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Our sisters in Brazil give Sister Anne a statue of St. Anne and Mary. From left to right Ironide Nunes, postulant, Sister Maria das Gracas Silva, Jessica Campos Souza, aspirant, Sister Anne, Sisters Camila Ferreira, novice, Eliene Batista Gouvea, Giselia Inacio Morais, and Joseline Carla Ferreira.
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Sisters Lucille Borengasser and Maria Larkin appreciate their ministry of visiting and sharing faith with the men and women in the Atchison County Jail.
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Sister Diana Seago builds our computers and keeps our computer network working properly.
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Sister Susan Holmes and volunteer, Jo Gressley, look over the program for bereavement conference to be offered this spring. Sister Susan is the chaplain and bereavement coordinator for the Hands of Hope Hospice in St. Joseph, Mo.
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 | Sister Mildred Vey was recognized as Volunteer of the Month for her work with animals at the Atchison Humane Society.
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Snow is a familiar sight this year at Mount St. Scholastica and all around our area.
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 | On January 20, the Atchison Community Concert Association brought the East Hills Singers to perform a beautiful program in St. Scholastica Chapel. The singers are made up of volunteers from Kansas City, Lawrence and Topeka and men from the Lansing Kansas Correctional Facility. Elvera Voth is the conductor.
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Sister Mary Lucy Krammer works as a tutor at Donnelly College. She tutors in many subjects and enjoys her work.
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 | Sister Fran Cross, Registrar at Donnelly College, is very helpful to students and is very accurate in her record keeping. She is getting information so she can look into the record of this woman and answer her questions.
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 | Sister Molly Brockwell joins her student in small group discussion concerning the information she has presented on some of the people in one of the books of the Old Testament of the Bible.
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 | Sister Barbara McCracken does quite a bit of work on the phone at Keeler Women’s Center in Kansas City, Kansas. The center just moved into the Catholic Charities building and will have a ribbon cutting, blessing and open house for the public on February 19, from 2:30 – 5:30pm | |
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Patty McMahon, school counselor at Resurrection School, meets with her supervisor, Sister Maria Heppler, who is director of the school counselor program for Catholic Community Services in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas.
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Sister Marilyn Schieber, center, is pastoral associate at Christ the King parish in Kansas City, Kansas. She meets with Mary Lou Hueser and Ginger Waterman to go over the last minute details for their mother’s funeral.
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Sister Barbara Conroy, center, works with a small group of students from Odessa, MO, who are preparing for confirmation and led them in a retreat at Sophia Center. | |
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Connie Letherman, coordinator of St. Luke’s Hospice, works with Sister Loretta McGuire who as bereavement coordinator provides follow-up services to the families for 13 months following the death of the patient.
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Sister Thomasita Homan, standing, is teaching a course on writing your life’s story at the Sophia Center. Each participant has a sister who serves as a mentor throughout the class.
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Following the performance by the East Hill Singers, the sisters invited the inmates to share dinner us. Sisters Mary Benedict Jacobs, Agnes Honz and Janelle Maes enjoy visiting with two of our guests.
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Sisters Mary Ann Dice, Susan Barber and Micaela Randolph share a special prayer with a couple of the men following the community blessing.
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 | Sisters Mary Blaise Cillessen and Delores Wagner join with the community and praying a blessing for our guests and promise to keep them in our prayers.
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