Search Results for label/Rite of Renewal

...‘I had to comb my ratted hair out many times in your presence, more times than I care to admit.  However, when you told me how proud you were to see me working as a Candy Striper at Loretto Hospital it was something I never forgot.’ “Here is my personal favorite, “This birthday greeting comes from the long ago 1964 freshman who transferred out of Guerin to the public high school and back into Guerin—all in the same day! You...

...harvest has come.’” — Mark 4:26-32 Many of us who write commentaries check with our Archives department to see if they have any information about the deceased sister. When I did that for Sister Jane, I was told she had a Hollinger box. It seems sisters who have a Hollinger box have more material than will fit in the traditional manila file folders. I was led to the storage area for these boxes, some of which were about 2-and-a-half inches...

...with us this morning to honor their aunt, the last of the seven siblings to pass into eternity. Mary Cecile loved school and the nuns, even though her third-grade teacher insisted that she, normally left-handed, learn to write with her right hand. When she was 9, her oldest sister, Germaine, at age 25, left to enter the novitiate of the Sisters of Providence, going on to become Sister Mary Germaine. Of course, this provided the occasion to introduce little Bernadette...

...Lansdowne; Ascension, Halethorpe; and Holy Redeemer, College Park. Her favorite missions were in Florida at Rosarian Academy, West Palm Beach, and St. Joseph, Bradenton. “For 17 years Sister Annette Cecile ministered at Immaculata Prep in Washington, D.C. These were difficult years with the closing of the school, but she was able to let students and families know of her love and concern for them and remained faithful and connected while she served as coordinator of the alumnae association from 1997...

...this was Sue’s favorite quote from Mother Theodore. How blessed we are that Ray and Florence Pietrus decided that their first-born child should take piano lessons. Thank you, Ray, for your part in nurturing Sue’s great gift of music and for the years and Saturdays you spent chauffering Susan and your other daughter, Nancy, from your south side Chicago home to the local Catholic school for piano lessons with Sister Marie. It seems to us that you and Flo and...

...school environment in 1983 and served as a librarian and tutor at St. Patrick, Fort Wayne, Ind., and St. Lawrence, Indianapolis. She returned to the Woods in 1989 and volunteered in several areas. “Sister Mary Esther was known to be an excellent teacher, spontaneous, but always organized and well prepared. A former student from the 1950s wrote to her after a recent class reunion, ‘You had no favorite pupils, but you were our favorite teacher,’” shared Sister Alexa. “The Gospel...