Dear Friends of Joseph House: There’s a Christmas song that goes “There’s no place like home for the holidays,” but on that first Christmas Mary and Joseph were far from home, and 60 years ago this December so was the founder of the Joseph House and Little Sisters. Sr. Mary Elizabeth, who back then was…
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…
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…
Dear Friends of Joseph House: The dog days of summer are here, and the heat makes us want to take it easy and dream of the sea breezes down by the beach. But for people who are poor there is no vacation from poverty. Families facing eviction or a utility cut-off, the elderly and infirm…
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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,…