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Prayers for the Christmas season

 Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet

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As we embrace the Christmas season, we are reminded of the hope and joy that Jesus’ birth brings to the world. In preparation for the birth of Christ, our sisters in Albany and Los Angeles are sharing their beautiful, prayerful traditions that spread love and compassion far and wide.

Christmas Novena

Los Angeles

In Los Angeles, our sisters gather to pray the beautiful Christmas Novena, beginning on December 16. As a part of this prayerful tradition, our sisters in LA warmly invite you to send your special intentions, concerns or needs, which will be included in the heartfelt novena prayers.

Albany

A woman with white hair places an ornament on a Christmas tree

Our sisters in Albany send out Christmas ornaments every year for people to write their prayer intentions for the season. When the ornaments are returned, our sisters adorn their Christmas trees with the prayer intentions.

With these ornaments, our sisters lift up the prayer intentions throughout the season of Christmas in liturgies and personal prayer.

The prayer intention ornaments are sent out at the beginning of December. If you have not received a Christmas prayer ornament from our sisters in Albany and would like to, please contact the Office of Mission Advancement at 518-783-3604.

May Christmas blessings surround you and your loved ones, filling your hearts with peace and joy throughout the year.

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The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet are a congregation of Catholic sisters. We, and those who share our charism and mission, are motivated in all things by our profound love of God and our dear neighbors. We seek to build communities and bridge divides between people. Since our first sisters gathered in 1650, our members have been called to “do all things of which women are capable.” The first sisters of our congregation arrived in St. Louis, Missouri in 1836, and we now have additional locations in St. Paul, Albany, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Japan and Peru. Today, we commit to respond boldly to injustice and dare to be prophetic.

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