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Advent Meditations with Joseph – Week 2

By Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern PA | December 7, 2020

Rejoice! Advent Meditations with Joseph by Fr. Mark Toups Experience a more peaceful, joyful, more meaningful Advent than ever before. This year, our SSJ Advent prayer will include a video series made available by Ascension Press. The series includes a short video each week and Sr. Mary Rose Romeo has built a PowerPoint presentation to…

Advent Meditations with Joseph – Week 1

By Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern PA | November 23, 2020

Rejoice! Advent Meditations with Joseph by Fr. Mark Toups Experience a more peaceful, joyful, more meaningful Advent than ever before. This year, our SSJ Advent prayer will include a video series made available by Ascension Press. The series includes a short video each week and Sr. Mary Rose Romeo has built a PowerPoint presentation to…

COVID Relief – Sample Script

By Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern PA | November 16, 2020

COVID Relief Now that the Senate is back in session, the first order of business must be to call our Senators to accountability and demand that they pass a robust COVID relief package. Call Your Senators Today (202) 224-3121 and ask them to pass a COVID relief package. Suggested script: “Good Morning, My name is…

Recycling Made Simple – Virtual Event

By Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern PA | November 2, 2020

The Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern Pennsylvania are sponsoring a virtual recycling education event to help the community learn more about recycling in the Erie County area. A great deal of confusion exists about recycling, and residents are often left wondering: What is recyclable? What isn’t? Do I have to clean items first? Do…

A Reflection on the 370th Anniversary of the Founding of the Sisters of St. Joseph

By Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern PA | November 2, 2020

A reflection by Mary Fromknecht, SSJ October 15th marked the 370th Anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of St. Joseph in LePuy, France. This passage is the foundation of each of our spiritual lives—our God’s promise to dwell among us and be with us forever. In the the1650s, our first sisters heard this very…

Treats, Not Tricks!

By Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern PA | November 2, 2020

“Necessity is the mother of invention.” This proverb means that a need or problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem. Once again, COVID-19 made it necessary for us to do things a little differently. The associates had some creative Halloween fun on October 25 in lieu of their usual …

Wrapping Our Nation in Prayer

By Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern PA | November 2, 2020

Our upcoming election is slated to be one of the most important of our lifetime. As a result, the U.S. Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph is asking all SSJ congregations and communities to join in our 100 Days of Prayer – Wrapping Our Nation In Prayer initiative. The special sheet was sent out via…

The Voice of Hope

By Sisters of St. Joseph of Northwestern PA | November 2, 2020

by SSJ Agregee and Social Justice Coordinator, Betsy Wiest When Hope Lloyd was four years old, she went with her mother on what she thought was an outing to a park near her London, England residence. She didn’t understand why she needed to take an airplane to get to the park. When the plane landed,…