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by Sr. Marchery I am Sr. Marchery Ado, the  sister in charge of our Training Center for out of school youth. I consider recruitment time as the most challenging yet a grace filled experience. Being a foreigner in this country, the thought of going to other regions, places unknown often frightens me but since it […]

The Sisters of Mary’s allegiance to five vows has made them one of the hardest-working religious communities in the world. Some thirty-three years ago, a young religious sister named Sr. Margie Cheong would join in the evening twilight with Venerable Aloysius Schwartz and a few other Sisters of Mary on a wide hacienda porch in […]

“Non sum ego eram”- I am not that I was Fr. Bob Golas had been a priest for nearly two decades in the Archdiocese of Washington when something foreign – something uncontrollable – began to materialize in his body this past winter. It came on abruptly. Those in his presence observed it but out of […]

Walking to Guadalupe CHALCO – Fr. Dan Leary, five sisters from the Sisters of Mary community, teachers, employees, and more than 170 graduates from Boystown and Girlstown communities felt the need to keep things light on their 25-mile walking pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe this past Sunday. So periodically, a single […]

Needy’s Story This is Needy’s story in her own words: “My first memories began at the age of four when I saw how my father hit my mother. She did not defend herself. At the age of six I was in kindergarten; one day they brought me home from school because my father had been […]

Date: June 9-12, 2023 Location: Mexico Join us June 9-12, 2023 for an exclusive tour reserved for Legatus members and their guests. Take this sacred pilgrimage to Mexico to visit Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Sisters of Mary in Chalco, Mexico. This tour assures a journey of faith renewal and fellowship as you travel […]

All to Bring the Poor to Christ Which was the most difficult for Washington D.C. native Venerable Aloysius Schwartz: a) Become the first American seminarian in the history of Maryknoll formation to leave (he considered their missionary work too comfortable) and join an obscure order of missionary priests in Belgium whose charism was to spend […]

Serve the Lord with Joy I recently was given the great grace of attending a pilgrimage with Legatus to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City and then a visit to our own Villa de las Niñas in Chalco, Mexico. As has become customary, visiting the Sisters and the 3,400-plus girls […]

Poorer, Holier and Closer A Lenten reflection series based on Fr. Al’s Ten Suggestions for Christian Service to the Poor

Poorer, Holier and Closer A Lenten reflection series based on Fr. Al’s Ten Suggestions for Christian Service to the Poor

Poorer, Holier and Closer A Lenten reflection series based on Fr. Al’s Ten Suggestions for Christian Service to the Poor