The Cabrini Mission Foundation responds with boldness and urgency to the unmet needs of the most vulnerable, especially when there are those in need in our own community. During the summer season, our team worked with Cabrini Immigrant Services’ NYC Food Pantry, and has been dedicated to supporting and feeding more than 200 families each…
Read MoreSANTA CABRINI YOUTH CENTRE STRENGTHENING THE PROTECTION NETWORK
In the Brazilian calendar, May 18th is the national day for combating sexual abuse and exploitation of children and adolescents and the Santa Cabrini Youth Center holds several activities with families and the community in general in commemoration of the date. This year, we had the recognition of the municipal government for the relevant work…
Read MoreCabrini Mission Foundation – Educating with the heart
“Education with a Heart” Cabrini Mission Foundation recently purchased twenty-five (25) chrome books, now allowing current students in need to continue their online classes and virtual schooling during the current pandemic. Mother Cabrini based her work on “education of the heart”; promoting Gospel values, critical thinking and openness towards others. Through this initiative and all…
Read MoreLove and Resilience – Sister Alfonsina in her pastoral ministry on Ash Wednesday
Yesterday was Ash Wednesday and we started our Lent Journey. Many Sisters around Cabrini World served through their pastoral ministries in the parishes and in our sponsored ministries. In the photo above, Sister Alfonsina Gomes, MSC, is in her pastoral ministry on Ash Wednesday at St. Cabrini Nursing Home, Dobbs Ferry, NY (USA). She’s imposing…
Read MoreLove & Resilience from Uganda – Sr. Glória and Sr. Albertina
“My dear daughters, let your school be not only a school of literature, of science, of mathematics, of history, but of good morals, of solid Christian morality. By acting in this way you will be doing a great service, not only to religion, but to your country”.(Letter written by Mother Cabrini to the students of…
Read MoreLove & Resilience – Cabrini Immigrant Services, Dobbs Ferry, NY
Cabrini Immigrant Services (CIS), Dobbs Ferry, NY has remained in close contact with its clients throughout this challenging time of pandemic. Many of them lost their jobs, and others were forced to stop working to care for their out of school children. Through generous grants and donors, and through community resources, Cabrini Immigrant Services has…
Read MoreLove & Resilience story from Uganda
Joint effort Saint Mary Magdalen Community in Uganda is risen! This was the verbal expression of the Community Coordinator after receiving the news of the financial support to complete the construction of the Chapel. Among the six communities in the Pagrinya Settlement, this is the poorest and the only one that did not have a…
Read MoreSeeds of Hope, small opportunities of “Love & Resilience” from Paraguay
During this Advent share with you some small seeds of hope, small opportunities to love of neighbour, in line with our “Love and resilience” series. Enjoy your reading! It is our concrete action on the occasion of the Feast of Mother Cabrini and the World Day of the Poor. To help Juan, a man who…
Read MoreLove and Resilience: Stories from Mother Cabrini Shrine
The heart of our mission is prayer and hospitality. Our daily routine of morning Mass, retreats, praying and lighting candles at the grotto, drinking water from the spring, walking the steps and interacting with our visitors came to a screeching halt with the Coronavirus restrictions. Mother Cabrini Shrine is open 365 days a year and…
Read MoreLove and Resilience – My family life during the Coronavirus
“Today I would like to remember the families who can’t leave home. Maybe the only horizon they have is the balcony. And in there, the family, with the children, the kids, the parents… so that they can find a way to communicate well with each other, to build relationships of love in the family, and…
Read MoreLove and Resilience – A reflection from Maria Bracco
“And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led in the Spirit in the wildernessduring forty days, being tempted of the devil.” [Lk 4,1-3] In this Lent we are forced to stay in the desert and isolation. In the desert of our streets, our squares, our lives. Isolated from everything…
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