Our Sisters

While the official Catholic Sisters Week may be over, every week is Catholic Sisters Week to us!

"The Lord arranged it beautifully. He didn't ask me about it - it just happened." Sister Xavier Linz was surrounded by sisters and family last weekend as she celebrated her 100th birthday.

With great fondness, I periodically think about Assembly Weekends in the former Baltimore Province when I was a postulant in the mid-1980s and we had an SSND version of "Saturday Night Live!" I've been imagining how wonderful it might be to experience again such engagement and stimulation at this time of our lives.

Our Sisters in Canada are embracing a particular bittersweet reality as we let go of our former Canadian Province Motherhouse. As long as we have been futuring that reality, uppermost in our hearts has been the question, “What will happen to our cemetery?"

Sister Marie Dolores is one of 11 siblings born in Buffalo, N.Y. Of the 11, Sister Marie Dolores, four of her sisters, and one brother entered religious life, with all five sisters becoming SSNDs!

This week, Sisters from Lourdes Health Care Center in Wilton, CT are moving to Ozanam Hall in Bayside, NY. We wish them all the best in their new mission and community! Please keep them in your prayers.

Sr. Barbara Valuckas, a regular contributor to the Global Sisters Report, recounts her reconnection and work in her ancestral home of Lithuania.

An amazing chain of events began when Roz Spruill “wanted to be enlightened.” Her enlightenment spread from Baltimore to McAllen, Texas, to the Comunidad Enlaces de Esperanza in Arizona, and eventually to children on the Texas and Arizona borders!