Sister Gertrude Lilly displays the two pendants she always wears: the San Damiano cross and Our Lady, Untier of Knots (an incarnation of Mary).

The sisters gathered around Sister Maria Goretti before mass at Kittay House.

Sister Evelyn does a Bollywood dance after dinner at the convent house in Yonkers.

Sister Mary plays with children at St. Benedict’s Day Nursery as part of her ministry; the sisters first opened the school in 1923 as a way to help working mothers care for their children.

Sister Rosemary at the food pantry she runs in Staten Island.

The sisters gathered together for breakfast at the mother house before attending church on Sunday.

Sister Mary and Sister Anne Okori make their way from the mother house to the Church of St. Joseph of the Holy Family.

Sister Mary Ann Baichan and Sister Mary teach Sunday school to children after mass at the Church of St. Joseph of the Holy Family.

Sister Evelyn tried on a hat and bag from a storage room in the mother house.

Sister Rosemary Onwuemene, right, and Sister Maria Goretti Mannix on Palm Sunday morning.

The sisters gather together for a post-mass meal on Palm Sunday.