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

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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

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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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Z ll- ,,t .R +-- -X. - l - -f 4- 'ha- ,fa- .i ,Alba gm-.--s -xinrngaa-..-4: ,.,-- A .? 'N -. ,.-...., ll! trust llf EE' Since 1944 the general superior of the society has been Reverend Mother Charles Edward. Through her earnest endeavors the whole congregation in the Brooklyn Diocese has benefitted by her hard work. The schools in which Sisters of St. joseph are staffed include two colleges, twelve high schools and seventy-six elementary schools. The Sisters also regulate four catechetical schools, staff two hos- pitals, four infirmaries and provide missionary talents of fifty-six Sisters in the missions of Puerto Rico. Perhaps, the most long awaited hope of the entire community was the new Novitate for the Sisters of St. Joseph. And this was built during the past few years. As part of the ceremonies for the Cen- tenary celebration of the Sisters of St. joseph, the Novitate's triple- winged building was blessed and dedicated by His Excellency the Most Reverend A. Kearney, April 3, 1956. Some of it can be told in this The littleness of daily things- But the rest can never be told It is the secret of the Spouse, The secret of the Interior Life, Where the soul is lost And annihilated in God As in a sea ----- 1 fzf---M-N H H ana SN 'WL . 1 l slli 91956