Society Marks 179th Anniversary

Feasts of St Edward and St Teresa, October 2025 October 13 and 15 are very important dates to the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. Our founder Cornelia Connelly and three other women, who became Sisters of the Holy Child, had left for Derby, England on October 13, the feast of St. Edward, exactly six […]

Feast of St David: Celebrating the Founding of Newtown

1 March, 2025 Every item that preserves something of the SHCJ’s history is important in its own way, but an especially fascinating and informative donation was made in February last year by Sr Maureen Grigg (name in religion Mary Petroc). The item in question was photograph album which tells the story of the SHCJ’s teaching […]

The Might of Pen and Needle over Sword

20 December, 2024 From the European Province Archives 2024 has seen a number of important events and celebrations at Apley Grange, but perhaps the most significant and joyful of all was Sister Oona Mohan’s jubilee celebration of 80 years as a professed of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. As far as the records […]

Advent Reflections 2024

Fourth Sunday of Advent He shall stand firm and shepherd his flock by the strength of the LORD, the majestic name of the LORD, his God; and they shall remain, for now his greatness shall reach to the ends of the earth; he shall be peace.                                           Micah 5:1   I used to think farming […]