For 10 years, we have gone into our neighborhoods to serve and address needs, just as our founding Sisters did 375 years ago in Le Puy, France. This year, we will tend to community gardens, clean up riverbeds, cook and serve meals, pack food boxes, clean for families, build community, support unhoused families, and so much more!

In the early years of the beginning of the Sisters of St. Joseph in France around 1650, the Sisters gathered in 3’s or 4’s to live in community and to serve the needs of the “dear neighbor” around them.  They would go out into the neighborhood and seek out those in need and do their best to meet the needs of the poor.  When they returned to their houses in the evening, they would sit around the fireplace in the kitchen while making lace and they would share what was in their hearts, where they had encountered God’s presence in their ministry that day.

Today, we stand on their shoulders, guided by their support and wisdom, in moving forward their mission in serving our “dear neighbor.”