Sister Rosemary Borntrager

Sister Rosemary Borntrager

Sister Rosemary, formerly Sister Rose Cecile, has been a Sister of Providence since 1950. She ministered many years as a teacher and principal. She also ministered as an assistant superintendent in the Diocese of Joliet Schools Office and as Diocesan Personnel Director. She has served in the Congregation’s Archives Department and as General Secretary for the Leadership Team. Currently, she ministers at Linden Leaf Gifts.

A tangible reminder of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

As the tourist/pilgrim continues through the Shrine area after leaving the Shrine Chapel, she or he seems sent out by Saint Mother Theodore “as birds from the nest” into the world of today and is introduced to our various ministries. At the very end as they are leaving there we all are – Sisters and Associates – waving goodbye to them. They also are being sent out to carry on Saint Mother Theodore’s mission and the ministry in their own lives and their own areas of the world. Linden Leaf Gifts gives them the opportunity to take back with them a tangible reminder of this experience.

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A doll named Susie, aka Sister Mary Rose

By Sister Rosemary Borntrager Feast of the Visitation May 31, 1990 Forty years ago in the winter of 1949-1950 I received a pair of black doll stockings. That’s how it all began. In the days before Barbie dolls, it was…