Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Beirne, Mary Helen, author

Title Ready for any good work : history of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia 1944-1999 / Mary Helen Beirne
Published Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, [2015]
©2015

Copies

Description 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates )
Contents Forging our identity : 1650-1944 -- Embracing our identity : 1944-1965 -- Rediscovering our mission : 1965-1969 -- Renewing our mission : 1969-1979 -- Expanding our vision : 1980-1989 -- Deepening our vision : 1989-1999 -- Timeline : 1944-1999 -- General Councils : 1944-1999
Summary This new history of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, focuses on the growth and evolution of the Congregation through the years 1944-1999. This book attempts to look at the Congregation, an ecclesial group of Catholic women religious, from the perspectives of spirituality, ministry, and governance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed
Subject Sisters of St. Joseph (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.) -- History -- 20th century
SUBJECT Sisters of St. Joseph (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.) fast
Subject Catholics -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
Nuns -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century
RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
Nuns
Catholics
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021676254
ISBN 9780761865858
0761865853