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Sister Joan spent 23 years, 1957 to 1980, in Puerto Rico at two missions, Notre Dame High School, Caguas, and the Academy of Perpetual Help in Miramar. She was a superb English and Latin teacher.
Sister Marie Denise taught and was in Pastoral Ministery at the St. Francis of Assisi Parish in New Britain, Connecticut from 1970 until 2016. She loved the areas nature and beauty. She planned and directed the Adopted Grandparents Program at Brittany Farms Rest Home. Marie Denise also loved her Irish heritage and visited her father’s relatives in Ireland many times; she felt great happiness in being with them.
Sister Rosemary was a fiercely independent, no nonsense woman, Because she loved and enjoyed life, Rosemary believed that you should “get on with it” and live your life.
In death, we say our ultimate human yes to God. Trusting in God’s power to bring us to the fullness of life, we conclude our earthly life with an act of worship: in the action of death we proclaim God as God, and ourselves as God’s creatures. We are called by God and sent by the community; we go in joy!
- You Are Sent, Constitution of the School Sisters of Notre Dame
