August 17 in Latin America
José Francisco de San Martín Matorras, known to all as San Martín, one of the most important figures in Argentine and Latin American history, died on August 17, 1850. His actions during the first third of the 19th century in the struggles for independence in South America made his name a worldwide reference in the…
Read MoreCreative Gratitude in Australia
A recent client of Cabrini’s Women’s Mental Health Service at Cabrini Australia, an artist and owner of her own business (Clover & Co), drew upon her experience from her admission to design a new fabric. She states that art therapy has always been a massive part of her healing, and whatever she creates comes from…
Read More“Revives” Mother Cabrini’s school in Borghetto, Italy
Sixteen panels that through some 70 photographs, documents and drawings trace the history of the school of the “Missionary Sisters of Mother Cabrini,” now a parish kindergarten. The exhibition “1886/2021 History of a School” set up in the pavilion in the square and dedicated to the institution founded in the Borghetto Lodigiano, Italy, in 1886…
Read MoreMother Cabrini and the anniversary of the Exaltation of the Cross – Sept. 14
Oggi si celebra l’Esaltazione della Santa Croce. In essa si commemora la crocifissione di Gesù con il particolare obiettivo di sottolineare la centralità del mistero della croce nella teologia cristiana. Pensate che Santa Francesca Cabrini prende i voti a ventisette anni il 14 settembre 1877. Dice Madre Cabrini nel Volume 2 dell’Epistolario, Lettera n. 619:…
Read MoreA stained glass window at Madre Cabrini School in São Paulo
The reception of the Madre Cabrini School in São Paulo received today a true work of art. In the stained glass window, Mother Cabrini educator together with children representing not only our students, but all those who are somehow touched by the Cabrinian mission and guided by the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Gratitude to Sr….
Read MorePope Francis August 26th General Audience for the pilgrimage of the Diocese of Lodi
On August 26, Sister Gilda Mendoza, Sister Assunta Scopelliti and Sister Carmen Graciela Pantano participated, together with other representatives of the ecclesial and civil community of the Diocese of Lodi, in the Holy Father’s General Audience in the Clementine Hall. This is the text in Italian of the Holy Father’s address. El 26 de agosto,…
Read MorePatroness of Emigrants St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, known more simply as “Mother Cabrini,” was proclaimed Heavenly Patroness of Emigrants by Pope Pius XII on Sept. 8, 1950, for her extraordinary apostolic activity on behalf of Italian Emigrants with the Apostolic Brief “Superiore iam aetate” on Sept. 8, 1950. This is the text in Latin https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/la/briefs/documents/hf_p-xii_apl_19500907_superiore-iam-aetate.html Two years later,…
Read MoreSr. Tatiana at XXVIth Renovabis International Congress
In the past few days, our Sister Tatiana Avdokushina, MSC participated in the XXVIth Renovabis International Congress, which this year is held under the theme “Leaving for a Better Life? The challenge of just labor migration.”The meeting was held from August 31 to September 1, 2022 at the University of Philosophy in Munich. Renovabis is…
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