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Obituary: Sister Agnes Cecilia Kenna, C.S.J.
Sister Agnes Cecilia Sister Agnes Cecilia Kenna, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 77 years, died in Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood, on Nov. 14, 2015. She entered the...
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Obituary: Sister Muriel Smithwick, C.S.J.
Sister Muriel Sister Muriel Smithwick, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 72 years, died in Maria Regina Residence, Brentwood, Jan. 14. She entered the congregation in 1944 from Our...
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Obituary: Sister Agnes Muriel Freligh, C.S.J.
Sister Agnes Muriel Sister Agnes Muriel Freligh, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 70 years, died in Maria Regina Residence in Brentwood, on Jan. 30. She entered the congregation in...
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Obituary: Sister Anne Behre, C.S.J.
Sister Anne Sister Anne Behre, C.S.J., a Sister of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 74 years, died in Maria Regina Residence, Brentwood, on Jan. 13. A graduate of Fontbonne Hall Academy, Bay Ridge, she...
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TMLA Students Honor Past Sisters of St. Joseph
(Photo courtesy The Mary Louis Academy) By Alexa Roberto and Isabella Spallino As current seniors at The Mary Louis Academy (TMLA) in Jamaica Estates, we have had the opportunity to meet and interact...
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Tablet TALK: Stations and Fish Fry Prepare for Holy Week
In preparation for Holy Week, seventh and eighth graders from St. Pancras School, Glendale, above, presented the Stations of the Cross in church on Friday evening, March 18, following a parish fish...
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New Leadership Team in Brentwood
The Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., elected its new Leadership Team that will guide the congregation for the next five years. The Sisters elected are, from left, Sister Joan Gallagher,...
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Sisters’ Nite on SJU Campus
As an ongoing response to the Year of Consecrated Life, St. John’s University’s Campus Ministry and the Vincentian Vocation Office commemorated the World Day of Prayer for Vocations by hosting the...
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Sister Jubilarians
Religious sisters and brothers marking significant anniversaries in religious life were honored at a Jubilee Mass by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston, May 22....
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Obituary: Sister Alice Francis Young, C.S.J.
Sister Alice Francis Sister Alice Francis Young, C.S.J., 101, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., for 84 years, died July 6 in St. Joseph College Convent in...
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Kathleen Slattery Woman of the Year Award 2016
Sister Teresa (Tesa) Fitzgerald, C.S.J., executive director of Hour Children, is receiving the Kathleen Slattery Woman of the Year Award. Sister Tesa The daughter of Irish immigrants who worked on a...
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Astoria Parish Celebrates 175 Years
Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Astoria held its 175th anniversary dinner/dance at Riccardo’s by the Bridge on Oct. 8 with close to 200 parishioners in attendance. Among the clergy in attendance, from...
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Final Vows for Newest Brentwood Sister of St. Joseph
Sister Mary Preenika Dabrera, C.S.J., a graduate of St. Joseph’s College in Clinton Hill, professed her final vows of chastity, poverty and obedience with the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph,...
View ArticleWomen, Faith and Finance Conference Jan. 18
In 2017, Maria Regina Residence, a fully accredited and licensed residential health care facility located on the campus of the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Joseph, Brentwood, L.I., will be...
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Handel’s ‘Messiah’ in Long Island City
More than 250 people enjoyed hearing The Long Island Choral Society, directed by Meredith E. Baker, present Handel’s “Messiah,” the Christmas portion, and “Hallelujah Chorus” at St. Mary’s Church,...
View ArticleBrentwood Josephites Pray At Climate Control Service
People of diverse faiths gathered on Sunday, Jan. 22 at Sacred Heart Chapel, on the grounds of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Brentwood, L.I., to pray for the U.S. government to accelerate its response...
View ArticleReady, Set, Sprint!
by Sister Karen Cavanagh, C.S.J. “WHETHER WE GAZE with longing into the garden or with fear and trembling into the desert, of this we can be sure – God walked there first!” – James Healy With new...
View ArticleEmbracing Our Discipleship
by Sister Karen Cavanagh, C.S.J. “WHOEVER DRINKS the water I give will never thirst … will have a spring of water deep inside (John 4) … If today you hear God’s voice, harden not your hearts.” (Psalm...
View ArticleSisters Are As Relevant As They’ve Ever Been
by Rita Piro CSJ, RSM, OP, SC, OSB, SND, OSF, DW, CSFN and more…Whatever the post-nominal letters that follow their names, they all signify the same thing: a Catholic sister ministering to the people...
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Sister Jubilarians 2017
Sisters of St. Joseph celebrating their 70th anniversaries, right, with Bishop DiMarzio: Sister Margaret Theresa Maloney, at left, and Sister Mary Florence Burns, right. • • • (click to enlarge photos)...
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