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Profesión definitiva de Viviana Villalba
BRASIL – Profesión definitiva de Viviana Villalba Con el lema: “Celebro el encuentro con Aquel que me ha dicho todo sobre mí”, Viviana Villalba Hermana de San José de Cúneo en Argentina nos invitó el 16 de marzo a su Profesión Perpetua. Junto a sus Hermanas de Congregación, y de otros San José, con la gente del pueblo de Bosques, en e…ler noticia completa
Estamos em Missão…
AMÉRICA LATINA – Las Hermanas que pertenecemos a la Red de Hermanas de San José estamos en estos países Congregaciones de San José en América Latina e islas del Caribe… ler texto completo
Historic Leadership Circle Installation
CANADA – On the feast of St. Joseph, Tuesday, March 19th, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Canada officially installed the first Leadership Circle of the new Congregation. The ceremony, held at St. Peter-In-Chains Cathedral, Peterborough, ON, was attended by Sisters from the four founding Congregations, Associates and Companions, clergy (including bishops) and many friends and supporters. Read more….
Springs of Hope
PEMBROKE – The latest issue of Springs of Hope, the Fontbonne Ministries newsletter, is available. Topics in this issue include:
- Following the example of the Sisters
- Companionship and Presence
- Bringing People Together
- A Sense of Being Welcome
- Listening and Caring
- A Nurturing Place
- Friendship and Foot Care
- We are grateful for your generosity
Chinese Sisters renew their Consecration
CHINA – On the feast day of Saint Joseph the Worker, May 1, 2013, two young Chinese Sisters renewed their vows of chastity, poverty and obedience before our Superior General, Sister Sally Marie Hodgdon in the chapel of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chambéry in Rome. Sister Sally received this renewal of first vows as a delegate for the Sisters’ Superior General, Sister Li Lianmei, who could not be in attendance from China. Read more….
Sisters in Solidarity
BOSTON – Who could have imagined the events of this past week. Who would want to imagine them. This week’s Soundings Update begins with an article about this tragedy that tells a bit of our Boston CSJ personal connections with the Marathon tragedy. Read more….
S. Joan Gallagher honored by St. Francis College
BRENTWOOD – S Joan lives as a member of the core community of Providence House II providing hospitality to women and children in need of transitional housing. It is through the day to day living in this community that continues to teach S. Joan the realities of life and that works of charity and justice go hand in hand. Read more….
Join us in Prayer for the General Chapter 2013
AUSTRALIA – The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart are preparing for General Chapter to be held in November this year. The General Chapter is held once every 6 years and discerns the direction for the Congregation for the following 6 years. See video…
Sr. Laura Bufano attends UISG Meeting
ROME – S. Laura Bufano of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet was among the Sisters of St. Joseph and all other participants at the International Union of Superiors General meeting held in Rome at the beginning of May. They had a private audience with Pope Francis on Wednesday morning, May 8. Read more… and here….
Sister Receives Honorary Degree
ST. LOUIS – Sister Barbara Moore, CSJ, was the commencement speaker May 11 at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. She was given an honorary doctor of humane letters degree. Read more….
The Sisters of St Joseph have brought all their overseas mission work under the one roof in Australia following the opening and blessing of the Mary MacKillop International office at Clyde on 4 April. Mary MacKillop International incorporates the mission work of the Sisters in East Timor and Peru. 
AUSTRALIA – NEW ZEALAND – There was great joy in Goulburn on the 19th March as parishioners from Goulburn and many rural parishes, 25 priests, 3 Bishops and many Sisters of St Joseph from across Australia and New Zealand arrived in Our Lady of Fatima Church to celebrate Eucharist and the ritual of fusion or merging of the Sisters of St Joseph Goulburn and the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Around the world many other Sisters watched the Mass and ritual streamed live to their computers. 
ORANGE, CA – The Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange recently celebrated the centenary of their founding in California. They used this occasion to write a book describing their 100 year journey through the eyes of their Sisters, both living and deceased. 
Encontro na França
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Sr. Laura Professes Final Vows
RSJ to lead Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand
NEW YORK — Sister Lynn Caton made her final profession as a Sister of St. Joseph of Brentwood Sept. 8, but her journey toward that day has been an interesting one. Before she realized her call to religious life, Sister Lynn was married and had a son. “I’m absolutely called to be a mother,” she said. “And I’m absolutely called to be a Sister of St. Joseph, and it’s beyond my imagination that I have both.” 
20-year journey to Slovak Republic
NEW ORLEANS, LA – 
Sisters Felicita Sanchez and Agripina Morales, novices in the Peru Vice Province, have now begun their studies at the Marcelino Champagnat University in Lima. They are enthusiastic about their studies and are learning to balance their responsibilities both to their classes and to the community. Both of these women have asked to make their first vows in the congregation and will celebrate this happy occasion on May 1. Sister Zaida Perez is directing them. 
SPRINGFIELD, MA – Sister of St. Joseph Lorry Villemaire will present a labyrinth workshop titled “Call to Universal Wholeness” Saturday, June 2nd from 9:00 – 2:00 at the Mont Marie Senior Residence in Holyoke. Children and adults walk the portable labyrinth at Mont Marie in this file photo.The program, sponsored by the Labyrinth Connection of Western Massachusetts in collaboration with the YMCA of Greater Westfield, will feature a day of relaxation, retreat and rejuvenation. 
FLORIDA – S. Diane Couture paiting face of Jesus on glass.Sister Diane Couture believes that “Art is Essential to Life” and recognizes the need to integrate spirituality and the arts. Sister is the Executive Director of the St. Joseph Ministries’ Stained Glass Studio in St. Augustine. She designs, paints, fabricates and restores stained glass for communities of worship, 
Partida de uma missionária
Griselda Martinez Morales along with a team of Sisters proposed to form a group that create channels to enable the Latin American realities to be present at the United Nations. The core team for this group would consist of the following Congregations: Congregation of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd (RGS), Sisters of the Providence –UNANIMA; International Presentation Association (IPA); Congregations of Saint Joseph (CSSJ). 
Albany, NY – Sister Anne Bryan Smollin, CSJ, has been named the recipient of the 2012 Bishop Edwin B. Broderick Award from the Albany Diocesan Office of Evangelization, Catechesis and Family Life. The awarded will be given during the opening keynote and prayer service (May 14, 2012, 9:30 a.m.) for the 39th Spring Enrichment Program. 
Celebrating Women of Justice, Harmony and Peace
New Orleans – Alison McCrary graduated from Loyola Law School in May and is in formation to become a nun in the Congregation of St. Joseph. She lives with a group of sisters in a house near Bayou St. John, and every night at 6.p. m. they sit down to eat together and share after-dinner prayers. 
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