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Meet Sr. Sharlet Ann Wagner, CSC
Sister Sharlet Ann Wagner, CSC, a Sister of the Holy Cross, is an immigration lawyer by profession and has extensive experience reflecting and preaching on God’s word. Sr. Sharlet’s ministry experiences have focused on working with newcomers to the United States as she has worked with immigrants in Utah, California, Indiana and now in Silver Spring, Maryland. Sister Sharlet currently ministers with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington. As executive director of the Newcomer Network, a department of Catholic Charities, Sister Sharlet provides strategic leadership on services to immigrants and manages operations and staff. Sister Sharlet served on her Congregation’s General Council at the motherhouse in South Bend, Indiana for two terms and served in the presidency of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) from 2017-2020. A lover of history, she enjoys spending her free time visiting the many historical sites in the Washington, D.C. area.

Sister Sharlet Ann Wagner, CSC, Executive Director, Catholic Chariities, Newcomer Network

Sister Sharlet Ann Wagner has dedicated her time and experiences to ministry efforts, which have fueled her passion for connecting with strangers and helping those less fortunate. Sister Sharlet is a lawyer who has worked on immigration issues in California and Utah. She has provided pro bono immigration services at various detention centers and worked with detention personnel to establish services guidelines. In the 1990s, she completed a summer internship with Catholic Charities’ Immigration Legal Services. This experience was a defining moment in her decision to pursue immigration law and actively advocate for the treatment of migrants and refugees. In her previous role with the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross, she served as a co-director of the congregation’s International Leadership Development Program and was a liaison to Holy Cross Sisters in the African region. As executive director of Newcomer Network, Sister Sharlet provides strategic leadership on service and practices, oversees a collaboration of services with other Catholic Charities programs and partners, and manages operations and staff.

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PRAYER TO ST. JUDE
Most holy Apostle St. Jude, faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the name of the traitor who delivered the beloved Master into the hands of His enemies has caused you to be forgotten by many, but the Church honors and invokes you universally as the patron of hopeless cases, of things despaired of. Pray for me who am so miserable; make use, I implore you, of this particular privilege accorded to you, to bring visible and speedy help, where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need, that I may receive the consolations and succor of Heaven in all my necessities, tribulations and sufferings, particularly (here make your request), and that I may bless God with you and all the elect forever.

I promise you, O blessed St. Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favor, and I will never cease to honor you as my special and powerful patron and to do all in my power to encourage devotion to you. Amen.

Say one Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father.
Saint Jude, Apostle, martyr and relative of our Lord Jesus Christ, of Mary, and Joseph, intercede for us.