DONATE NOW MEMBERS Facebook Instagram Phone Email YouTube Home Ministry Vocations Earth & Justice Support Us Prayer Association Associates Announcements News and Current Events Happy Thanksgiving!! Thanksgiving is the time for expressing gratitude to others, and especially to God. We’re grateful that you have remembered us, especially during National Gratitude Month. Your generosity ensures that our Sisters are able to continue to do great work in our ministries and local communities. It assists us in taking care of those who are retired. You enable us to continue the mission of our foundress, Venerable Nano Nagle, in caring for the people of God. May you and your family enjoy a blessed Thanksgiving. Be assured of our prayers. General Chapter Statement The Focus of the Chapter of Affairs was to decide our direction statement for the next six years. We prayerfully discerned and decided on the following commitment: In the spirit of our foundress Nano Nagle, Presentation Sisters and Associates commit ourselves to address the needs of women and children, especially as they are impacted by economic, environmental, and racial inequity. During the Chapter, the Sisters joined their voices with that of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in expressing serious concerns over accounts of human rights violations against women and girls during the takeover in Afghanistan by Taliban forces. The Sisters urge the international community to speak with one voice in condemning this violence and upholding the hard-won rights of Afghan women and girls. Who We Are The Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women. We carry out our mission of love and service through our many ministries with God’s people, especially poor women and children. In 1997, the Sisters of the Presentation of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and the Sisters of the Presentation of Newburgh, New York united to form one congregation now based in New Windsor, New York. Today our Sisters work in education, pastoral ministry, health care, and social services in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. We are part of a worldwide network of 3000 Presentation Sisters and Presentation Associates through the International Presentation Association. Nano Nagle Mural, Dingle, Ireland Our Story Our Beginnings The Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary were founded in Ireland in 1775 by Nano Nagle. She felt she was called by God to bring the light of faith to the poor children of Cork. The Penal Laws of the time forbade any form of Catholic instruction in Ireland, but Nano Nagle was willing to risk imprisonment and disgrace for the sake of the Gospel. Visiting the sick and homebound by night along Cork’s cobbled streets, she became known as the “Lady With the Lantern”. In time she gathered other women to form a new society of women religious dedicated to the service of the poor. Nano Nagle’s small band of women, originally named the Society of Charitable Instruction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, later became known as the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and Newburgh, New York In September, 1874, twelve brave Presentation Sisters from Ireland, led by Mother Joseph Hickey, responded to an invitation to teach the children of poor Irish immigrants at Saint Michael’s parish in New York City. Because many of the children’s parents had died, St. Michael’s soon opened an orphanage on Staten Island, also staffed by Presentation Sisters. In 1884, this became the home of the newly etablished Sisters of the Presentation of Staten Island. In 1886, Mother Magdalen Keating set out from Staten Island with a small group of Sisters to begin a new foundation in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The Sisters eventually opened schools and other ministries in other areas of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. In 1921, Presentation Sisters from St. Michael’s purchased property near the city of Newburgh, New York. Later this site, Mount Saint Joseph, became the motherhouse of the Sisters of the Presentation of Newburgh. In July, 1997, after six years of study and preparation, the Fitchburg and Newburgh Presentation congregations became one. If you wish to see all of our Vocation Videos, please click here. Memorial Liturgy for Sr. Elizabeth Fortune Presentation Sisters Wall Introduction of the New Leadership Team & Commitment Statement Conference of Presentation Sisters - Sparks from the Past Legacy of Nano Nagle Interested in learning more about our mission? Contact us! 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