Spirituality and Prayer

Pray With Us

The Generalate Community prays daily during Advent for a particular province, group, or global concern. Let us together pray with the Generalate community for each of the daily intentions during our Advent season.
Pope Francis published his third encyclical, Fratelli Tutti, in October, 2020, on "fraternity and social friendship." He said, “I would like to reiterate the appeal for peace, justice and fraternity: in the name of orphans, widows, refugees, and those exiled from their homes and their countries; in...
The Immigration Law & Justice (ILJ) Network is coordinating a virtual vigil to honor the migrants who died while crossing the border this past year. 

In Memoriam

Anonymous donors gifted the Academy of the Holy Angels with a million dollars to renovate the former convent in 2016, with the request that it be named the Sister Genevieve Marie Kelleher Hall in honor of her long service to the Academy. When Genevieve heard this surprising news, she said, “What a...
Sr Theresa Torsone
A wonderful Sister and community member, Theresa also spent 36 years at St. Matthias in Ridgewood, Queens, New York. There she was an excellent teacher and member of the school staff, but by all accounts, she was “a master math teacher.”  A colleague said, “She could teach math to anyone.” In a...
Sister Grace M. Messarge
Sister Grace taught for several years in primary/elementary classes, then became a teacher of French. She was also an administrator at Archbishop Keough and St. Maria Goretti High Schools in Maryland and at Madonna Academy, which later became Chaminade-Madonna High School, in Hollywood, Florida....

"Prayer is true heavenly food and nourishment for the soul, which will starve without it. It is a remedy for the sick who desire to recover again, joy for the afflicted, strength for the weak, medicine for sinners, delight for the just, mutual support for the entire church.”

-BLESSED THERESA GERHARDINGER