Little Sisters Of The Poor St Joseph’s Care Home Manchester

08/12/2025

Today we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception.

Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
Amen. 🙏🙏

07/12/2025

Today we light the candle of Peace on our Advent wreath.

Heavenly Father, we come to You seeking the peace that only comes from You.
We pray You will bring peace and unity to all nations, especially to all our troubled nations.

Bless all who carry this peace light and all who will receive it, that your peace may dwell in their hearts and homes.

Remember Advent is the season, Jesus is the reason. 🙏🙏🙏

05/12/2025

Christmas Carols. 🎄

Thank you to Fr Samuel, Fr Armand and the ladies from St Joseph’s parish, Longsight for a lovely evening of Christmas Carols.

Another joyful evening, everyone joining in the singing, just one big family.

We thank God for blessing us with such wonderful people. 🙏🙏

04/12/2025

Christmas wishes from the children of St Stephen's Primary School in Droylsden.

04/12/2025

A morning visit from St Stephen's Primary School. 👱‍♀️🙎‍♂️🙎‍♀️🙎‍♂️

It was a pleasure to welcome Mrs Leigh and children from year 6 of St Stephen's school in Droylsden this morning.
Each pupil recited some lovely pieces of Christmas poetry. Our residents loved it and especially afterwards meeting and chatting to the children.

A visit to see our beautiful Chapel and a little prayer together. Time then for some refreshments and each pupil received a Christmas card from Mother Anna.

The children finished off with singing Christmas wishes and afterwards Mother Anna offered thanks to the children and the Sisters sang for all.

A really happy and beautiful morning, we truly appreciate the visit from St Stephen's. The children were a delight and a credit to their school and families.
It was their first visit but we know for sure it won't be their last.
We look forward to seeing you again in 2026. 🙏🙏🙏

02/12/2025

Our heartfelt gratitude to Jesslyn from Indonesia who is a student at Manchester University and her friend Shirane from South Africa for their very generous donation of various items of food. Our chef was very happy.

It was at a Rosary Rally at the Hidden Gem that the Sisters first met and chatted with the two girls. They were keen to visit St Joseph's, see the home and meet the residents.

They really enjoyed their visit on Sunday and the residents loved chatting to them.
Thank you for your kindness and thoughtfulness, we really do appreciate it.
We look forward to seeing you soon again.

02/12/2025

Nothing like a bit of morning exercise to work up the appetite for dinner.
Well done ladies. 👏👏

30/11/2025

Advent, four weeks of preparation .

A time for renewal, deep reflection , longing and repentance leading up to the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day.
Through prayer, acts of charity and quite reflection we can open our hearts and make room for Jesus

Today we light the first candle on our Advent wreath, the candle of Hope. We can have hope because God is faithful and will keep all the promises made to us. Our hope comes from God. 🙏🙏🙏

28/11/2025

Afternoon tea. ☕️☕️☕️🍰🧁🍷

Our residents really enjoyed their Mad Hatters themed afternoon tea party. Tasty cakes, wine, music and good conversation.

28/11/2025

Today our Holy Father Pope Leo X1V visited our Little Sisters care home in Istanbul . What an honour and blessing for the Sisters, staff and residents.

You can watch the visit on this link. 🙏🙏🙏

Watch live as Pope Leo XIV visits the Little Sisters of the Poor nursing home in Istanbul.

27/11/2025

Please keep our community in Istanbul in your prayers as they prepare for the pastoral visit tomorrow from His Holiness Pope Leo X1V.

I’m sure it will be very emotional but a privileged, blessed and joyous occasion for our Sisters, staff and residents .

God bless Our Holy Father and keep him safe.