Since 1633, the Daughters of Charity have served where we are needed most.
Sending on Mission
SISTER ROCIO BRIONES, DC
Saturday March 2, 2024, was a wonderful day with the Sending on Mission of Sr. Rocio Briones, who will live and minister at St. Vincent’s, Santa Barbara, California. Many Sisters from the Province were able to join her for the occasion, as well as Sr. Julie Kubasak, Assistant General, and Sr. Elizabeth Greim, Seminary Directress for the Interprovincial Seminary. Sr. Rocio will serve as Assistant Case Manager at the Fr. Virgil Cordano Center and as Program Manager of the Intergenerational and Aging Well Program, facilitating interactions between the senior residents and the children in the Early Childhood Center. Sr. Rocio is excited about her first mission!
Search and Serve Retreat Bay Area ~ May 22-27, 2024
IS GOD CALLING YOU TO BE A SISTER?
Come and Stay with us! Pray with us! Serve at our Ministries with us!
Join our Prayerful and Reflective Religious Vocation Discernment Retreat. Search your Heart. Stay and Pray about your Future. Serve those living in poverty side-by-side with Sisters. Explore your Vocation with us! Complete our Interest Form. We will contact you with more information. This retreat is for Single Catholic Women Ages 18-40.
OUR MINISTRIES
In the Province of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, our roots run deep. Through the years we built and staffed orphanages, schools, and medical facilities, and our ministries have adapted to the changing needs of their communities.
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Thoughts, Prayers and Resources
Laudato Si’ Committee | Province of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Week of April 15, 2024
“How wonderful is the certainty that each human life is not adrift in the midst of hopeless chaos, in a world ruled by pure chance or endlessly recurring cycles! The Creator can say to each one of us: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you” (Jer 1:5). We were conceived in the heart of God and for this reason “each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.”
Pope Francis
Loving Creator,
help us to know today how we are loved by you,
how we were created by your loving thoughts,
how you willed that we would exist today,
in this moment, in this time,
in this season for your purpose now and always.
Amen.
View Our Other Areas of Focus in Advocacy
Environment • Homelessness and Insecure Housing • Human Trafficking • Hunger • Immigration • Racism
Our Sisters in Mission
Transitions
In Loving Memory
Sister Marie Christiane Nguyen, DC
April 12, 2024 | 93 years of age
71 years of vocation | social ministry
Transitions
In Loving Memory
Sister Charlotte Marie Clark, DC
April 11, 2024 | 91 years of age
37 years of vocation | social ministry
The Daughters of Charity are called to serve Jesus Christ in the person of the poor and the marginalized. We do this in a spirit of humility, simplicity, and charity. Motivated by the love of Christ and strengthened by a deep prayer life… we live together in community… supporting each other in our common mission of service. Besides vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience… we also make a special vow of service of the poor. These vows are non-religious, annual, and always renewable. The Catholic Church acknowledges us as a Society of Apostolic Life. Since 1852, up and down the Coast of California, the Daughters of Charity helped settle California through Health Care, Education, Religion, and Social Work.