Inspired by our founding sisters more than 360 years ago, we continue to respond with loving service to the urgent needs of our neighbors. We have been dedicated to the exercise of “all of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy of which woman is capable and which will most benefit the dear neighbor.” In this founding spirit, we engage in works of compassion, healing, and reconciliation.
We serve in schools and universities, hospitals and hospices, prisons and parishes, and social service agencies. We are educators, consultants, attorneys, spiritual directors, artists, chaplains, nurses, gardeners, social workers and counselors. At our Motherhouse in Baden, we care for our retired Sisters, many of whom remain active through volunteer activities and spiritual support.
Ever mindful of the most poor and vulnerable, we live and work to bring all people into union with God and others in Western Pennsylvania, throughout the United States and around the world where our global family of Sisters of St. Joseph serve.