The Year of Our Lord 2026, marks the 800th Anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi. As Franciscans worldwide celebrate the Transitus of Francis, Ursulines would do well to embrace the occasion to deepen our awareness of the Franciscan spiritual influence in the life of St Angela Merici. Unquestionably, the Foundress of the […]

On the 12th day of Christmas, Epiphany 2026, the final Holy Door of the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope closed behind us – like the Magi, we each go home by another way, uncertain where our hope will lead us.  Our travel cohorts disband, but the pilgrimage continues. In 2022, in the midst of a […]

As Pope Francis opens the Holy Door for Jubilee 2025, the global Ursuline family commemorates the Fifth Centenary of St Angela Merici’s Holy Year pilgrimage to Rome and her memorable audience with Pope Clement VII. Her ecclesial journey also benchmarks the decade leading up to the foundation of the Company of St Ursula in 1535. […]

Pilgrim’s Guidebook Convo 2022 – 2025 update   Convo Station Outline & Index 2025 update Still experiencing the challenge and change of our 6-week virtual Pilgrimage last fall during the 2022 Ursuline Convocation?  Perhaps you are hoping to revisit one of the Stations or tap into the contemplative quiet of one of the virtual retreats.  Rejoice! The osuconvo.com website is […]

Soyez les Bienvenus! Bienvenidos a todos! Welcome, virtual Pilgrims, to the refugio of AMOR! Convocation is as much journey as gathering, and for Angela both are sacramental. The 2019 North American Ursuline Convocation was seminal for the Angela Merici Online Resources [AMOR] Project and mericistudies.org website.  As we shared our visions in table discussions and […]

 Ecology of the Heart & Laudato Si Video Laudato si, mi Signor! Be praised, my Lord!  Saint Francis’ invitation to unite with all creatures resonates with our Ursuline motto: Be Glory to the Only God.  In the spirit of Saint Angela Merici, we seek to live in harmony with all creation, and so as Ursuline […]

As part of the novena of Our Lady of the Holy Cord, on Saturday, September 18, 2021  at 7 pm, the Ursulines of Saint-Saulve will offer to the parish of Saint Géry de Valenciennes the reliquary of their martyred sisters. May the Blessed Ursuline martyrs of Valenciennes intercede for us and support us with their prayers […]

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Angeline songs:  lyrics, sheet music and recordings will be posted, as available: German Federation Media Angela songs Denise Pyles, author/composer, vocalist,  Angela Songs, sung with Mary Claire Van Orsdal, accompaniment & vocal, Louisville, KY, 1989.  New recording 2022.  Lyrics Angela’s Prayer  harmonization sung by St. Ursula Academy Concert Choir of Toledo Angela’s Story Charism Chant Like a Piazza [Siate Piacevolezza] Live in Harmony […]

Mary Cabrini Durkin of the Company of St Ursula in the United States, noted in her 1/27/20201 e-newsletter that an authentic explanation of St. Angela Merici newly appears in the 2020 edition of the Roman Missal: St. Angela ‘founded the Company of St. Ursula, endowing it with its own Rule’ and highlighting the ‘profound evangelical spirit […]