Sacred Heart Academy - Ex Corde Yearbook (Hempstead, NY)

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.nan ,.,, ,va -, f 'x ,A -' , M-7 '-H I, 4 f X t A ,ll :Ball ,,i,-- i Q f1f 'l: i' D ill! Y F: F' j -'zf fi ,Zi 9 9 9 0' 9 9 9 fi ' il' N X- sn' xsa-iifii' AE H E 5 5- ' HE HL H gl Silver bells of jubilee rang out in 1881. The Sisters had labored for AQ cs 'K X A' Av' i , Why- i' xijx 'tx ll' . ill fig? fu I. , Ill , 'A gy V i Y n-,',.u. .aQ.a-1 , V --9 7 4'::::f. twenty five years in the Diocese and had opened, staffed and were teaching in seventeen schools. It seemed that parish after parish had sought their services. In 1886, the care of the Male Asylum, at St. Marks and Albany Avenues, was entrusted to the Sisters. This asylum later became known as St. John's Home and was administered by Mother M. Baptista. Mother Theresa, who had succeeded Mother M. Baptista, resigned her trust into the capable hands of Mother Mary Louis. The institu- tions under the society's jurisdiction included St. Peter's Home for working girls, St. john's Long Island City Hospital, St. Malachy's Home in East New York and St. Iohn's Home as well as some twenty parish schools. Thus the active charity of the sisters began to unfold itself in the care of the orphaned boy, the homeless girl, and in untiring devotion to the poor, the sick and the dying in home and hospital. Such charity did not go unrewarded for vocations began to multiply to such a degree that it was imperative that a new and larger motherhouse and novitate be founded to accommodate them. Bishop McDonnell approved the purchase of the Brentwood property in 1896 and in 1903 the Sisters of Saint joseph moved into their new home, the former Hotel Austral. Before the golden jubilee of the sisters in the Diocese would be celebrated, St. joseph's Commercial High School and St. joseph Hospital, Far Rockaway were to be founded.

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Tgnnhrrh igraraq. 6666666666666 it t 1 11212111111 nf the 31111111 N THE LATE SUMMER of 1856, no bells of welcome rang out for the three young Sisters of St. joseph who were to lay the foundation of their community in the Diocese of Brooklyn. Bishop Loughlin had written to the Philadelphia Motherhouse and the daughters of St. joseph had answered. . ff, f X The three Sisters arrived at St. Mary's Academy on Grand Street in Williamsburg during a period in which the Catholics were being suppressed. The society was forced to cover the habit to conceal its f s, Y identity. It was not an unfamiliar sight to see the Sisters on the way , ' 71 .- ,, ' j - K:-v., 1 to do their weeldy shopping dressed in green flowered Q-.1-,sf - 'L l - 1.1 rin 'f I Paisley shawls and hats with flowers on them. Even going ll pump at the end of the convent garden required a sunbonnet -1 -'11-X effing ' 'ji 1 if X I 'f' i s 4: J' ff' the veil of the Catholic Sister. V -N1 5 'f'?s.y, f -...i'Z.f-321'-zes+ fi - , 'f'-1-T F P ? 'A ffiii 'TC' Sister M. Baptista and Sister Hortensia with ffffijf- - - ij T' 75' ,.?1iu.'-1Ex1-a,'w..:f:f- f-- 'fi Mother Austin were to work for the next four 1 FAM 4, . W . . years until their thriving community prompted 'ffl' .. N kk . the Bishop to urge them on to Flushing for voca- XJEL jigs 1 , tions began appearing rapidly. Many were due l 5i .gf 43,,1 to the weekly conferences on religious life given Qt if '. g,,fl 1 A by the Bishop himself. ew A 7-755:11 721 I T? - fir psf ' r V-11' , 47 : r tl 'll-I' 'flll ir Q' 5: ' 1 11 if , A- Lg-1 Q 1 -f A? , -,,.1--Q- 1 ' - 6 4 o 4 Q 6 o 6 fs in -f r io ' 3 1 I . 4 Q u 1 .fm IH H H ' .1.1...1 . Illllllullll ll ull n I ll im' ll,.llllll! -in 1 ,f j ,,...-

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Golden bells of jubilee rang out in 1906 and with each peal, Reverend Mother Mary Louis envisioned a row of buildings that would grace the Brentwood skyline. Under her dynamic leadership those buildings, with the exception of the new Novitate, were to become a reality. But the growth of the Community would not be confined to Brentwood. From 1906 until Reverend Mother's death in 1932, .. twenty-three elementary schools, five high schools and St. Ioseph's ,ZN- College for Women were founded to send forth armies or spiritually X equipped, trained and disciplined youth. Fully prepared, their stu- ff dents have taken their places as teachers in the public schools and 1 colleges in thousands of offices of our business world and in tens of thousands of good Catholic homes where they are the guardians QI J of the future. The first call for volunteers for mission work in San Iuan and lg V Ponce in Puerto Rico came too during the superiorship of Mother V Mary Louis. And after her death, Reverend Mother lane Frances took over the apostolic leadership of the Sisters of St. joseph. J .1 sl',Y 1 The work of the Sisters of St. Joseph grew by leaps and bounds. 4 In the next twelve years, Mother jane Frances was to establish three Q l gg 'ff schools on the secondary level, the Mary Louis Academy, Fontbonne n fill Hall, Stella Maris High School. New elementary schools too were Z K opened. S- a l ft is :Pr l , bf Sl 'Fkggfffi ,Z V 9' ' ,N 4 f '-5?-Lil-?.'2fi! V F ' . if sg, Hi , 1.3.5 ' Lg,g,4, 4 o o o o 4 4 o M . A ,M i x 5- ,:51Gg2-we J! qi ' L,-1? WS: V A e . .4 pk Lg, . -.-as I ggi.:- N ' 1 I -W! l