On Saturday, July 15 the Shrine will celebrate Mother Cabrini’s 173rd birthday. This is always a great event that is filled with joy. Bring your family, friends, your hopes and prayers, and join us for the festivities! Highlights of the day include: Mass at 11am with Bishop Gerald Walsh (in English) A Mariachi serenade for…
Read MoreFree yourselves and put on wings – Communications Portfolio
“Free yourselves and put on your wings” Mother Cabrini said to her sisters, inviting them to free themselves from the ties, fears and sense of inferiority that characterized the women of that era. In the word “free yourselves”, to quote Sr. Maria Barbagallo, is enclosed the purification of the will and of human hopes, indicating…
Read MoreCabrini Ministries Eswatini: Intelligent Love in the Rural South of Eswatini
The way we love: How Our Charism and our Values Shape Our Ministries About Cabrini Ministries Eswatini Cabrini Ministries is a faith based community care organization serving the Lubombo Lowveld with a mission to share the love of Jesus Christ by promoting the well-being of individuals and families through comprehensive integrated health care, education and…
Read MoreEmbodying Catholic Social Teaching through Shared Ownership Investing
By Felipe Witchger & Elizabeth Garlow Over several weeks this Spring, 20 U.S. Catholic asset holders gathered on six different occasions to wrestle with the rarely-posed question: What would bold action in impact investing look like, if we use Catholic Social Teaching as our starting point? The cohort included Kayoko Lyons, Director of Impact Investing for…
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In his 2015 encyclical letter ‘Laudato Si’, Pope Francis called on the global community to live out a commitment in response to the ‘cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’. Recent global crises, such as the current Covid-19 pandemic, have further demonstrated that there is an urgent need for action around environmental and social…
Read MoreCabrini Ministries Ethiopia: Our Love in Action
Our Love In Action: Cabrini Ministries Ethiopia Community Outreach and Centre of Life Rehabilitation It is impossible to forget the gaze of a child who is hungry, or the desperation of a mother trying to secure her child’s next meal. The need for food sustainability is primal, yet the ability to do so depends on…
Read MoreCabrini Guatemala: Our Ongoing Commitment to Combat Malnutrition in Underserved Communities
An Historical Perspective: Our Work in Context The Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart (MSCs) currently in Guatemala are managing two healthcare facilities. The ‘St. Joseph Dispensary’ (DSJ) was set up in 1975 in Zone 6 of the capital city, while the ‘Mother Cabrini Dispensary’ in the village of Bárcena, 45 minutes from the capital,…
Read MoreCabrini Guatemala: Nourishing Lives for Christ in Barcenas
The Cabrini mission in Guatemala focuses on the most vulnerable population through the San Jose Dispensary in Zone 6 of the capital city, and the Mother Cabrini Dispensary in Barcena Villa Nueva. The service provided by Cabrini Guatemala in Barcena focuses on curative and preventive medical care and the integral development of the individual, the…
Read MoreEducating the Heart through Learning to Love the Heart of Jesus
YOU CAN READ THE ARTICLE IN SPANISH, ITALIAN AND PORTUGUESE BELOW ~ written by Sister Flora, MSC The Source that Nourished Mother CabriniJuly is the month which reminds me so many things: the winter holidays of my childhood, the public holiday of my country, the patronal saint holiday at my parish in El Carmen, the…
Read MoreEducation of the Heart: Discovering who we really are and all that God has already done in us
Integral Development of the Person Mother Cabrini wrote to the students of the Magisterium Institute: If every child who has been entrusted to us in our schools… if we not only instruct his mind, but educate his heart… My good daughters, make not only a school of literature, science, mathematics, history, but also a school…
Read MoreIn God’s Love School
A Reflection from Educators of the Heart at Istituto Cabrini in Rome What is Education of the Heart?“Educating of the Heart” is the founding principle of Mother Cabrini’s educational method. The Saint’s pedagogical intuition is based on the use of persuasion as a means of influencing people and catalyzing profound changes. This educational work is…
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