Sister Mary O'Brien, SC, entered eternal life on Aug. 16, 2026, in her 76th year as a Sister of Charity of New York. She devoted 38 years to teaching, from elementary classrooms in Manhattan and the Bronx to high schools in the Bahamas and Rye.

Cardinal Dolan explains the feast of St. John Eudes, who popularized the devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Bishop Edmund Whalen looks to St. John Eudes to help understand the readings.