The House of Mercy Fund

Mercy Week is an annual celebration of Mercy Day on September 24th. It was on this date in 1827 that Catherine McAuley, Foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, and her early companions established the first House of Mercy on Baggot Street in Dublin, Ireland. This week is an opportunity to celebrate Catherine McAuley, our Mercy identity and heritage, and the many expressions of Mercy as a Saint Joseph’s College Community.

This year the focus of Mercy Week is to provide the Saint Joseph’s community with an opportunity to engage with and reflect on the Critical Concern of Anti-Racism by highlighting important concepts related to this critical concern.

Yes! Many of the Mercy Week activities are virtual this year and open to the entire SJC community. For more information and to view the complete schedule click here.

Students who meet all of the following requirements are eligible for this assistance:

• They must be enrolled at Saint Joseph’s College;
• They qualify as low income individuals (go here for a definition of “low income”);
• They are from an historically underrepresented community.

A historically underrepresented community is any group that has been denied access and/or suffered past institutional discrimination in the United States. The result is an inequitable representation of these groups in common pursuits such as education, jobs, and housing, resulting in marginalization for some groups and individuals and not for others, relative to the number of individuals who are members of the population involved. For the purposes of this scholarship, historically underrepresented communities include, but are not limited to: Hispanics/Latinos, African Americans, Native Americans, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders, Asian Americans, those of two or more races (when one or more are from the preceding categories in this list), and those who qualify for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).