A Giving Tree In 1984 Dr. John Schugt, an Emergency Room Physician in southern California, decided to purchase a Christmas tree that he saw was filled with children’s toys and books. He wanted every child who visited the Emergency Room during the Christmas Season to be able to take something […]

Christmas as the feast for the poor In this week’s Advent video, Sr. Constance, lsp looks at Christmas giving to the poor in the mid to late 19th century. As our Little Sisters in Baltimore celebrated their first American Christmas, they remarked that Christmas seemed like the feast of the […]

Christmas Open House I’ll be home for Christmas; You can count on me. Please have snow and mistletoe And presents on the tree. …And lots of smiling faces. On Sunday, December 9 many family, old and new friends, and neighbors came together at St. Joseph’s Home for our Christmas Open […]

Christmas Cookies and Happy Hearts… …this is how the Christmas season starts! Our Residents bakers we busy preparing a multitude of cookies for our Christmas Open House. Each afternoon for the past week, they have carefully mixed, cut and lovingly decorated dozens and dozens of delicious Christmas cookies. The aroma […]

Christmas is for Children In this week’s Advent video, Sr. Constance, lsp looks at how Christmas evolved into a child-centered holiday in the mid to late 19th century. Learn how German customs and literary classics like ‘A Visit from St. Nicholas’ helped to shape our American traditions. How well do […]

Christmas, Not What You Might Have Thought Scrooge was not the only one who didn’t quite get it! In the context of the 150th anniversary of our arrival in the United States, Sr. Constance Veit, set out to learn how our first Little Sisters in America celebrated Christmas, and how […]