Sister Kane dedicated many of her summers away from school in ministry to migrant farmworkers, in the dioceses of Saginaw, Michigan, Kalamazoo, Michigan and Raleigh, North Carolina. She approached everything she did with the heart of an educator and was committed to serving the poor, especially immigrants. To read more about Evelyn's life, click on the link under her picture.
While at Maryville, she also served as a college counselor, a position she found life giving and more suitable to her gifts than administration or classroom teaching. In this work, she found a home for herself. In addition to being certified in clinical pastoral education, Tita also received certification as a CPE supervisor. At the conclusion of her work at the Regis Retirement Center in St.
In 1981, Sister Villeré began a social services ministry as director at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Center in New Orleans, where she remained until 1992. She spent three years providing hospitality to visitors at the U.S. provincial offices in St. Louis, before accepting an invitation to serve in pastoral care at Oakwood in 1994. There she was able to indulge her love of art through pen and ink drawings and watercolors. She shared her talents not only by giving away much of her artwork, but by teaching art classes to the residents.
Angela worked for the State of New York for over 30 years, assisting homeless and low-income individuals and families.
During her nine years in St. Louis, Sister Stewart taught art to women incarcerated at the St. Louis County Jail and served as a prison chaplain and art therapist. She was also active in St. Anselm’s parish social justice programs. To read more about Mary's life, click on the link under her picture.
During the spring of 1994 when I was on the probation team, I loved to go to the top of the Villa Lante garden to pray, looking over the rooftops of Rome to the mountains beyond Frascati. Much closer in my field of vision. was Regina Coeli prison, literally across the street from the Villa Lante, described in a recent article as "The Black Hole of Rome" its foreboding appearing to be devoid of human life other than the guards who walked back and forth along. the top of the walls and the occasional shouts when a goal was scored during a soccer game in one of the inner courtyards.
The Thensted Center was established in 1982 to respond to the needs of the rural poor in St. Landry parish Louisiana. founded in the tiny town of Grand Coteau under the guidance of Sr Margaret Hoffman, RSCJ and named in memory of Fr. Cornelius Thensted, ST, for his outreach to the region's poor that began in 1947, the Thensted Center aims to build up people of all ages and social backgrounds without regard to race or religioun, as they strive for healthier, more fulfilling and self-sufficient lives.