Help us remember our Sisters.
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!
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!
Kathleen, the first daughter of Terence and Rosemary Lloyd Maguire, joined five brothers at her birth on April 22, 1923 in Yonkers, N.Y. Terence and Rosemary were New York natives and of "Irish Catholic stock." Kathleen was baptized at Sacred Heart Church, Yonkers.
Irene Bopp was born in Chicago on March 15, 1924, the middle child of John Bopp and Catherin Breight, both immigrants from the German-speaking area of Russia. As she wrote, "Growing up in a happy German immigrant home with two sisters and six brothers was, for me, a very special blessing.
Jane Joyce was born in Chicago on March 5, 1927 to Patrick Joyce and Bridget Heneghan. She and her twin Margaret Therese were the seventh and eighth of ten children. She was baptized at St. Benedict Church. Her autobiography gives a good taste of what her childhood was like:
