A video traces the most important events in Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s life, starting from his youth and ending with World Youth Day last August. It was made by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The production by Barcelona-based “Tabor Producciones,” directed by Israel Arenas and Xavier Carmona, with drawings by Laura Pontòn and…
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Con Marcella è entrata nella Storia. Romana Maggiora Vergano, che interpreta la figlia di Paola Cortellesi nel bellissimo (e amatissimo) C’e ancora domani , viene premiata oggi per il Tff come giovane rivelazione per il Premio Virna Lisi, che viene invece assegnato a Greta Scarano. Assolutamente condivisibile la motivazione della giuria: «Con una performance di…
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Five years after Columbus Hospital opened in Chicago Mother Cabrini planned an extension specifically designed for poor Italians. It was to be located on the densely packed West Side, close to Little Italy. A suitable property was purchased early in 1911. Opposition to Mother Cabrini’s Plan Chicago street scene, Little Italy The neighbors wanted nothing…
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When Claire learned she’d be part of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade this year, her mom emailed us. Claire had a special request: in between tightly-packed rehearsals and tours, she wanted to visit the Shrine. It’s not every teen who puts visiting Mother Cabrini on her bucket list for what to do in New York City!…
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The Assembly of the Province of St. Frances Cabrini, which brought together sisters and lay people, took place from November 2 to 6 at the Sacred Heart of Jesus House in São Paulo, Brazil. It was a moment of grace, of planning missionary life, of reviewing our journey and seeking new paths. In the light…
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Cabrini University Domestic Violence Symposium Honors Jordan Center Cabrini’s Barbara and John Jordan Center for Children of Trauma and Domestic Violence Education held its 13th Annual Domestic Violence Education Symposium in October on Cabrini’s campus. This year’s symposium honored the leadership of Barbara (HON’08) and John Jordan, the Center’s founders, and Director Colleen Lelli, EdD…
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Intergenerational Fall Fun!We hear so much about intergenerational programs and the wonderful effect it has on both the young andthe elderly.Several of our high school students from Cabrini Immigrant Services (CIS) in Dobbs Ferry, NY, visited some of theresidents at St. Cabrini Nursing Home.The students loved speaking with the residents and helping them create colorful…
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Our General Superior Sister Maria Eliane will participate in the meeting on Synodality that brings Uisg and Usg together for the first time. We pray for these three days of discussion and dialogue for a Church called to hope and commitment to ever greater synodality. This is the program of this meeting: https://www.vaticannews.va/pt/igreja/news/2023-11/uisg-usg-encontro-sinodalidade-profecia-esperanca-barron-sosa.html?fbclid=IwAR1WkxbbOn5XHztPblLAsq1FS0M3QSscUauyOitPiq-IhsjfivooHOdHzhs – Vatican…
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On Saturday, November 4th, Cabrini Immigrant Services of NYC hosted our first legal clinic to assist clients in applying for Temporary Protected Status. In September the Department of Homeland Security announced the extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans for 18 months. This means that eligible Venezuelan nationals who entered the United…
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With great joy, the community of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus celebrated the feast of Mother Cabrini in the Parish of Dzaipi, Uganda. It was a very significant moment for the MSC and the parish community. We had a beautiful presentation about the life of our Foundress where the teenagers performed and…
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Today and tomorrow are two very important holidays for the Institute. The first commemorates the beatification of Mother Cabrini on November 13, 1938 by Pope Pius XI while the Institute was founded on November 14, 1880. If for the Beatification, in 1938, the Sisters of the Community of Rome had been decisive, including above all,…
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A few days from now marks the Foundation of our Institute. Today we celebrate the Feast of All Saints, and we want to remember how our Foundress Saint Cabrini drafted this document in which she put in writing all the Saints of the “Personnel Leading the Institute.” Happy feast day to all! Managerial Personnel The…
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Some shots from the procession and closing Mass of the National Missionary Congress held in San Luis.It was a very nice meeting between youth and elders and we thank Sister Flora for sharing her experience and messages with the youth of the Vicariate of San Luis. There are also some shots of the JVR meeting…
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On the occasion of World Mission Day and in anticipation of 25 years of mission in Ethiopia, which will fall on Jan. 24, we have gathered a little from around the Institute on the most recent mission anniversaries.We Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus celebrate mission every day with “Burning Hearts, Walking Feet.” For…
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Assembly in New Jersey of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Lay Collaborators of the Guadalupe Province. This week, administrators at Cabrini attended the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – Guadalupe Province Assembly in New Jersey. President Sheri Salvagio, Principal Yvonne Hrapmann, and Vice Principal Vivian “Chica” Coutin…
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On Monday, October 9th, Cabrini Immigrant Services (CIS), Dobbs Ferry, NY held a Giving Back Program. Despite being off from school for Indigenous Day, some of our high school students gave up their late sleep to help make packets of toiletries for those in need. We have been working with our asylum seekers who are residing in a neighboring…
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Last week New York City was deluged for days. On Friday some parts of the city had 8 of rainfall. Streets flooded; many subway lines shut down. Needless to say, all our pilgrimage groups either canceled or rescheduled. On Friday as I left I stopped to say good night to Mother Cabrini. “If you want pilgrims, you’ve…
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For this month’s Mother Cabrini Story we offer you the following article reprinted from The Sun , dated June 30, 1889. This interview with Mother Cabrini took place almost exactly three months from the day she and six of her Missionary Sisters arrived in New York City. A scan of the original newspaper is in the Library of Congress. Jacob Riis’ book How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York documented life in the slums in the 1880s….
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Nel 1892, anno che segnava il quattrocentesimo anniversario del viaggio di Cristoforo Colombo, aprì formalmente i suoi battenti il Columbus Hospital. Istituito dalle Missionarie del Sacro Cuore di Gesù per rispondere ai bisogni della crescente comunità di immigrati italiani a New York. Tra i fondatori spiccava la figura di Madre Francesca Saverio Cabrini, oggi santa, e tra i primi medici, quella di George Frederick Shrady Sr….
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The Resident Council at St. Cabrini Nursing Home, wanted to reach out to the children from Cabrini Immigrant Services (CIS), Dobbs Ferry, NY. They held a Mission in Action fundraiser. They invited the residents, family, friends and staff to donate cereal during the month of August. They also added that they wanted ‘sweet cereal’ for…
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What exactly is asylum? Who is eligible? What is the legal process and how long does it take? Are asylum-seekers legal immigrants or are they here without permission? What are their rights and responsibilities? As New York City grapples with the demands of an increase in immigrants bused-in from the border, we need to have…
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On September 28, the leaders of the Turin School no longer belonging to the MSCs, asked asked to be allowed to celebrate a Holy Mass for Sr. Giovanna Auguadro, who died last August 15.Sr. Giovanna was the last School leader still ours and left a great example of kindness and cooperation to the new leaders….
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On September 18, we celebrated with great joy and hope, in the Province of St. Frances Cabrini, in the north-east of Brazil, the entry into the Aspirancy of two young women who are seeking to respond to Jesus’ call in the Cabrinian charism. They are Joana Vital and Francisca Brito. May Mother Cabrini intercede at…
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PALMA DI MONTECHIARO Come ha invocato l’arcivescovo di Catania Luigi Renna sul caso migranti «non giriamo la testa d’altra parte». Una invocazione questa che per diversi anni è stata rispettata da una associazione di missionari laici che venerano santa Francesca Cabrini. La donna cioè che, in missione nelle Americhe, con il suo amore per le…
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Creatività, bellezza e solidarietà protagoniste dell’evento organizzato sulla spiaggia del litorale laziale. Il 23 settembre al Centro estivo don Bosco. di Redazione Una sfilata di moda “missionaria”, il dialogo con la scrittrice Linda Pocher, degustazioni etniche e artigianato solidale. E’ stato un pomeriggio indimenticabile quello organizzato sabato 23 settembre a Ladispoli (Roma) dall’associazione Terra e…
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(AGENPARL) – ven 15 settembre 2023 L’Università Statale di Milano affronta il tema della salute globale in un convegno interdisciplinare: saranno presentati l’innovativo progetto in eSwatini per una modalità di screening meno invasiva per HPV e cancro della cervice uterina, il progetto didattico “Global Health Essentials” che raccoglie i contributi sul tema di 150 autori…
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125 years ago, on 29th September 1898, Mother Cabrini established the first MSC house in France. It was a short walk from the Arc de Triomphe at 20, Rue Dumont d’Urville, Paris. It was not possible to establish a school in France due to anti-clerical legislation, so Mother Cabrini opened a residence for ladies to…
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Morocco is facing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe as an earthquake recently struck the country, leaving almost 3,000 people dead and more than 5,000 injured. In response to this dramatic situation, the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus have mobilized with prayers and a small concrete gesture of solidarity to offer assistance and the necessary…
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Pope Francis invites faithful of all Christian denominations to Rome for an Ecumenical Prayer Vigil for the Synod. In the aftermath of the Angelus on Sunday, Jan. 15, and on the eve of the celebration of the traditional Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis recalled how “the journey toward Christian unity and the…
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It seems like only yesterday that we ended the school year and we are already facing a new year full of challenges. In early September our sisters, teachers and non-teaching staff worked hard to get the school ready to welcome those little ones who arrive with their backpacks loaded not only with new books and…
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The Cabrinian Missionary Childhood of the Regina Coeli School is a movement that emerged more than 25 years ago, inspired by the words of Pope John Paul II when he called children “little great missionaries” and also by the movement of the Pontifical Missionary Work, IAM (Missionary Childhood).The IMC (Cabrinian Missionary Childhood) is made up…
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This year the Holy Father, Pope Francis, challenges us with the motto of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees “Free to choose whether to migrate or stay“, because in the streets, narrow and wide, of Guatemala City we see more and more migrant brothers and sisters from different continents, and especially Venezuelan brothers and…
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At Mass to honor immigrants, archbishop challenges leaders on immigration reform NATIONAL By Angelus staff LOS ANGELES (OSV News) – Grim developments on the southern U.S. border and the “frustrating” lack of immigration reform were on the minds of some 1,500 Southern California Catholics at the annual Mass in Recognition of All Immigrants Sept. 17…
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LA NUOVA PERIFERIA MERCOLEDÌ 13 SETTEMBRE 2023 «Erano arrivate da terre lontane», presentato il libro SAN RAFFAELE SAN RAFFAELE (bos) Oltre 100 persone erano presenti venerdì pomeriggio alla presentazione del libro di Carlo Bosco «Erano arrivate da terre lontane», in ricordo dei 94 anni delle Suore Missionarie del sacro Cuore di Gesù a San Raffaele….
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Together with Mother Cabrini to turn the world upside down The resumption of activities for the mission in Palma di Montechiaro by Antonietta Scopelliti CLM, Chairwoman of the Santa Francesca Cabrini Association, was like a “breath of fresh air”. Because of her great responsibility, she did not give up. Instead, she faced all the challenges…
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Expanding Horizons “Why do you need to add to this building?” Monsignor Serrati asked, “You have enough room for what you have!” In the scant six years since Mother Cabrini founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the order had grown from seven Sisters to well over a hundred. In addition to…
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This afternoon at 5:30 pm at Residenza San Raffaele in San Raffaele Cimena there will be a presentation of the book “Erano arrivate da terre lontane” followed by an aperitif.To learn a little about the history of the former convent in San Raffaele Cimena read here: For almost a century, the Congregation of the Missionary…
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Saturday, September 9, 2023 5 p.m. Celebration of the 140th anniversary of the founding of Grumello House. The exhibition will be there from September 9 to 16. There will be a mass and concert this afternoon at the parish of St. Bartholomew the Apostle in Grumello Cremonese in honor of St. Frances Cabrini. Pictured is…
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On Sept. 2, 2023, the European Cabrinian formation meeting was held in Codogno at the multimedia room of the RSA and the Mother Cabrini Spirituality Center in Codogno, which was attended by more than 100 sisters and lay people from various missions of the Mater Gratiae Province: Italy, Spain, Russia. 98 lay people and 16…
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In October of 1895, Mother Cabrini and a companion, Mother Chiara, set forth from Panama to go to Buenos Aires. Their sea journey took them to Ecuador, many ports in Peru, and Chile. Upon arrival in Los Andes, Chile, they had a choice: either to continue around the south of the continent, or to cross the cordillera by mule to…
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“Nella Sala Stampa di Montecitorio, ho promosso l’incontro dal titolo “Santa Francesca Saverio Cabrini e le donne italiane a Chicago” , a partire dalla lettura del libro curato dal professor Dominic Candeloro, Kathy Catrambone, Gloria Nardini e tradotto in italiano dalla professoressa D’Alfonso , intervenuta in presenza alla Camera insieme a Candeloro, con altre curatrici del libro collegate dalla…
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Un Master online in Global Health, Salute Globale, unico in Italia e tra i pochissimi nel mondo. Un piccolo gioiello italiano all’Università di Milano (UniMi) organizzato dal MACH, Centre for Multidisciplinary Research in Health Science che, ormai al quarto anno e con 50 studenti d i tante nazionalità già avviati nel mondo del lavoro, riapre…
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