This is a copy of Sister Samuella’s hometown newspaper, the Mt. Sterling Democrat-Message, from January 11, 1950. The BIG NEWS, on the front page—just below the report of the Mt. Sterling city council meeting—is the story about the day Sister Samuella gave her life to God as a novice with the Dominican Sisters of Springfield: […]
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“It’s so good to be with her,” Billy said on a windy spring day four years ago. He could scarcely believe that he was standing with his first-grade teacher on the grounds of Jubilee Farm in Springfield, Ill., reminiscing about the times they shared together in Duluth, Minn. “Even before I was in your class,
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When you are six, grown-ups can be scary. Sister Samuella was not a scary grown-up. That’s what Springfield Dominican Sister Lori Kirchman remembers now more than 50 years after encountering her first real-live Catholic sister at St. Joseph School in Bradley, Ill. “I remember that she was a wonderful, kind person. Full of energy. She
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The first thing 8-year-old Leo noticed about his third-grade teacher was that she was small. This is true! Sister Samuella Volk is still small. She was never taller than four feet nine, she’ll tell you. Now approaching 90, she’s a little shy of that! It doesn’t keep her from the 101 tasks she accomplishes everyday
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Once Thanksgiving rolls around, there is hardly a resident of the United States who can escape the tidal wave of excess known as “The Holiday Season.” It carries us forward on a momentum of joviality, food, drink, gift-giving, and good will. Not a bad thing in itself, if it doesn’t obscure the foundational event
Advent and Christmas:
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