November 17, 2016 By Sandra Lincoln, SHCJ On our drive to Divine Mercy Parish in South Philadelphia, Sister Barbara Foy explained to me that the Food Pantry was started when Father Mike Oliveri was the pastor. He had invited Holy Child Sisters Mary Sullivan, Barbara Foy, Nora Sweeney, and Jane Dawley to find a way to […]
November 4, 2016 By Terri MacKenzie, SHCJ Although tree leaves are dropping only in the cool Northern Hemisphere, November is an appropriate month for the whole world to reflect on life and death. The following can be used in any location. For a two-sided pdf, contact terrishcj@aolcom. Each participant needs a leaf — one that […]
October 19, 2016 Sr. Mary Bourdon, RJM – Head of School, Washington School for Girls Washington School for Girls is a co-sponsored ministry of the Society of Holy Child Jesus. Last school year, the Washington School for Girls (WSG) started a soccer program at The VIEW Campus (3rd to 5th Grades) thanks to a partnership […]
October 19, 2016 Rose Martin, RSM, Executive Director, Hope Partnership for Education Hope Partnership for Education is a co-sponsored ministry of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. JAZZ, PERCUSSION AND STRINGS, OH MY! Hope Partnership launched its first jazz, percussion and string ensembles this year. Trumpets, trombones and saxophones bellowed through the halls. Violins […]
October 5, 2016 Carmen M. Chavez, Esq., Executive Director of Casa Cornelia Law Center Casa Cornelia Law Center is a sponsored ministry of the Society of Holy Child Jesus. The story of four young Mexican female cousins (two sets of sisters) began with the tragic and violent loss of their fathers. Their names are Maria, […]
September 26, 2016 By Jeanne Marie Hatch, SHCJ (Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, PA Saturday, September 26, 2015) I was delighted and grateful to learn I was a winner of one of the nine tickets offered to the Society of the Holy Child Jesus to attend the Papal Mass for priests, religious […]
September 23, 2016 Taken from the Summer 2016 issue of the SHCJ Associates Newsletter, American Province. According to Pope Francis, “The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation [September 1] offers to individual believers and to the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of […]
September 21, 2016 David Chiles, Executive Director of Providence Center Providence Center in Philadelphia is a sponsored ministry of the Society of Holy Child Jesus. Providence Center recently held an event to announce our impending move into a new building. We are excited about this move, as the new building is more than five times […]
September 21, 2016 By Judy Talvacchia, SHCJ Associate In his Jubilee audience on June 30, 2016, Pope Francis said, “Mercy without works is dead.” He went on, “To be merciful like God our Father demands constant sensitivity to the needs, material and spiritual, of those around us.” A number of SHCJ Associates are offering service […]
