Like Kara and the Lim family, music is a bridge that unites Mike and Karen Beckmann to their faith, to the praying community to which they belong, and to Sister Francis Mary. Mike arrived in Springfield in 1997 to begin work in the pathology group at Memorial Medical Center. Because some of his colleagues and […]
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COVID was about to upend wedding plans for Kathy Lim’s son. So why was she so happy? Marc finished his first year as an attending interventional radiology physician at Oregon Health & Science University when he needed to move cross-country to join his fiancé, Stephanie. Kathy offered to accompany him. During their eastward journey it
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Don’t miss this beautiful conversation about the value of friendship and the importance of faith for lives full of meaning and purpose. Sister Francis Mary Philipp and Kara Mernaugh met when Kara was a young child. Over a quarter-century their relationship changed, but faith has always been at the heart of it. When Kara was
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Sister Francis Mary and Kara Mernaugh discovered early in life that music was the medium through which they would communicate their faith. It was the magic of a player piano and her mother’s music-making that sealed the deal for Sister Francis Mary. She began her music lessons in first grade because “It’s what you did.”
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Talk with Sister Francis Mary Philipp for any length of time and you are likely to learn three things: music is the heart of her relationships; she loves accompanying others to their full potential; her life-story is a master class in “bridging”—a musical technique that brings the listener full circle back to the heart of
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The youngest sister on St. Dominic Mission in 1970 was Sister Mary Paul McCaughey. She was vivacious, intelligent, energetic, and tackled any opportunity to get a job DONE. One of the first stories I recall her sharing at the convent dinner table was about her Marian Catholic High School 1967prom night. Seems that after the
Sister Sara Koch remembers:
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