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In-between Feasts
Sr. Magdolna Kővári SSS Despite the leap year, the time between the two major feasts of the liturgical year will be very short this year. We have barely completed the Christmas cycle...
Closing of the SSS 100th Anniversary Year
Despite the intense winter cold, with snow covering the church grounds, the afternoon of Saturday, January 20th, 2024, was filled with a joyful warmth which emanated from the...
Closing Celebration of the Jubilee Year
Jubilee celebrations in Buffalo
The mass was celebrated in the Blessed Sacrament Church by the Bishop of Buffalo, Msgr. Michael W. Fisher, who in his homily recalled the importance of the first social encicle, Rerum...
Celebration in Csíkszereda
Our Lady of Ransom is a traditional feast in our community: it has always marked the beginning of the work year, so it is our Veni Sancte feast. In Miercurea Ciuc, Romania this has...
Colours of the Summer
We are concluding an August very rich in events that were meant to bring us into the heart of what jubilee means. In the first part of the month we gathered for a community-wide jubilee retreat in the retreat house of Mariabesnyő in Hungary: 80 sisters gathered from each of our districts and…
Pentecost in the Districts
Pentecost is the principal liturgical celebration of our community: it is on this feast when candidates start novitiate, when our Sisters take or renew vows, and when we greet those...
Celebration in Cluj-Napoca/Kolozsvár
On May 20th the Romanian District of the Society of the Sisters of Social Service held their jubilee celebration in Cluj, where they were joined by Sisters from the neighboring...
Celebrations in Romania
After the celebrations in the Hungarian district had been concluded with a solemn mass in the St. Stephen Basilica on Sunday, May 14, on Monday, May 15 we set on the road with the...
The address of the General Moderator at the conference
It was a deeply moving experience this morning when, for the hundredth time, the Minutes were read out together in the presence of the Sisters of the Hungarian District as well as the...
We celebrated our 100th Birthday
On May 11th in the University Church, Budapest we celebrated the feast of Blessed Sr. Sara Salkaházy. It has become a tradition to commemorate her with Holy Mass followed by a prayer...
Easter greeting of our jubilee year
Christ yesterday and today, the beginning and the end, Alpha and Omega; all time belongs to him, and all the ages; to him be glory and power, through every age for ever. Amen. (Easter...
Address of the General Moderator at the jubilee celebration in El Cobre
Estamos con gran gratitud en nuestros corazones aquí, en las raíces del Distrito Cubano al conmemorar el centenario de nuestra fundación. En la fecha actual, 12 de mayo, cada grupo de...
Jubilee in El Cobre
The first celebration in this series took place in the Cuban District on March 12, 2023, when the Cuban Sisters gathered in the Basilica of El Cobre, the place where the Society took...
Our associates celebrate with us
It was a great joy for us that many of our associates could also join us on January 22nd for the opening celebration of our jubilee year in the Archabbey of Pannonhalma. Associates...
Holy Mass at the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma
After Pope Francis, had opened our Jubilee Year we started our jubilee year celebration series with a Holy Mass at the Benedictine Archabbey of Pannonhalma, Hungary presided by Abbot...
Pope Francis received the Superiors of the Sisters of Social Service on January 20 th 2023
Pope Francis received the Superiors of the Sisters of Social Service on January 20th 2023 on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of our Foundation. This was a great gift and...
Events of the Jubilee Year 2023
Opening: Mass of Thanksgiving for the 100 Years: January 22, 2023 in the Benedictine Abbey of Pannonhalma, Hungary Cuban District: March 13, 2023 – Solemn Mass in the Basilica...
Announcement of the Jubilee Year
Dear Friends! Our hearts are filled with gratitude, joy, and hope as we enter the year 2023, our jubilee year marking the 100th anniversary of foundation of the Society of the Sisters...
Remembering Blessed Sr. Sara
Every year on December 27 we commemorate the death of Blessed Sara Salkaházi, SSS. Wego to the memorial plaque on the banks of the Danube, which marks the spot where she wasshot into...
Christmas
To all our friends and readers we wish the peace of Christmas which can be born in us from God’s self-emptying love. May this peace fill our hearts, our lives, our families, our neighbourhoods, our nations, all our world.
Visitation in Our Romanian District
The task of the General Council is to regularly visit the districts. We spent the past two weeks in Romania. Our sisters held their district assembly in Cluj/ Kolozsvár on the last days of
August. The closing mass took place in the ancient little church…
Summer Events
August usually means vacation time – however, for us, the General Council it generally means work. It is the time when we can have our international gatherings.
The month started with our annual planning week…
Our Pentecost Celebrations
In each of our districts the Sisters of Social Service celebrated Pentecost with great joy and thanksgiving. We gave thanks for our charism, for our Society, for the gift of vocation,...
Spirit-filled Pentecost, Come!
“It is the joy-giving obligation of each Sister of Social Service to live deeply from the presence of the Holy Spirit; to be attentive to the Spirit’s inspirations; to respond to...
Preparing for Pentecost
Preparing for Pentecost
o the Holy Spirit, Pentecost is our central feast…
Plenary Assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG)
On May 6 th , the Plenary Assembly of the International Union of Superiors General (UISG) came to
an end.
Wishing you new life and new beginnings in the power and joy of the Risen One
Wishing you new life and new beginnings in the power and joy of the Risen One
“Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
“Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. Thus they persecuted the prophets who were before you.”
“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
The sixth part of reflection series of the general moderator on the Beatitudes