Sister Pauline turns 100 The weekend of December 30 was a special one here at the Jeanne Jugan Center. We celebrated our Sister Marie Pauline’s 100th birthday. The festivities started with a party with the craft volunteers on Friday. Many of them have worked with her the 30 years she […]

Dell’s Elves For the second year, ten employees from RSA Security, a division of Dell Computing, recently came to the Jeanne Jugan Center to help the Little Sisters wrap Christmas gifts for our Residents. We fondly call these volunteers Dell’s Elves, and they certainly worked like elves, wrapping 75-80 gifts. […]

Breakfast with Santa Saturday was our second annual Breakfast with Santa. Everyone had so much fun, that this is bound to be a new yearly tradition. Mark Durkin graciously returned this year as Santa, and spent the morning visiting with Residents and posing for literally hundreds of pictures. The halls […]

Visitation Volunteers Last month we were “visited” by a great group of teachers and staff (about 40 in all!) from Visitation Parish School. And they arrived bearing gifts – boxes and boxes of toiletries that the school had collected for us. Just as precious as these much-needed items, was the […]

CMSWR Regional Workshop Last month we were happy to host a gathering of area women religious here at the Jeanne Jugan Center. The CMSWR (Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious) is a collaborative group that we Little Sisters, as well as several other orders, are members of. Periodically, members […]

Bingo! Ahh … the classics. Whether it’s certain movies, music, fine literature, or games, some things have stood the test of time and bring people as much joy today as they did to past generations. Of all the various activities offered at our Home, the crowd favorite among our Residents […]