The Company of St. Ursula in the United States

09/14/2026

After the Mass and ceremony, we hosted Heather's and Rachael's families and friends for lunch.

09/13/2026

Heather and Rachael made their consecration for life in the Felician Sisters' chapel in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania. What a beautiful and happy and holy occasion!

09/06/2026

Places to pray

09/06/2026

Our annual meeting in the USA is being held in Baden, Pennsylvania, this weekend, in the Trinity House on the grounds of the Sisters of St. Joseph motherhouse.

09/01/2026

The world's newest Company, in Madagascar, is featured in our recent newsletter. Link to it at the bottom of this page: https://companyofstursula.org/ If you would like to receive this brief monthly newsletter, you can sign up on the same page.

08/31/2026

We were represented among several hundred people of faith standing in solidarity with Haitian refugees Sunday in Springfield, Ohio. Demonstrators from many parts of Ohio (and elsewhere) lined up outside churches attended by Haitians, where they now fear to gather.

08/25/2026

Beatrice and Phanice were admitted to the Company last week in the Group of Kenya, to begin their initial formation. The Group (now 9) had made a spiritual retreat at the Carmelite monastery this week. Today they were joined by friends and family and four inquirers for the ceremony and the celebration afterwards.

08/24/2026

Two new members, Beatrice and Phanice, were received into the Company's Group in Kenya on Friday. We all rejoice!

08/16/2026

Compassion, service, JOY.... Catholic Sisters find a new mission as residents in a Lutheran assisted-living center: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/nyregion/last-nuns-new-york-city.html?ae=oa&campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20260816&instance_id=180437&nl=the-morning®i_id=261610563&segment_id=224808&user_id=913d768e61150d83896f050f241054e0
And look at all those Irish surnames!

As convents are closing all over, the sisters are facing the end of their lives together — and they have brought the party to an assisted living center in the suburbs.

08/15/2026

"The Assumption of Mary [Feast August 15] testifies that the human person is not split between body and soul, but is a living, breathing, spirited whole, wholly loved, wholly blessed, wholly redeemed by God." (John Klassen, OSB, quoted in Give Us This Day)
Painting by Fra Angelico (1395-1455), portraying Jesus' disciples around Mary's deathbed (lower register). Invisible to them, Jesus (center) lifts her in his arms to take her to heaven (upper register) welcomed by angels. Painted on a reliquary