Sister Rebecca White reflects on Jesus’ last seven sayings for Lent

The Ursuline Sisters have helped us  journey through Lent in 2024 by sharing some favorite reading material. Sister Rebecca White prepares us to enter the Easter Triduum with our final installment of “How We Observe Lent.” “For many years during Lent, especially during Holy Week, I have reflected on Jesus’ last seven sayings from the…

Sister Pat Rhoten shares her love of “The Singer” during Lent

As we enter Holy Week, we continue with the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph sharing a favorite book they read during Lent. We call this feature “How We Observe Lent.” Our contribution today is from Sister Pat Rhoten. “For Lent, I love to read the book The Singer. It is about the life and…

Fleece blankets delivered to women’s emergency shelter

Ten days after Ursuline Sisters and Associates made 15 blankets from fleece, Sister Amelia Stenger delivered those blankets, along with five quilts, on March 22, 2024, to My Sister’s Keeper emergency shelter for women in Owensboro. Angel Welsh, the executive director of My Sister’s Keeper, was overjoyed to receive the brightly colored array of blankets.…

Sisters decorate Saint Joseph’s Table to celebrate feast day

The feast of Saint Joseph on March 19 is a significant day for the Ursuline Sisters, who literally have Saint Joseph in the name of their community. On March 19, 2024, for the second year, the Sisters in Saint Joseph Villa celebrated with Saint Joseph’s Table, creating a beautiful display of food and decorations. This…

Sister Susan Mary Mudd travels the way of the cross with Jesus

Sister Susan Mary Mudd is the next Sister to help us journey through Lent in 2024, sharing with us her spiritual reading during these 40 days. We call this feature “How We Observe Lent.” “For myself, I can think of no better way to observe Lent than to meditate on the Stations of the Cross…

Saint Angela calls us to prayer and to seek the true vine in Jesus

(Photo above of “Christ the Vine” by Lorenzo Lotto, 1524, Suardi Chapel, Trescore Balnegrio, Province of Bergamo.) By Sister Nancy Liddy As we begin a year of celebration to mark the anniversary of our foundation, we have an opportunity to reflect on the words of Saint Angela contained in the theme selected for the occasion.…

Second history video details the formative years of 1885-1895

The second in our monthly series of videos depicting the history of the Ursuline Sisters of Mount Saint Joseph focuses on the formative years from 1885-1895. A young Sister Aloysius Willett makes her mark on the young community, which she would ultimately lead through the first two decades of the 20th century. The Ursuline Sisters…

Sisters and Associates make blankets for women’s shelter

As part of Catholic Sisters Week, Ursuline Sisters and Associates spent March 11 and 12, 2024, making blankets to donate to an Owensboro, Ky., emergency shelter for women and children. The volunteers made 15 blankets out of fleece. Two yards of fleece were laid on top of the other, and then the sides were cut…

Quilting Friends return to help support the Ursuline Sisters

It started for Beverly Howell in the 1970s when her aunt gave her a hexagon-shaped template made from a cereal box. Howell used the template to cut fabric pieces, then her aunt taught her to sew them together. Before she knew it, another quilter was born. “It gets in your blood, you keep going,” she…