Amazon Smile

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The Gifts that Keep on Giving! Support the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles with every Amazon purchase you make! When you shop at smile.amazon.com, Amazon will donate .5% of your purchase to the Carmelite Sisters at no additional cost. Follow...

Veterans Day Celebration

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We thank all our Veterans for your dedication and self-giving service to God, your country, your family and friends. May you be abundantly blessed by Our Lord who has been with you all throughout your life and continues to guide you to a greater freedom in Him, who...

Honoring our Veterans

Blog, Our Family

Having recently celebrated Veteran’s Day, we’d like to take some time and space to highlight one of our beloved veterans whom we are blessed to have with us in our Santa Teresita family: Frank Meza. The year was 1950, and Christmas and the New Year were coming on...

Going Home

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A Day in the Life of Santa Teresita…Our Neighborhood of CareOur Lord seems to take our dear residents home in threes. The third one was called home this past Monday. I was praying Alex would not die alone. He was in the hospital and his only son was out of the...

O Come to Our Senior Prom

Blog, Our Family, Poetry Corner: From Our Residents

The Poetry CornerOriginal Poetry by Residents”O Come to Our Senior Prom”By: Betty MartinO Come to our Senior PromRemember those good old days,The golden age of HollywoodWill ever more be praised.O come to our Senior Prom,Trot out your dancing shoes,Dust...

Mothers…God’s Greatest Gift

Blog, Our Family, Poetry Corner: From Our Residents

The Poetry CornerOriginal Poetry by ResidentsA Mother’s heart is poised with loveAs greatest gift from our Father aboveFull of kindness, forgiving again and againShe carries all sorrows, hiding all strainGreat wisdom shines from her ageless eyesBeaming strength...