Sister Anne Lawrence celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Sister Anne Lawrence was born in the south-central Illinois community of Greenville, and spent the greater part of her 60 years of religious profession educating children in Central Illinois. Her early years were spent in elementary schools. She taught most grades at one time […]
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Sister Margaret Mary celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Sister Margaret Mary has ministered in a variety of ways throughout her 60 years of religious profession. The first 18 years were given to elementary education in parochial schools, then she embarked on seven years teaching religious education in two of the rural religious
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Sister Marilyn Jean celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Springfield born and raised, Sister Marilyn Jean Runkel, OP, has spent much of her ministerial life in the Springfield Diocese. After teaching elementary and middle school at Aurora and Mendota, Ill., she served as a teacher and principal at St. Mary School in New
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Sister M. Harold celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Sister Mary Harold gave the first 25 years of religious profession to elementary education, teaching and administering schools—sometimes at the same time! During her year in Granite City, she undertook the important task of helping to merge two parochial elementary schools. The next 11
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Sister Judith celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Sister Judith Hilbing (Sister Francis Irene) has given her 60 years of religious profession to the education of youth and the promotion of a more just world. After 18 years teaching elementary school students in the United States, she answered the call to what would
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Sister Bernadette Marie celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. After a dozen years teaching elementary school children, Sister Bernadette Marie made the switch to library science, and to decades of service in the three high schools owned by the community: Marian Catholic, Sacred Heart-Griffin, and Rosary. Her dry wit and insatiable curiosity made
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Sister Colette celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Sister Colette Barker’s longest mission by far was Rosary High School in Aurora, where, for 28 years, she was executive assistant to the schools administrators. She loved it at Rosary, she says, but all the other places she ministered were equally important to her, for
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Sister Myra celebrates 60 years of religious profession in 2020. Her profession is Sister M. Timothy’s “fault.” Sister Myra claims “it’s Sister M. Timothy’s fault” that she is a Dominican instead of a Franciscan Sister. She tells the story like this: “I met Sister Timothy at Our Lady of Grace (Chicago) before I entered the
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Sister Mary Dominic Joerger celebrates 75 years of religious profession in 2020. Small in stature, it seemed ordained that she devoted most of her religious life to teaching primary grades. Second grade was her favorite because it allowed her to prepare her students for First Communion, a responsibility she delighted in. A native of Mendota,
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Every year about this time we honor and celebrate with our sisters who observe milestone profession anniversaries of 25, 50, 60—and yes, sometimes even 75 years of consecrated life. This year we celebrate with eight of our sisters celebrating 50 or 60 year anniversaries. 60 year jubilarians Sister Agnes Ann Pisel, OP Sister Margaret Ann
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Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Park Forest, Ill., Sister Rose Marie Riley has given much of her vowed life to the spiritual gift St. Paul recognized as administration. In 2019 she began a new administrative responsibility as the director of Jubilee Farm, the congregation’s earth spirituality and retreat facility on the western edge of
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Those who know Sister Mary Frances might call her a creative, free spirit. It is that joy and creativity that she brought to all the years of her ministry, whether as an educator, pastoral minister, or artist. A native of Aurora, Ill., Sister Mary Fran ministered throughout Illinois and in Mississippi. She began her vowed
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Sister M. Georgiana enjoys whatever God calls her to do, and that sense of joy has served her well on two continents. Since 2014 the Chicago native has ministered at St. Ambrose Parish, Godfrey, where she currently delights in welcoming visitors as a part-time receptionist. In central Illinois she has also served as primary school
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“When I look back over the years I’m in wonder at my vocation,” Sister M. Stanley says. “It is truly an ‘amazing grace’ that I am here. That grace has kept me going all these years. I enjoyed all my years of teaching and accompanying students.” It’s safe to say that her students enjoyed her
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Looking after the needs of children and elders has been the hallmark of Sister Mary Francella’s religious life. For nearly 40 years she taught primary grades throughout Illinois. In Chicago, at St. Christina (1959-1962) St. John Bosco (1968-1977), and St. Edward (1978-1989). In central Illinois, at St. Patrick, Springfield (1962-1968); Our Lady of Lourdes, Decatur
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