JUBILEE ~~~ a time to  look back

    ~~~ a time to rejoice in what is

        ~~~a time to look to the future

            ~~~ a time to give praise to God!!

 
75 YEARS: Sister Kathleen Mattingly, OP

70 YEARS: Sister Mary Peter Lajoie, OP

65 YEARS: Sister Margaret Ann Brady, OP
                Sister Charlotte Clayton, OP

60 YEARS: Sister Theresa McManus, OP
               Sister Rose Anthony Heitzman, OP
               Sister Gerturde Veronica Zablotny, OP
               Sister Laetitia Anne Campbell, OP
               Sister Virginia Mary Sammett, OP

50 YEARS: Sister Helen McCarthy, OP
               Sister Maureen Flanagan, OP
               Sister Pauline La Mothe, OP
               Sister Christine Loughlin, OP
               Sister Mary Claire Kirkpatrick, OP
               Sister Barbara Sullivan, OP


               
 

 Preparations for Jubilee start many months before the actual date.  Letters of invitation are sent inviting all jubilarians to come to St. Catharine to celebrate together.  As the time approaches there is an excitement in the air. We begin speaking of time in relationship to jubilee.  This year would be a little bit different.  It would be the first celebration of jubilee as Dominican  Sisters of Peace.  We have sisters celebrating 50, 60, 65, 70 and 75 years of religious profession as Dominican Sisters of St. Catharine of Kentucky  and on May 24, 2009 they would renew their vows, their commitment, by reciting the vow formula that was chosen by the Dominican Sisters of Peace.  It seems appropriate that those who have been such vital, gift-giving members of the congregation were also the first to use the new vow formula publicly.  They also shared this day with the sisters celebrating at St. Mary of the Springs in Columbus, Ohio.

Preparations were carried out with love and anticipation: new gardens put in, the best dishes taken down and readied, the grounds spruced up (the weather cooperated by gifting us with a marvelous spring, so the grounds looked beautiful.  The damaged caused by the winter ice storm had taken so many trees but the  nitrogen infused into the ground has given us a lush green everywhere.  Everyone, employees in Food Service, Maintenance, Motherhouse and Sansbury Staff, congregational office staff, the sisters... EVERYONE had some part to play in getting ready to welcome the jubilarians home. Finally everyone and everything was ready and the jubilarians began to arrive.  Truly these days were days that the Lord had made and we were ready to rejoice and be glad.

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