Postulant Limétèze Pierre-Gilles Accepted To SSND Novitiate
September 12, 2008
Limétèze Pierre-Gilles, became a novice of the School Sisters of Notre Dame at a ceremony on the evening of Sept. 12, 2008, at Villa Notre Dame in Wilton, Conn. Her Haitian family was present, having traveled from Fla., where they now reside. Over 100 School Sisters of Notre Dame of the Atlantic-Midwest Province welcomed her as Provincial Leader S. Kathleen Cornell invited her to begin her two years of formation that will lead to her making her first vows as a woman religious.
The invitation was the culmination of her year of postulancy, which she experienced in Brooklyn, N.Y. In both Creole and English, Limétèze spoke of her desire to enter more deeply into a relationship with God, a hope she had expressed in the theme she chose for the reception: “Avance au Large,” or “Go into the Deep.”
Limétèze will experience this time of spiritual deepening at the SSND motherhouse in St. Louis, Mo., where she will live with two other novices from Dallas, Tex. and Mankato, Minn. Limétèze became acquainted with the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the Palm Beach Diocese of Fla., where she met sisters ministering to the needy St. Ann Parish in Lake Park, Fla.