Hope Partnership Launches New Music Programs

October 19, 2016 Rose Martin, RSM, Executive Director, Hope Partnership for Education Hope Partnership for Education is a co-sponsored ministry of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. JAZZ, PERCUSSION AND STRINGS, OH MY! Hope Partnership launched its first jazz, percussion and string ensembles this year. Trumpets, trombones and saxophones bellowed through the halls. Violins […]

After Losses, Law Center Secures Girls a Stable Life

October 5, 2016 Carmen M. Chavez, Esq., Executive Director of Casa Cornelia Law Center  Casa Cornelia Law Center is a sponsored ministry of the Society of Holy Child Jesus. The story of four young Mexican female cousins (two sets of sisters) began with the tragic and violent loss of their fathers. Their names are Maria, […]

A Reflection on Attending Mass Celebrated by Pope Francis

September 26, 2016 By Jeanne Marie Hatch, SHCJ (Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, PA Saturday, September 26, 2015) I was delighted and grateful to learn I was a winner of one of the nine tickets offered to the Society of the Holy Child Jesus to attend the Papal Mass for priests, religious […]

Season of Creation

September 23, 2016 Taken from the Summer 2016 issue of the SHCJ Associates Newsletter, American Province. According to Pope Francis, “The annual World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation [September 1] offers to individual believers and to the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of […]

Providence Center a ‘Safe Haven’ for Many Children

September 21, 2016 David Chiles, Executive Director of Providence Center Providence Center in Philadelphia is a sponsored ministry of the Society of Holy Child Jesus. Providence Center recently held an event to announce our impending move into a new building. We are excited about this move, as the new building is more than five times […]

How SHCJ Associates Support Our Ministries

September 21, 2016 By Judy Talvacchia, SHCJ Associate In his Jubilee audience on June 30, 2016, Pope Francis said, “Mercy without works is dead.” He went on, “To be merciful
 like God our Father demands constant sensitivity to the needs, material and spiritual, of those around us.” A number of SHCJ Associates are offering service […]

South Central LAMP’s Reach, Offerings Grow

September 28, 2016 Diana Pinto – Executive Director, South Central Los Angeles Ministry Project (SC LAMP) SC LAMP is a co-sponsored ministry of the Society of Holy Child Jesus. South Central LAMP’s program year has officially begun, and we are so excited to welcome both returning and new families. One of the best parts of […]

Oak Knoll Head of School Selected for Klingenstein Fellowship

September 30, 2016 SUMMIT, NJ, September 27, 2016 – Timothy J. Saburn, head of school at Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child, in Summit, New Jersey, has been awarded a fully-funded fellowship to the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership’s 2017 Heads of Schools Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. This distinguished honor, established […]

First Day of School: An Essay by a Student at Oak Knoll School

September 8, 2016 First Day of School A Reflection by a Fifth Grade Student Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child in Summit, NJ It was a fall evening. I was running around with my brother. The leaves were just turning yellow, red, brown, and orange. I always loved how they looked. It reminded me […]