News

National Vocation Awareness Week: Jan. 9-14, 2012

CSFNs among the crowd at annual ‘Nuns’ Night’ at Chicago area theater

St. Mary’s Villa for Children & Families marks 100 years of ministry Sunday, Jan. 15

St. Leonard’s Home celebrates 65 years with a bishop’s visit on the Epiphany

Associates' celebration of the Epiphany at the CSFN provincialate

CSFNs part of Pittsburgh effort to focus attention to World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life

CSFNs exhibit at annual vocation fair in San Juan, PR

Sr. Michele Vincent Fisher a guest blogger for A Nun’s Life ministry

Peace and Justice newsletter for February

Sr. Leonille Balawajder: Nov. 24, 1916 - Jan. 29, 2012

Feb. 1: Weekly vocation reflection

Upcoming Events

Friday, Feb 3 - Feb 4, 2012
"Nun Run"/Discernment Weekend: Des Plaines, IL

Friday, Mar 2 - Mar 4, 2012
Discernment Weekend, Grand Prairie, TX

Sunday, Oct 21, 2012
HFA Alumnae Social Event, Niles, IL

Joining Nazareth

Vocations: Meet Us

Our Vocation Team

Members of the CSFN Vocation Team share a laugh during their meeting before the July 2009 Assembly at the Retreat Center at St. John's, Plymouth, MI.

From left to right, standing: Srs. Emmanuela Le, Mary Anthony Lovezzola, Mary Paul Haase, Marcelina Mikulska and Mary Jane Hahner.  Seated at her trusty laptop: Vocation Director Sr. Michele Vincent Fisher.   Not pictured: Srs. Pat Lenard, Virginia Rozich.  For more photos from the 2009 Assembly, please visit http://www.nazarethcsfn.org/news-events/photo-gallery.php?thisGalleryID=36

For more vocation photos, please click here: (gallery in progress)

The Vocation Team

Sr. Michele Vincent Fisher National Director of Vocations read more >

Sister Stories

A labor of love: Sr. Barbara Sudol explores Mystical Elements in the Poetry

Sr. Barbara Sudol loves prayer, poetry, English literature, American literature, the writings of T.S. Eliot and the spirituality of the CSFNs, not necessarily in that order.  And she has just published two books to prove it:

Mystical El... Read More >

From the Interstate to the Inner Life

Editor’s note: Sr. Mary Annette Gailey, CSFN, made her final vows in May2007 at the Nazareth Academy High School Chapel in Philadelphia.  With relatively few  women professing final vows in religious communities in the U.S. each ye... Read More >

“It’s a wonderful life”

Sr. Evelyn Marita Figueroa knew from an early age “that this was the life I wanted.”  Coming from a very religious household in Puerto Rico, she and her twin sister “would go over to the convent and help the sisters after schoo... Read More >

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