A recent client of Cabrini’s Women’s Mental Health Service at Cabrini Australia, an artist and owner of her own business (Clover & Co), drew upon her experience from her admission to design a new fabric. She states that art therapy has always been a massive part of her healing, and whatever she creates comes from…
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Sixteen panels that through some 70 photographs, documents and drawings trace the history of the school of the “Missionary Sisters of Mother Cabrini,” now a parish kindergarten. The exhibition “1886/2021 History of a School” set up in the pavilion in the square and dedicated to the institution founded in the Borghetto Lodigiano, Italy, in 1886…
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Oggi si celebra l’Esaltazione della Santa Croce. In essa si commemora la crocifissione di Gesù con il particolare obiettivo di sottolineare la centralità del mistero della croce nella teologia cristiana. Pensate che Santa Francesca Cabrini prende i voti a ventisette anni il 14 settembre 1877. Dice Madre Cabrini nel Volume 2 dell’Epistolario, Lettera n. 619:…
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The reception of the Madre Cabrini School in São Paulo received today a true work of art. In the stained glass window, Mother Cabrini educator together with children representing not only our students, but all those who are somehow touched by the Cabrinian mission and guided by the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Gratitude to Sr….
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On August 26, Sister Gilda Mendoza, Sister Assunta Scopelliti and Sister Carmen Graciela Pantano participated, together with other representatives of the ecclesial and civil community of the Diocese of Lodi, in the Holy Father’s General Audience in the Clementine Hall. This is the text in Italian of the Holy Father’s address. El 26 de agosto,…
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St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, known more simply as “Mother Cabrini,” was proclaimed Heavenly Patroness of Emigrants by Pope Pius XII on Sept. 8, 1950, for her extraordinary apostolic activity on behalf of Italian Emigrants with the Apostolic Brief “Superiore iam aetate” on Sept. 8, 1950. This is the text in Latin https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/la/briefs/documents/hf_p-xii_apl_19500907_superiore-iam-aetate.html Two years later,…
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In the past few days, our Sister Tatiana Avdokushina, MSC participated in the XXVIth Renovabis International Congress, which this year is held under the theme “Leaving for a Better Life? The challenge of just labor migration.”The meeting was held from August 31 to September 1, 2022 at the University of Philosophy in Munich. Renovabis is…
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Hundreds of immigrant families have been bused to New York City from the southern border in recent weeks. They have been placed in all-purpose City shelters, and the influx has strained City resources. To respond to the needs of our newest neighbors, five Cabrini institutions — The Cabrini Mission Foundation, St. Frances Cabrini Shrine, Cabrini…
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“Rabbi…where do you live?. Come and see, Jesus replied; so they went and saw where He lived, and stayed with Him the rest of that day.” (John 1:39). On August 22nd 2022, encouraged by the Holy Spirit and the prayers and support of our Sisters, we commenced a ‘Come and See’ Program in Addis Ababa,…
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This is a little story about our Brazilian catering manager Patricia Campanella and her interaction with a Portuguese patient last week. Patricia always says she tries to walk in Mother Cabrini’s shoes but we believe that Mother Cabrini walks in Patricia‘s shoes and imbues her love in Patricia in all she brings to Cabrini. We…
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Why not? Why not stay in religious life! I have been nurtured, grown, and benefited from it and come to know intimately our Lord Jesus Christ in these 57 years since I entered the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Cabrinian charism of being “bearers of the love of Christ in the…
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