News

We want to keep you in the loop of what’s happening in the SSJ Erie community. Browse through this section to explore our most recent publications, our Facebook feed, our Jubilarians' bios, and the most recent obituaries of our Sisters who have passed.

Take Back the Site Vigils

| January 21, 2020

Take Back the Site Vigils were started because of the murder of Anora Manus, a mother of five children.  Since then, the Sisters of St. Joseph, the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, and the Sisters of Mercy have organized numerous vigils.  The three communities work together to reclaim locations where murders have occurred for non-violence.  The…

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TAKE ACTION: refugee resettlement numbers

| January 21, 2020

The current administration has reduced the refugee resettlement program by 80% and set this year’s refugee admissions goal at 18,000, the lowest level in U.S. history. Given that there are more than 25 million refugees worldwide, more than half of whom are children, the dismantling of the resettlement program is unconscionable. Please call your Senator…

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TAKE ACTION against Human Trafficking in PA

| January 17, 2020

PA highway signage is inadequate! Support PA House Bill 1513  “An act providing for the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline Notification Act, imposing duties on the Department of Labor and Industry, and prescribing penalties.”  Please contact PA Representative Jim Cox and ask him to work to hold hearings on House Bill 1513. On May…

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winter 2019-2020

| December 30, 2019
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meet SSJ Associate Brandon Vogt

| December 30, 2019

Brandon Vogt became an associate in 2012. At 32, he is our youngest associate. Sr. Mary Thomas Downing, his mentor, said, “Tell them you sang your way in.” Brandon is a pastoral liturgist and musician in the Diocese of Erie and serves as the Director of Liturgy and Music at Our Lady of Mercy Church….

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the donkey

| December 24, 2019

a reflection by Betsy Wiest, SSJ Agregee and Social Justice Coordinator In a small town called Nazareth, a young 14-year old girl named Mary responded “yes” when an angel told her she would become the mother of our Lord. Mary was betrothed, but not yet married to Joseph when she learned she was with child….

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PHOTO AT THE TOP OF THIS PAGE: (l-r) Eva Mastromatteo of Erie News Now interviews Stephanie Hall, SSJ Associate and Communications Director, and Nancy Fischer, SSJ, as part of a 5-part series during Catholic Sisters Week.