This week, members of our leadership team attended the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) meeting in Arizona. As part of the 633 leaders of women religious from across the country gathered together, they signed off on a letter to President Trump calling for the end of all divisive rhetoric: Mr. President, We live in […]
Congregation Joins LCWR and the U.S. Federation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Calling for an End to Gun Violence
The Congregation of St. Joseph joins the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) and the U.S. Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph in calling for an end to gun violence. Both LCWR and the U.S. Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph have issued public statements, which we support. Following are excerpts from those statements: The […]
Statement on the Treatment of Children at the US Southern Border
As women of faith, our hearts break at the cruel and inhumane treatment of migrants and refugees – especially children – at our southern border. Children are held by US Border Patrol in jail-like facilities, sometimes for weeks at a time, in deplorable conditions. They are separated from their families and do not have regular […]
Holy Saturday
Saturday, April 20th Scripture Gn 1: 1 — 2: 2 or 1: 1.26-31a Ps 104: 1-2. 5-6. 10. 12. 13-14. 24. 35 or Ps 33: 4-5. 6-7. 12-13. 20-22 Gn 22: 1-18 or 22: 1-2. 9a. 10-13. 15-18 Ps 16: 5. 8. 9-10. 11 Ex 14: 15 — 15: 1 Ex 15: 1-2. 3-4. 5-6. […]
Good Friday
Friday, April 19 Scripture Is 52: 13 — 53: 12 Ps 31: 2. 6. 12-13. 15-16. 17. 25 Heb 4: 14-16; 5: 7-9 Jn 18: 1 — 19: 42 Reflection My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why so far from my call for help, from my cries of anguish? (Ps. 22) Father, […]
Holy Thursday
Thursday, April 18 Scripture Ex 12: 1-8. 11-14 Ps 116: 12-13. 15-16bc. 17-18 1 Cor 11: 23-26 Jn 13: 1-15 Reflection The Lord gave Moses precise instructions about how families and communities were to celebrate the Passover. They were to mark their homes with the blood of a slaughtered lamb, then prepare the menu God […]
Easter Sunday
Sunday, April 21st Scripture Acts 10: 34a. 37-43 Ps 118: 1-2. 16-17. 22-23 1 Cor 5: 6b-8 Jn: 1-9 Reflection “Thank God because he’s good, because his love never quits. Tell the world, Israel, “His love never quits.” Hear the shouts, hear the triumph songs in the camp of the saved. “The hand of God […]
Palm Sunday
Sunday, April 14th Scripture Lk 19: 28-40. Mass: Is 50:4-7 Ps 22:8-9. 17-18. 19-20. 23-24 Phil 2: 6-11 Lk 22: 14 – 23: 56 Reflection “…The Lord God has opened my ear….the Lord God helps me.” Is 50:5, Is 50:7 “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you. . .He took a cup […]
Fifth Sunday of Lent
Sunday, April 7th Scripture Ez 37: 12-14 Ps 130: 1-2. 3-4. 5-6. 7-8 Rom 8: 8-11 Jn 11: 1-45. Reflection I will open your graves and have you rise from them…. Christ is in you…. the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also…. I will put my […]
Fourth Sunday of Lent
Sunday, March 31st Scripture 1 Sm 16: 1b, 6-7, 10-13a Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6(1) Eph 5: 8-14 Jn 9: 1-41 Reflection Surely we are not also blind, are we? Jn. 9:40 [If the shoe fits!] Although our Sunday readings are from Cycle C this liturgical year, today we are asked to reflect on the […]
