Download or read book Ready for Any Good Work written by Mary Helen Beirne and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new history of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, focuses on the growth and evolution of the Congregation through the years 1944–1999. This book attempts to look at the Congregation, an ecclesial group of Catholic women religious, from the particular perspectives of spirituality, ministry, and governance. This history provides a view of the experience of women religious within a particular time and place. The Catholic in the pew and researchers alike will gain insight into the life of the Philadelphia Sisters of Saint Joseph in this important era of their transformation.
Download or read book Sisters of St Joseph of Philadelphia written by Maria Kostka Logue and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutions and Directory of The Sisters of Saint Joseph Chestnut Hill Philadelphia written by Sisters of St. Joseph (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1987* with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutions of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Philadelphia written by Sisters of St. Joseph, Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sisters of St Joseph Chestnut Hill Philadelphia Pennsylvania A Centenary Tribute 1858 1958 written by Sisters of St. Joseph and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Formulary of Prayers and Devotions for the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph Chestnut Hill Philadelphia Penna written by Sisters of Saint Joseph of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sisters of Saint Joseph Chestnut Hill Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1858 1958 written by and published by . This book was released on 1958* with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breaking Through the Glass Cloister written by Ryan P. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Vatican's widely-publicized criticism of American Catholic nuns in 2012, religious sisters have risen into the public consciousness. For decades, thousands of religious sisters in the United States have served within a rigid patriarchal Church that does not always recognize their contributions, yet relies on them to carry out its ministries. Through an emphasis on their missions of service to the poor and work for social justice, religious sisters emerged from this contentious situation with Rome as intelligent and dedicated women who lead dynamic lives that often go unnoticed. Through a case study of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Philadelphia, I analyze individual sisters' lived experiences. In this research, I seek to understand the congregation's institutional culture to uncover how religious sisters develop strategies to live out their mission of service to the poor and marginalized, and how they continue to advocate for social and structural change in the Catholic Church and in secular society. Specifically, I conducted interviews with 23 Sisters of St. Joseph and analyzed archived writings, letters, and congregational documents dating back to the late 1960s. I submit that over the past 50 years since the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II), the Sisters of St. Joseph actively embraced gender consciousness and social justice as a means of empowerment toward social change, despite the institutional pressures within the Church and society that discourage this. I argue that the progressive spirit and commitment to social justice indicative of a feminist orientation created a dissonance between religious sisters and Church leadership, while simultaneously increasing their integration into secular society. Ultimately, I contend that their congregational mission of unity and reconciliation, their status as sisters in a religious community, and privilege as educated women allows the Sisters of St. Joseph to be courageous risk-takers in advancing social and structural change in both the Catholic Church and the world. In addition to the 23 semi-structured interviews, I used qualitative content analysis to explore the congregation's primary archival documents, especially those published from the periodic general chapters just after Vatican II through the most recent chapter in summer 2014. These chapter meetings are called roughly every five years, during which time the Sisters of St. Joseph elect congregational leadership and articulate the community's organizational vision and direction. At each chapter's conclusion, the congregation publishes a document(s) that informs its mission and work for the next several years. In addition to these public documents, I was granted access to the Sisters of St. Joseph congregational archives, where I analyzed notes, letters, minutes, voting records, proposals and enactments, and personal recollections of the general chapter meetings. In total, I analyzed nearly 300 documents from the Sisters of St. Joseph congregational archives. In my textual analysis, I used subjective interpretation of language in the text with particular attention placed on its content and contextual meaning in order to identify themes or patterns. Once I identified the major themes, I grouped them into three theoretical areas, which became the empirical chapters 4, 5, and 6 of this study. Chapter 4 argues that the sisters' move toward active social justice work and advocacy after Vatican II is evidence of lived religion for this congregation. Chapter 5 analyzes how the Sisters of St. Joseph navigate issues of gender and sexuality in the Church, in their congregation, and in society. Chapter 6 looks at how the congregation contends with race and ethnicity within their own community, but also in the lives of the people they serve in their various ministries. Finally, in chapter 7, I conclude by examining how the congregation moved toward a more democratic, corporate structure focused on long-term viability in the decades after the Second Vatican Council. Ultimately, I argue that as the congregation evolved after Vatican II, they broke through what I call a "glass cloister." Through the renewal process, the Sisters of St. Joseph emerged from decades of restriction as sisters reborn, reclaiming their original congregational focus and eager to live out their lives in service to others. As convent rules loosened and the sisters claimed their voices within the Catholic Church structure and in secular society, the congregation defined itself as a dynamic community of women dedicated to social justice and advocacy for the poor and marginalized.
Download or read book Sisters of St Joseph of Carondelet written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Rev Mother St John Fontbonne written by Abbé Rivaux (Jean-Joseph) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constitutions of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph written by Sisters of Saint Joseph and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on the Questionnaire Survey a Summary written by Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Creative Suffering of the Triune God written by Gloria L. Schaab and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloria Schaab proposes to respond to cosmic suffering with the recognition that the triune Christian God participates in the sufferings of the cosmos.
Download or read book The Contribution of the Sisters of Saint Joseph to the Parochial Schools in Philadelphia written by Clare Amata Dempsey and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federation of Sisters of St Joseph written by Federation of Sisters of St. Joseph of the United States of America and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Rev Mother Saint Joseph Foundress of the Congregation of Sisters of St Joseph of Bordeaux written by Pierre François Lebeurier and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book Beyond the Call written by Sister Thomas Joseph McGoldrick SSJ and published by Xlibris Us. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story about the role of the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine, who came to Florida and Georgia immediately following the Civil War in 1866 to educate the liberated slaves. Florida's first Bishop, Augustin Verot invited the Sisters from the City of Le Puy, south central France, where the Congregation had been founded in 1650. The central piece of the story is about the first eight Sisters and those who followed them in establishing free schools, academies, the founding of orphanages, nursing during yellow fever epidemics (1877, 1888), teaching in public schools, americanization of the congregation, dynamics in dealing with Bishops in America, separation and excommunication, teaching the Apache Indians, and their arrest in 1916 for teaching Black students. Much of the story is told through letters written by the French Sisters to their comrades and family members in France in the late 1800's.
