Oct
07
2009
- Our Lady of the Rosary
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The feast of Our Lady of the Rosary was instituted to honor Mary for the Christian victory over the Turks at Lepanto on October 7, 1571. Pope St. Pius V and all Christians had prayed the Rosary for victory.
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Collect: Lord, fill our hearts with your love, and as you revealed to us by an angel the coming of your Son as man, so lead us through his suffering and death to the glory of his resurrection, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Today is also our Sister, Sister M. Noreen’s feast day. Please join us in prayer for her and her intentions today. On a Sister’s feast day & birthday our communities’ custom is to each offer one day of prayers, works, joys, & sufferings for the Sister; it is called a “Franciscan day”.
Sister Noreen, may our Lord grant you every grace and consolation on this your feast day. Our prayers are with you!
Blessings on all who read this!
Sister M. Veronica, OSF
May
15
2009
    A lot has been going on here. On May 3rd we went to the Cathedral to pre-view the video “Rosary Stars” and hear testimony from one of it’s lead actors, J. Omar Castro. While there we prayed the Glorious mysteries of the Roasry as a congregation and some of us went up to the choir loft to sing, as you can
see… Of course some Sisters stayed in thre pews with their feet planted firmly on the ground… You know who you are… Just kidding. We all had a wonderful time at the Cathedral and afterward went to the Bishop Sheen Center for a reception that followed. If you’d like to read the entire article in the Catholic Post, click
here. (as well as a picture of us singing in the choir loft)
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    On Saturday, May 9th we went out to the Motherhouse to celebrate the Jubilees of two of our Sisters - Sister Mary Ruth(70 years) and Sister M. Bernarda(60 years). After the Jubilee Mass in which both Sisters renewed their vows we celebrated with a festive meal in the Multipurpose room. Sister Bernarda had several family members here all the way from Germany and Sister Mary Ruth had a neice and her husband in attendance.
L to R: Sr. M. Bernarda, Bishop Daniel Jenky, and Sr. Mary Ruth