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When she was five, Mary Helen started first grade at St. Francis School in Union City, New Jersey. She wrote, “At first I was afraid of the ladies dressed in black and white, learning later that they were sisters…
Sister Evelyn enjoyed her 80th Jubilee celebration with family and friends in May 2018. Pauline had a great love of nature, delighting in the animals, birds, and flowers. As a youngster, she desired to be a sister and professed her vows in 1938.
Margaret Kenyon was born on June 9, 1933, in Teaneck, New Jersey, she started high school at St. Luke’s, but went to Holy Angels Academy as an aspirant for the next three years, graduating in 1951. “My mother was a ‘12 year Angel’; I graduated 25 years to the day after she did,” Margaret wrote in her autobiography.
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
