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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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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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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Have you been to Mother Cabrini Shrine lately? Come and celebrate Cabrini Day with us! On Monday, October 2nd, we will have a special Cabrini Day Mass at 12 noon in our newly renovated chapel. This is a great opportunity to attend Mass, walk the steps, visit our gift shop, light a candle in the…
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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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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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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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Frances Cabrini nació en el norte de Italia el 15 de julio de 1850. Nació dos meses prematura, pero eso no impediría que esta gigante espiritual, que no llegaba al metro y medio de estatura, llevara a Cristo a tanta gente como pudiera. María Francisca Cabrini era la menor de trece hermanos en una familia Frances Cabrini nació en el norte de Italia…
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“Didn’t I write and tell you that I am alive miraculously?” begins a 1904 letter from Mother Cabrini. She’d been traveling by train from the orphanage in Denver to the orphanage in New Orleans. Just after passing Dallas “the enemies of the railroad” attacked. Bullets peppered the train. Mother Cabrini reported that one bullet “aimed…
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by Elena Bulzi Gold, blue, red. These are the chromatic notes that dominate the mosaic of the Assumption of Mary created by Aligi Sassu in 1964, in the apse basin of the Lodi Cathedral. The red, for example, is not a purple, the expensive color of the upper classes, a sign of power, but it…
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