October 26, 2016 It was all joy and excitement when the SHCJ Oghara Community staged a demonstrative exhibition of the art-works of one of her members, Sr. Anita Ekpo Dominic as part of the activities marking this year’s celebration of our Foundational Feast Day. The day started with the Holy Mass celebrated in the SHCJ […]
Sr. Mary Bourdon, RJM – Head of School, Washington School for Girls Washington School for Girls is a co-sponsored ministry of the Society of Holy Child Jesus. Last school year, the Washington School for Girls (WSG) started a soccer program at The VIEW Campus (3rd to 5th Grades) thanks to a partnership with US Soccer […]
October 15, 2016 Dear Friends, The members of the Society are gathering in different ways and places to celebrate the founding feasts of St. Edward and St. Teresa in 1846. We wanted to greet you at this time because you share so much with us. The Society’s life began with Cornelia Connelly knowing what it […]
Click the buttons below to find creative expressions by Holy Child Sisters celebrating the 170th anniversary of the Society’s foundation. Celebration in Song and Poetry Reflection on 170 Years SHCJ Founded on the Eucharist Drawing Cornelia’s Story The Society Marks 170 Years
October 12, 2016 The Society is celebrating 170 years this week. Holy Child Sisters Katharine Holmstrom and Agnes Solomon expressed their love for the Society by writing a song and poem, respectively. By Agnes Solomon, SHCJ There was a nun by name ‘Cornie’ Who toiled to get a place for God With other […]
October 11, 2016 The Society is celebrating 170 years this week. Art has always held a special place within the tradition and spirit of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, especially as part of a Holy Child education. SHCJ founder Cornelia Connelly was an artist who saw all forms of artistic endeavors as invitations […]
October 10, 2106 In honor of the great Saint Teresa of Avila and on the feast of the little Saint Therese of Lisieux, Jeanne Marie Guerin, SHCJ scripted this short story. The Society is celebrating 170 years this week. New Life! The creeping darkness wove its way around the small red plant. Final rays of sun […]
October 10, 2106 The Society is celebrating 170 years this week. By Maria Ogochukwu Manu, SHCJ “For this is our mission: to help others to believe that he lives and acts in them and in our world, and to rejoice in his presence.” (SHCJ Constitutions #4) We are to carry out our mission as SHCJ […]
October 10, 2016 2016 marks the 170th anniversary of the founding of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. The life of Cornelia Connelly, our founder, was anything but typical. She was a wife of an Episcopalian minister, mother to five children, and ultimately, the founder of our order of Roman Catholic Sisters. The catalyst […]
September 28, 2016 From California to the Dominican Republic to England to Nigeria and points in between, students who attend our Holy Child Network of Schools and co-sponsored schools have settled into another year of education of the mind, body and spirit. Have a great school year!
