by SCNY Communications | Jan 8, 2024 | Laudato Si’, Uncategorized
“Let us choose life; let us choose the future.” Pope Francis’ plea to decision makers and participants at COP28 and to all of us has been resonating in my heart. Click here to read his address. “Let us choose life; let us choose the future.” has become a chant I...
by SCNY Communications | Nov 30, 2023 | home, Laudato Si’, social justice, Uncategorized
SCNY’s Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation host Parish Leaders from Metro New York Catholic Climate Movement Another meeting – and an all-day meeting at that! But, how could I say no when it meant gathering with a group of committed lay parish...
by SCNY Communications | Aug 1, 2023 | home, racial justice, social justice
LCWR’s call to women religious to address systemic racism and our complicity in it ignited the Sisters of Charity of New York to focus intentionally on raising awareness, educating and acting to change racist attitudes and behaviors in ourselves, personally and as...
by SCNY Communications | Jul 25, 2023 | home, Laudato Si’, spirituality
By Sr. Carol De Angelo, Director of SCNY Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation The Songs of Creation. The Cries of the Earth and Her Peoples. Respond in Hope. These three movements in Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home...
by SCNY Communications | Dec 13, 2022 | home
By Sr. Carol De Angelo O Come O Come Emmanuel (God with us). I love the Advent Season. The liturgical readings remind me of waiting in hopeful expectation for the coming of God’s reign in its fulness, of God made flesh … in Jesus and in us and all Creation. Taking a...
by SCNY Communications | Nov 11, 2022 | sisters
By Sr. Regina Bechtle, SC Though not veterans of any branch of the military, Sisters of Charity of New York not only experienced the brutal impact of war but also gave heroic service during several wars. The Civil War Sr. Mary Ulrica O’Reilly supervised 14 Sisters of...
by SCNY Communications | Sep 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
During this hour of prayer and storytelling you will hear prayers for our migrant sisters and brothers in the words of five different faiths. God is present to all human beings and God listens to the petitions of all. You will also hear four presenters tell us how...
by Elena Miranda | Jul 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
By Retta Blaney I was commissioned as a Stephen Minister in September 2021 at Marble Collegiate Church. Stephen Ministers are highly-trained, highly-supervised lay ministers. I had 50 hours of classroom (Zoom) training and about 50 hours of reading. It’s...
by SCNY Communications | Jun 23, 2022 | spirituality of advocacy
By Carol De Angelo, Director of Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation This year the Feast of Pentecost was an invitation to pray to the Holy Spirit as Advocate and ask for insight and wisdom to understand what a spirituality of advocacy is and how I am...
by SCNY Communications | Jun 21, 2022 | immigration, racial justice
By Carol De Angelo, SC, Director of Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation As I read The 1619 Project (The New York Times, 2019) the section on the founding of Liberia had a personal significance because of my connection with Wantoe Teah Wantoe whom I...
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