Since 1633, the Daughters of Charity have served where we are needed most.
Is God Calling You to be a Sister?
Join us for “Search & Serve” Religious Vocation Discernment Retreat in May 2025!
Explore your future with us at our San Francisco Bay Area Retreat, May 21 – 26, 2025!
Search your heart about what God is asking of you.
Stay with us. Pray with us. Serve those living in poverty side-by-side with us. Housing, Meals and Daily Transportation to our Ministry Services is provided. Let us know you are interested by completing our Interest Form. We will contact you with more information about the retreat experience.
Completing this form does not register you for the retreat. For Single Catholic Women Ages 18-40.
What is God’s Dream for You?
Epiphany Center
Did you know we sponsor one of the Nation’s Best Recovery Centers?
We are so proud and grateful — for 4 years running — to be featured by Newsweek magazine as one of “America’s Best Addiction Treatment Centers 2024.”
Epiphany Center provides family-focused programs to address the traumatic stressors experienced by low-income women who face addiction, homelessness, and domestic violence. Our goal is to help families build healthier futures for themselves and their children.
OUR MINISTRIES
In the Province of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, our roots run deep. Through the years we built and staffed orphanages, schools, and medical facilities, and our ministries have adapted to the changing needs of their communities.
View Our Ministries Here
View Our Other Areas of Focus in Advocacy
Environment • Homelessness and Insecure Housing • Human Trafficking • Hunger • Immigration • Racism
Weekly Thoughts and Prayers
Week of May 18, 2025
“Our insistence that each human being is an image of God should not make us overlook the fact that each creature has its own purpose. None is superfluous. The entire material universe speaks of God’s love, his boundless affection for us. Soil, water, mountains: everything is, as it were, a caress of God.” Pope Francis
Creator God, You made each human person in your image, each of us is worthy of your boundless affection. May we always be open to finding your love and presence in all creation that surrounds us. Amen.
Transitions
In Loving Memory
Sister Mary Loretta Pitino, DC
January 16, 2025 | 88 years of age
62 years of vocation | educator
In Loving Memory
Sister Michele Randall, DC
January 2, 2025 | 91 years of age
68 years of vocation | dietician/healthcare
The Daughters of Charity are called to serve Jesus Christ in the person of the poor and the marginalized. We do this in a spirit of humility, simplicity, and charity. Motivated by the love of Christ and strengthened by a deep prayer life… we live together in community… supporting each other in our common mission of service. Besides vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience… we also make a special vow of service of the poor. These vows are non-religious, annual, and always renewable. The Catholic Church acknowledges us as a Society of Apostolic Life. Since 1852, up and down the Coast of California, the Daughters of Charity helped settle California through Health Care, Education, Religion, and Social Work.