Dear Friends of Joseph House: We enjoyed watching the Olympic Games this past summer, and it’s always exciting to see athletes find an extra burst of energy as they enter the home stretch of a race. Sometimes even a marathon comes down to a sprint at the end. They might be running on fumes, but…
Sr. Virginia and Sr. Marilyn were interviewed by Bob Krebs for Catholic Forum, a production of the Office of Communication of the Diocese of Wilmington. The video was posted October 9, 2024. You can watch it below and read the transcript too. The two Sisters talk about the various ministries of the Joseph House, our…
Dear Friends of Joseph House: Two key components of the mission of the Joseph House are to help the poor in whatever way we can and to promote and stabilize family life. These two become one and the same quite visibly when we help people with their housing needs. As Pope Francis said, “Family and…
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On July 6, the day before the actual anniversary, we hosted an open house at the Joseph House Workshop to celebrate with our volunteers and staff. The turnout was great. We saw old friends and some new faces, watched a DVD of memories and made ice cream sundaes — which were just perfect on a…
Dear Friends of Joseph House: Fifty years ago, on a sunny Sunday morning in July, our community was born. It didn’t have a name yet (that would be decided on a few weeks later), but the Little Sisters of Jesus and Mary trace their origin to July 7, 1974, the day when Pat Guidera and…
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This is how Sr. Mary Elizabeth Gintling once recounted the story of how she began the Little Sisters of Jesus and Mary: “I started in 1974, I don’t know how. I had already begun what we call Joseph House, which is our apostolate, and I was doing that as a layperson with other lay people,…
We are very sad to announce that Reverend Monsignor Daniel J. McGlynn, a priest of the Diocese of Wilmington and chaplain for the Little Sisters of Jesus and Mary, died on January 1, 2024. He was 84. Msgr. Dan became our chaplain in 1982 when he was an as associate pastor at St. Francis de…
Over the summer, we have been putting in a little extra effort to fix up our convent property in Salisbury. With new plants and some yard maintenance, our outdoor space, humble as it is, gives a little more glory to our Creator. Our gratitude for the labor goes to a few friends of our community….
On Wednesday, May 17, 2023, Sr. Clare of the Little Sisters of Jesus and Mary, formerly Diane Quinn , 77, was called from the Sisters’ home in Princess Anne, Maryland to her Home with the Lord. Born in Baltimore on October 28, 1945, Diane Carol Douglas was the only child of Ruth H. Clopein Douglas…
Dear Friends, We would like to begin by saying that we are in prayerful solidarity with everyone being impacted by the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19, now a global pandemic. This virus has brought sickness and even death to a growing number of people. It has also brought worry, fear, shortages of medical supplies and…