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Since we started our website, many people have written to reconnect with our community or a particular Sister. We invite you to use our new feature to request information on, or to make contact with, a former teacher, colleague, friend, or relative. Find a Sister ... |
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Maxim 61 -- Strive also wholeheartedly after the peaceful and intimate union with God, very cordial charity and forbearance towards the neighbor, really innocent purity of heart, very perfect fidelity to grace joined to a peaceful death to all natural inclinations, very true humility, simplicity and sincere candor, the obedience of a child who looks for no reason, poverty completely stripped, continual joy of spirit appropriate to your institute, in a word, attain the pure and perfect love of God which explains all things. Read on ...
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We, the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine, Florida, welcome you on this day of the Lord . Every day, for your reflection and contemplation, we offer a Maxim and a link to Today’s Readings from Scripture. We invite you to learn more about our congregation of women religious and the work we do by clicking on any of the links in the directory to the left.
In 1866, a group of Sisters left the motherhouse in Le Puy, France to serve those in need in the American South. Today, 141 years later, the times (and some of the needs) have changed, yet our Sisters continue to use their God-given gifts creatively throughout the State of Florida to meet the needs of the present moment--touching lives, all life long.
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Today's Readings
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The banner art depicts the Great Cross, erected at Mission Nombre de Dios forty years ago to commemorate the founding of St. Augustine, Florida in 1565. The Sisters of St. Joseph wear a replica of this cross.
© 2006 Sisters of St. Joseph, St. Augustine, Florida
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