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Sister Nuala Kelly receives BEM for her dedication to education and healthcare in Belfast. Celebrated at Hillsborough Castle and Buckingham Palace.

World Youth Day (WYD) 2023

The orchestra performed Fanny Mendelssohn – Overture in C, Brahms – Violin Concerto, Schumann – Symphony No. 3, “The Rhenish” Bernadette has been playing the cello with the Harrow Symphony Orchestra for some years now. It was a great performance and lovely to hear live music played with such skill and passion.

A pilgrim is a traveller who is on a journey to a holy place, and that is it!  A group of eleven Daughters of Charity journeying to our spiritual home in the Rue du Bac, Paris. It was wonderful to be back in the chapel of the Miraculous Medal where each sister in our province, […]

The Province of the Daughters of Charity in Nigeria celebrated the 60th anniversary of their founding on the 29th of November 2023. The province was founded in 1963 when three missionary Sisters (Daughters of Charity) from the Province of Great Britain came to settle in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.  The Sisters noticed the poverty experienced […]

Manchester October 2023 – Sister Susan Molloy DC enjoyed a beautiful farewell tribute on her retirement from hospital chaplaincy after more than 25 years in ministry, leaving a legacy of compassionate service to patients and staff. Here she is in the Mayor’s Jaguar with the current chaplain playing chauffeur!

On 6th October 2023, the Province of Rosalie Rendu welcomed Sr Anne Redmond as Councillor to its Provincial Team. The installation ceremony took place during a Mass held in the Sacred Heart Parish, Mill Hill. Sr Julie Kubersak DC, Assistant General, had travelled from the Mother House, Paris to initiate Sr Anne into her new […]

7-12 September 2023 there was great joy in the Province of Rosalie Rendu, as we welcomed Sr Francoise Petit (Superioress General) and Sr Julie Kubasak (General Councillor) from our Mother House in Paris. They physically met with us in five GB locations: Glasgow, Liverpool, Southport, London and Brentwood – as well as virtually via Zoom […]

On 23rd September 2023, Stephen D’Souza and nine other former Vincentian Volunteers plus Sister Marie Raw DC, gathered at the Sister’s house in Carlisle Place, Central London for a reunion. Stephen writes: ” Yesterday evening was a 30 year reunion of being a Vincentian Volunteer. That year was the most fulfilling, formative, memorable and life-changing […]

18th-21st September 2023, twenty three Daughters of Charity in Province Leadership gathered in Wistaston Hall, Crewe to focus their attention on their new Province Plan flowing from the recent worldwide Daughter of Charity Inter Assemblies Document. Each local DC community has between now and 25th January 2024 to make this plan a lived reality at […]

Saturday 23rd September 2023 was a special day for the Vincentian Family in Scotland as “Vincentians” gathered in Scotland’s National Marian Shrine to pre-empt the celebration of the Feast of St Vincent de Paul (which the worldwide Catholic Church celebrates on 27th September.) The celebrant and homilist was Fr Eugene Curran CM who is parish […]

In 1907 Archbishop Bourne set up a home in Clapham for crippled boys from the slums and workhouses of the poorest parts of London in the Diocese of Westminster. This home was run by the Daughters of Charity and was known as St Vincent’s Home for Crippled Boys. Awful terminology but that was the language of […]

5th August 2023 – Sisters Margaret Barrett, Bernadette Ryder and Maureen Tinkler left Heathrow airport on a British Airways flight to Sydney via Singapore. A 22-hour marathon expedition to the “land down-under”. We were on a journey of discovery and, during our three weeks stay, we were introduced to many “hidden gems”: First of all […]

On Saturday, the 1st of July, the #nunsof twitter (and one #bruvoftwitter) held a conference in London.  The theme was “Discovering Treasure: Exploring the Impact of Social Media on Religious Life”.  The conference was a response to a desire of the  group, which meets monthly on Zoom, to explore the topic of the ‘treasure of […]

Daughters of Charity Services held a two-day conference in Manchester’s city centre this week. Running from 13 – 14 June, the event brought together 50 attendees and served to shape the narrative of collaboration for the years ahead. Among delegates were CEOs, trustees, senior members and front-line staff from the six diverse UK charities that […]

The weekend of the 3rd and 4th of June 2023, marked the Opening of the 4th Centenary of the “Light of Pentecost”. The event reminded us of the day when St. Louise de Marillac received from the Holy Spirit the revelation that changed her whole life. During these days, the relics of St. Louise’s writings […]

From 9th-12th May 2023 – 63 Daughters of Charity from across the 4 geographic areas of the province: Australia, North England, South England and Scotland , gathered for the first post Covid Province Meeting in High Leigh Conference Centre, Hertfordshire since our integration in 2020. We arrived on the 9th May – Feast of our […]