Under Construction:
Building a Habitat Home
The Ursuline Sisters are sponsoring the build of a Habitat for Humanity home along South Shelby Street. The project is in honor of the Sisters' 150th anniversary. To see photos from the "Raise the Roof" weekend, learn more about the project, including how you can take part, and read about the homeowner's unique story, click here.
Thank You For Celebrating
150 Years With Us
Whether you donated your time or money or attended an event, the Ursuline Sisters want thank everyone who took part in the year long celebration of our 150th anniversary. We publicly closed the celebrations with a special Mass and brunch on Sunday, November 2. For photos from the event, click here.
As part of the special anniversary, we're still working on a Habitat for Humanity House which is being built on the location where the Sisters first lived in 1858. It will provide a home for a family of immigrants from the Sudan.
To learn more about the Ursuline Sisters' 150 years in Louisville and our foundress, click here to see our special anniversary video.
A History of the Ursuline Sisters' Amazing Journey of 150 Years of Ministry.
The Ursuline Sisters began their ministry in Louisville, Kentucky in 1858 when three sisters from Straubing, Germany, led by Mother Salesia Reitmeier, answered a call to teach at St. Martin School. Within two weeks of their arrival, the sisters were teaching 50 students. Soon a convent and boarding school on Chestnut Street near Shelby followed and the Ursuline Sisters were asked to staff other schools. In 1881, 20 schools were in the care of the growing community of 108 sisters. By the 1960's, there were over 650 sisters serving in 13 states and in Peru, South America.
Today, Ursuline Sisters minister in 11 states and in Peru. They serve as teachers, administrators, in healthcare, pastoral and social service ministries.
In 2008, the Ursuline Sisters celebrate 150 years of ministry and continue their mission of teaching Christian living and assisting women, men and children to live more fully and to develop a personal relationship with God.
Unique Summer Program For Appalachian Children
Some West Virginia children are taking part in summer programs sponsored by A.B.L.E. Families (affirming, believing, learning, empowering). The group is headed by Ursuline Sister Janet Marie Peterworth. Our Sisters attended a concert on June 27 put on by the children who just learned to play the dulcimer and harp during a music camp. To see photos and learn more about this important ministry and how you can help, click here.
Several children demonstrate their new skills on the lap dulcimer
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The Spiritual Guidance of
Angela Merici
"Live in harmony united in one heart and one will."
~4th Counsel
This Friday - You Shop, You Save, You Help
This Friday, shopping at Just Creations not only means you'll save money
on gifts for the holidays or yourself, but it means you'll be supporting
our mission work in Peru at the same time. For details click here.
Imagine getting a night's stay and breakfast at a four star
hotel or casino for just a few dollars or a basket filled
with gift cards to shops all over
town for the same price?
Those are just some of the hundreds of prizes you can win at this year’s Marian Home Card Party hosted by the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville. To learn how to take part and about the other prizes offered, click here.
Room for Christ: An Advent Day of Reflection.
During the weeks before Christmas we are inundated with invitations to parties, to shop, to exchange
gifts, to buy, buy, buy. There is one invitation, however, that is so easy to overlook because it is often
offered in a subtle, elusive manner. It is the invitation to make room for Christ in both our hearts and lives.
Join us for a prayerful time of reflection as we attempt to notice this greatest invitation of them all and how we might respond to it. For more details click here.
Marian Home Annual Fund
The appeal, which helps provide for the care of our Sisters living at Marian Home, kicks off October 28, 2008. To learn more about this appeal and the Ursuline Sisters living at Marian Home please click here.
For details and photos from the Marian Home Annual Fund
kick-off event click here.
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