Dear Sisters and Partners-in-Mission, Greetings to everybody and I wish you all a blessed New Year. Entering 2022, the coronavirus is still active and certainly impacts almost everything we do. 2021 saw us having to face some of the biggest challenges of our lives, and we have been forced to navigate unchartered waters. However, I want to encourage…
Read MoreHelp center for homeless people “Mayak”, in Russia
“Mayak” in Russian means “lighthouse”. I met this organization about two years ago and have been working with them for almost a year now.When you see such involved and dedicated people so spontaneously, you want to be with them. The coronavirus issue is blocking my active presence as a volunteer a bit. I myself have…
Read MoreWhich is the link between the Epiphany and Missionary Children’s Day
Story of Pro Dubbo Onlus Foundation meeting at San Severino Marche – November 2021 Historically, it has been called Missionary Children’s Day, but the Italian Church has renamed it Children’s Missionary Day to emphasize – even more clearly – that to be a missionary you don’t need a special vocation, nor a membership card to…
Read MoreMerry Christmas from Sr. Barbara Staley, MSC General Superior
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas. To all All Sisters, Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Cabrinian Lay Missionaries, our mission co-workers and all of you who are listening today. The Advent season has just ended and now Christmas is upon us. Advent has been a time of waiting, a time of becoming aware that we…
Read MoreMr Wolfington visiting the Generalate in Rome
On Wednesday December 15, Sr. Barbara Staley and the Community of the Generalate in Rome received the visit of a dear friend of us Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Mr. Eustace Wolfington. Mr. Wolfington is a great friend of our Cabrinian family since 1955 and he is in Rome right now because…
Read MoreAdvent is coming – A reflection by Sr. Therese Merandi MSC
Advent is a coming, an awaiting, expectation. It involves emptiness, an openness, eyes, heart and spirit awake! Wanting to be filled, looking for something more and better.It spells H-O-P-E and b-e-y-o-n-d the here and now of all around.In South Sudan, in this fragmented Country of conflict and shattered dreams, having com- pleted a decade of…
Read More“Solidarity with South Sudan”association and MSC Institute
On the occasion of World Human Rights Day, we share this video from Solidarity with South Sudan. Solidarity with South Sudan is a new model of ministry and collaboration between religious, women religious and lay people in service to the poor. Its mission is to develop leaders and build the capacity of people in South…
Read MoreJubilee Year Proclamation at the Shrine in Chicago
His Eminence Blase, Cardinal Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, for the benefit of the souls entrusted to his pastoral care petitioned the Apostolic Penitentiary of His Holiness Pope Francis the Bishop of Rome for the grace and favor of a special Jubilee Year in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Canonization of Saint Frances XavierCabrini,…
Read MoreMother Cabrini, an example of apostolic activity and contemplation
The Feast Day of St. Frances Xavier CabriniPatroness of ImmigrantsNovember 13, 2021 Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, proclaimed a saint in 1946 and Patron Saint of Immigrants in 1950, is best known for her extraordinary apostolic activity in the United States and South America in the service of Italian emigrants to whom she was sent in…
Read MorePope Francis tells COP26 to show ‘political will,’ not defer action on climate change
On October 31st the United Nations climate change summit, COP26, was held in Glasgow, Scotland.The two-week (10/31 – 11/12) has long been billed as a critical checkpoint in the global effort to limit theplanet’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial times – a key threshold to avoid the mostdevastating impacts of climate change.Scientists have…
Read MoreSeeking positive social outcomes through financial investing
For this installment, we’re reintroducing a few key concepts about how the Institute’s investments are managed. Our primary responsibility is to manage investment risk and return to meet the Institute’s current and future financial needs. These include retirement and ministry support, formation, and Generalate operations, among others. We seek to broadly align the Institute’s core…
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