By Abigail Bodeau Less than an hour after landing in Albuquerque, I found myself walking through Costco with two Little Sisters whose white veils fly when they stand near the air vents. Walking two steps behind the Sisters, I hardly said a word, in large part because in all […]

written by Rose Achey   As a young person, I never really thought about what old age meant. Sure, I knew it meant slowing down, forgetting things, using a walker, wearing glasses and a hearing aide, but these things merely describe old age and some encompass what it means. I […]

    For the last six years, the youth group from St. Mary Magdalen in Gilbert, Arizona has come on a “Mission Trip” in which they do services for us. This year, there are about 40 young people involved and they did service projects in the diocese. Villa Guadalupe usually […]

  The “Spring into Service” program started several years ago. In the program, young women can work in one of our Homes and at the same time to learn about the Little Sisters of the Poor, working with the Sisters and staff in the Charism of St. Jeanne Jugan. This […]

One of our Navajo employees raises goats, which recently had many babies. They are beginning to get a little bigger but she brought in 15 “young” goats for the Residents to see. First she took them out of her truck one by one. The Residents and Sisters could not help […]

Two weeks after Easter, at the birthday party for April at our Home, the theme was Easter Hats! These hats were not your ordinary “Easter Hats.” Each department in the Home made hats and displayed them for all to see. At the end of the party, a department member modeled […]