The Flame – Summer 2025 Edition

The tri-annual publication of the Cenacle Sisters NAP newsletter, The Flame comes out in February (winter/spring), June (summer), and October (autumn). We are pleased to share the 2025 Summer edition of The Flame! The mail date was June 5, 2025 (publication date preceded the papal conclave). If you’d like to be on the mail-list for […]

Habemus Papam!

With great joy, we give thanks! Just as Mary and the first disciples gathered behind locked doors in the Cenacle, the College of Cardinals, likewise behind locked doors, invoked the Advocate — the Holy Spirit. Following the descent of the Spirit, like those first friends and followers of Jesus, it is now time to act […]

A Vision for the Future — Full of Hope

Good Afternoon, Dear Friends and Neighbors! This happens to be Divine Mercy Sunday.  It seems appropriate that the Sisters of St. Joseph of Philadelphia crafted a letter to be signed and published in the Philadelphia Inquirer on this day.  They also invited congregations across North America to sign the letter with them.  After considerable conversation […]

Nuns Against Gun Violence Prayer Vigil

Join the 2nd Annual Lenten Fast with Nuns Against Gun Violence. March 5 at 10 AM Central, click the YouTube Live link below.   History Nuns Against Gun Violence was founded in April 2023 to bring together congregations of Catholic sisters to speak with a united voice against the crisis of gun violence. More than […]

Black History Month – 2025

Each February the United States celebrates Black History Month. The North American Province of the Cenacle Sisters wishes to be apart of this celebration as it continues to work, pray, and minister in a non-racist, intergenerational and intercultural way, just as Jesus Christ did. This year we would like to highlight three things. 1.) There […]

Feast Day Invitation!

The Cenacle Sisters of North America look forward to the celebration of the Feast of Our Lady of the Cenacle on Saturday June 7, 2025. Furthermore the Sisters cordially invite you to join them either online for the Eucharistic Celebration or in-person at their province location at 3800 W. Peterson Ave. The celebration begins with […]

The Flame: Winter/Spring 2025 News

The Cenacle Sisters are pleased to produce and distributed a mailed newsletter three times per year to any person who requests to be on our mail list. The newsletter provides Province/Sister life updates, ministerial programs and offerings, development news and requests, Cenacle Prayer Card Ministry information, a spiritual reflection, and other timely notes of importance. […]

First Friday – February 2025 – You’re Invited!

*{{Informal Name}}*, you are warmly invited to: First Fridays at the Shrine Dear Friends, The Christmas season is soon to end; but the winter season is here to stay.  I hope these first few days of the New Year bring Good News and joy to your hearts —and light to offset the darkness of the […]

Epiphany Greeting – 2025

*{{Informal Name}}*, you are warmly invited to: First Fridays at the Shrine Dear Friends, The Christmas season is soon to end; but the winter season is here to stay.  I hope these first few days of the New Year bring Good News and joy to your hearts —and light to offset the darkness of the […]