IHM Newsletter - August 2012page 1 page 1 August 2012

IHMs Gather for Annual Assembly and Jubilee Celebration Two hundred forty-four sisters gathered July 27 and 28 for the annual IHM Assembly. Following the opening prayer, Sister Therese O’Rourke, president, addressed the assembly. A discussion about the present doctrinal assess-ment followed. The afternoon agenda included a compre-hensive midterm report from the IHM Leadership Team. Several items carried over from the Mission Board were discussed and voted on prior to the conclusion of the meet-ing. A picnic supper was held in thanksgiving for Sister Ruth Harkins and her ten years as director of vocations for the congregation. Later in the evening many sisters at-tended the St. Joseph’s Center Festival on the grounds of Marywood University. Saturday’s presentation and process were facilitated by Sister Chris Partisano, CSJ. A three-part video interview of Sister Sandra Schneiders, IHM, (Monroe) conducted by Sister Annmarie Sanders, was presented. In part one Sister Sandra addressed, “Letting the Past Guide our Movement into the Future.” Following the video segment, the as-sembly participants engaged in reflection and conversation about what they found both comforting and challenging in what Sandra said. The second part of Sandra’s presentation, “Exploring the Present,” led participants to share ideas about the ministe-rial needs IHMs are being called to meet and how those needs might be met. Participants were asked what they might be willing to risk for the sake of the mission. The third segment of the presentation focused on “Mov-ing into the Future,” and posed these questions for discus-sion: 1. What is God drawing me towards? 2. What is God drawing us towards? How do I fit into that movement? 3. How am I persevering? What does persevering mean for me today? Open mic time followed table discussions. The assembly concluded with prayer for the deceased IHM sisters. The IHM celebration of jubilarians was held with Mass in the IHM Center Chapel that was followed by dinner in the Theresa Maxis Conference Center.

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Celebrating Jubilees70 year Jubliarians

60 year Jubliarians

50 year Jubliarians

70 year Jubliarians Sisters Marionette Coll, Daniela McCarthy, Lisbeth Hartnett, Margaret Clarke and President Therese O’Rourke. Not pictured: Sister Laurentia Mayan

60 year JubliariansFront L-R Sisters Mary Howard Krotzer, Michlyn Grella, Mary Hugh Placilla, Jacquelin Servick, Maria Goretti Timperio, St. Mel Wright. Back L-R President, Sister Therese O’Rourke, Gilmary Speirs, Fran-cis Xavier Grieb, Geraldine Ma-rie Dranginis. Not pictured: Mary Elizabeth Costello, Francis Borgia O’Donnell, and Jeanne Tubach

A Eucharistic Liturgy was held in honor of IHM Jubilarians at the IHM Center Chapel on Sunday, July 29. A dinner followed in the Theresa Maxis Conference Center. Pictured left are:

50 year JubliariansFront L-R Sisters Frances E. Rus-sell, Barbara Jablonski, Florence Ann Marino, Janet Rossiter, Patricia Tip-pen, Anna Tantsits, Mary Pio Ferrario. Back L-R President Sister Therese O’Rourke, Katherine O’Neil, Marie Estelle Gavel, Linda Anne Green-berg, Elizabeth Pearson, Angelique Vannicola, Rose Marie Mozzachio, Margaret Mary Caulson. Not pictured: Sisters Marie C. Moore and Mary Luke Zaleski.

Also celebrating her 51st jubilee was Sister Joan Katoski.

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Moving with the Spirit in Chicago One hundred fifty Sisters of IHM, Sisters of St. Casimir and Sisters of Saints Cyril and Methodius gathered in Chicago at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of St. Casimir for the fourth tri-community meeting, Moving with the Spirit, August 2-5. The SSC hostesses attended to every minute detail of hospitality. Guest presenter, Margaret Silf, addressed participants Friday and Saturday mornings on the theme of contemplation. Margaret’s presentations were filled with imagery and story. Listeners will remember the pertinent analogies made through the stories of Humpty Dumpty, the cacoon, stained glass, and the lamp in the center of the room. Some of Margaret’s key points included:

Sometimes it takes a bolt of lightening to release our creativity and kick-start the emergence of a new way of thinking, or doing or being. First we have to be willing to let things die when the time is right. Second, we have to be willing to tolerate, and even welcome, interruptions to the smooth running of our lives. They may be “annunciations.” Third, we need to learn to listen to the subtle movements in our hearts that help us to get in touch with whatever “strange attraction” is working within us. We need to listen to the movements of the Holy Spirit.

Each afternoon was planned by the SSC Sisters and included a boat ride on the Chicago River and Lake Michi-gan and a double-decker bus tour of the city. Saturday, a free day, provided an opportunity for sisters to visit city attractions such as Navy Pier, Shedd Aquarium, Adler Planetarium, the Field Museum and the Art Institute. Liturgies, prayer, meals and socials were planned with a sensitivity to the three congregations’ shared heritage and deepening commitment to collaborative efforts. Many who attended the gathering spoke of the experience as enjoyable, enlightening and entertaining. Many sisters expressed their deep gratitude for the warm and gracious hospitality extended to them by the Sisters of St. Casimir and assured their continuing prayer for them and the needs of their congregation.

The sisters were waiting for the bus to arrive from Pennsylvania. Their warm welcome was a great start to a great weekend.

Margaret Silf (L) and Sister Theresa Dabulis, SSC

Sisters Anne McDonald (L) and Kathleen Kelly enjoy the boat ride

on Lake Michigan

Planning Committee: L-R seated Sisters Therese O’Rourke,

IHM, Barbara Sable, SSCM, Michael Ann Orlik, SSCM. L-R standing Sisters Regina Marie Dubickas, SSC, Ellen Maroney,

IHM, Immacula Wendt, SSC, and Suzanne Duzan, SSCM

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IHM Represents MU at Stockholm Conference Sister Angela Kim and her colleague, Ste-phen C. Burke, PhD, were invited to pres-ent their research study: “Interdisciplinary Empowerment Service Model for Migrants/Immigrants/Refugees in Suburban Settings” at the 2012 Joint World Conference on Social Work and Social Development: Action and Impact. The conference was held July 8-12 in Stockholm, Sweden. Over 2,000 social workers, educators and social development practitioners gathered at the world confer-ence to share, learn and cooperate to advance social work professional objectives. The conference focus was to celebrate social work and social development as well as provide an opportunity for social workers in all parts of the global community to network.

Sisters Joel Marie Sheehe and Donna Korba visited the sisters in Peru during the summer. They are pictured here with Sisters Mary Elaine Anderson, Jeanne Marie Kearney and Eileen Egan on July 4 to celebrate U.S. independence day.

On September 29, 2012, Little Flower School, Bethesda, Md., will open its sixtieth year with a special liturgy celebrated by Donald Cardinal Wuerl, the Archbishop of Washington. Little Flower will celebrate 60 years of Catholic Education and 60 years of loving, faithful service of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. A celebration for present and former members of the school and parish community will follow in the newly renovated parish hall. All IHM Sisters in the area and those who have served at Little Flower are cordially invited to join this special anniversary event.

Little Flower School 60th Anniversary

2011-2012 Annals Due August 31 The annals are the main source for a significant number of archi-val requests, e.g., questions about our sisters who have served or are serving in various locations and ministries, centenary celebra-tions, reunions, and historical events. Sisters are asked to write annals for whatever residential and/or ministerial environments in which they serve. Annals should be forwarded to the congrega-tion archivist, Sister Anitra Nemotko, either by regular mail or e-mail to nemotkoa@sistersofihm.org. Annals are due on or before August 31, 2012.

Elected to CouncilSister Joan Milot, APB, (former IHM) of the Monastery of the Precious Blood in Manchester, NH, was recently elected president of the American Federation of Precious Blood Sisters. Sister Joan joined the Precious Blood Sisters in 1977.

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Serving Seniors at Marydale The hottest days of the summer could not melt the spirits of the IHM Sisters, associ-ates and volunteers who participated in the IHM Service Trip, July 15-21, 2012. Sister Mary Rita Smith, pastoral care and service coordinator at Marydale, designed the project and con-tacted residents. Each day sixteen volunteers reported to Sister Mary Rita for work assignments. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the big yellow bus arrived from Saint Mark’s High School, Wilmington, Delaware, bringing seventeen more strong and eager student and faculty volunteers. Together, they scrubbed kitchens and bath-rooms, cleaned windows, polished furniture, shampooed carpets, weeded gardens, trimmed shrubbery, painted benches, set up the dining area, helped prepare and serve meals and did anything else residents requested. Relationships among volunteers and senior residents deepened as they talked, ate, sang, prayed and enter-tained each other. Sister Sandy Grieco’s volunteers from Saint Mark’s hosted the group from Scranton on Wednesday eve-ning which began with prayer lead by Sister Redempta Sweeney. Saint Mark’s provided a meal, a postcard sta-tion and lots of table games and fun in the gym. T-shirts were exchanged and friendships formed among service oriented teens. With their work completed, the Scranton group spent some time in reflection on the grounds of Marydale. At their closing prayer ritual, each volunteer expressed sincere gratitude for the wonderful days of prayer, commu-nity, service and fun they experienced while living, working and praying with the IHM Sisters.

Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure: Scranton, September 8 For more than twenty years the Komen NEPA Race for the Cure has been the city’s largest 5K event. The Komen Race is a September tradition in Northeastern Pennsylvania with mothers, daughters, friends and families joining together in the fight against breast cancer. Join the IHM Sisters Team for the Race for the Cure. Team members will meet at 8:00 a.m. at the Federal Building in downtown Scranton. Please wear your IHM Race for the Cure T-shirt (any year’s shirt will do). Please register online at the link below. Team members will be responsibe for picking up their own Race for the Cure T-shirts that are given with a registration fee of $30. Several IHM Race for the Cure T-shirts are available for new team members. Please contact Maria Celmer at 570-346-5404 or communications@sistersofihm.org to obtain a T-shirt. Register “as an individual” for the race at:https://secure.info-komen.org/site/TRR/RacefortheCure/SCR_NortheasternPennsylvaniaAffiliate/558692332?pg=ptype&fr_id=2305

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This biography of Father Gillet is dedicated to the more than six thousand valiant women who have lived vowed lives as Sisters, Servants of the

Immaculate Heart of Mary since their founding in 1845. Afire with the spirit and zeal of

Louis Gillet and Theresa Maxis Duchemin, they have served in religious, educational, scientific

and administrative fields on six continents, representing the three IHM Motherhouses of

Monroe, Immaculata, and Scranton. Moreover, this work is also lovingly dedicated to the more than six hundred Oblate Sisters of Providence, Baltimore, Maryland, – for it was these women

religious who first welcomed the ministry of Father Gillet into their convent in 1843, and from their number came two of the first IHM members who established a community in a log cabin on the

banks of the River Raisin in Monroe, Michigan.

“I hope this work will be a prelude to a deeper appreciation of

Louis Florent/Marie-Célestin Gillet...”- Gilbert Ahr Enderle, C.Ss.R.

Available for PurchaseContact Communications Office

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Save the Date: Awakening the Dreamer Symposium

Saturday, October 20www.pachamama.org/workshops/awakening-the-dreamer-symposium

Dear Sisters,

The IHM Jubilarians thank you for the beautiful Eucharistic liturgy celebrated at the IHM Center on July 29. For each of us, it was a memorable occassion. We are grateful for your generous, joyful, loving outpouring of prayers, good wishes and gifts in our honor. The wonderful dinner and gracious atmosphere of that day will long remain in our memories and prayers. May God bless you for your presence and participation on this happy day.

IHM Leadership Team This is a listing of events and meetings attended by one or more members of the leadership team during the month of July:

IHM Friends – Carbondale meetingsSisters of St. Casimir’s AssemblyVocation Team gatheringIHM AssemblyIHM Congregational Jubilee celebrationMission Board Planning Committee meetingsFilming session: The Covenant Process, ChicagoLCWR Region 3 Planning meetingSt. Joseph’s Center Festival

570-595-7548ihmcresco@yahoo.com

Weaving Gratefully the Threads of LifeSunday, September 9 to Fri-day, September 14Arrive: Sunday, 4:00 p.m. Depart: Friday, 1:00 p.m.In this retreat, we will grow in relationship to the God who is weaving the diverse and sometimes contradic-tory threads of our lives into a beautiful and harmoni-ous whole. Drawing on the biblical vision of Shalom and the teachings of mystics and prophets of a variety of traditions, we will encounter the God whose deepest desire is the abundant flourishing of life.Presenter: Fr. Terrence Moran, CSsR

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IHM EventsAwakening the Dreamer

Symposium IHM Center

Saturday, October 20

Mission Board Meeting Saturday, November 3

Chapter 2013

March 2-3 First Meeting of Delegates

April 27-28 Chapter Meeting

July 26-28 Assembly and Chapter Meeting

November 16-17 Chapter Meeting

Chapter 2014February 1

Discernment Day

March (6) 7-9 Chapter of Affairs/Elections

April (3) 4-6 Chapter of Affairs/Elections

(as of August 9, 2012)(as of August 9, 2012)Final Profession - 417Final Profession - 417

Temporary Profession - 4Temporary Profession - 4

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Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

By: Dorothy WickendenReviewed by: Sister Mary Joan Kelleher

This is the story to surpass all stories! But it is not a story! Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamund Underwood, gradu-ates of Smith College, daughters of wealth from Auburn,

New York, decide to leave Auburn in 1916 and head to Elkhead, Colorado, to teach school. This story is based on letters that Dorothy Wickenden had received from her mother that were written by her grandmother, Dorothy Woodruff. The letters showed two very independent women who rejected the conventional life destined for them. They decided, after graduation and a trip to Europe, to accept a teaching job in Colorado. The trip by railroad over the Continental Divide took five days. They stopped at Chicago to meet J. Platt Underwood, an uncle of Rosamund. They stayed at his home overnight and continued on their way the next day. Terry Carpenter, a friend of a friend, who had encouraged their coming west to Elkhead, Colorado, was anxiously looking forward to their arrival. They were to teach in a consolidated school which he and his neighbors built. No one in the women’s community had ever been hired by anyone, so this was, to say the least, shocking to their families and friends. Both women were determined, however, to go “west.” After traveling by railroad, they went by wagon to Elkhead. Life was about to be very different for Dorothy and Rosamund. They were to live with a family of homesteaders, ride several miles to school every day on horseback in all kinds of weather. The students were poor; they walked or skied to school. However, their lives were to be forever changed by these wonderful women. The lives of Dorothy and Rosamund were also changed. Amid the hardships, they grew to love their students and to appreciate how willing they were to learn. What Dorothy and Rosamund did not realize was that Terry Carpenter had hoped that they would become brides for the local men. He was more successful than he had hoped. Rosamund married Bob Perry, in Auburn; Dorothy married Lemuel Hillman, four days later in Auburn. Let me quote from Maile Meloy, author of “Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It”: “Dorothy Wickender has beautifully captured a world in transition, a pivotal chapter not just in the life of her bold and spirited grandmother but also in the life of the American West.” You will love these women!

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IHM Directory Update

www.sistersofihm.org Online directory

Mary Ann Adams Nazareth Community IHM Center 570-330-0252

Regina Burns reginaburns376@gmail.com

Eleanor DesaulniersOur Lady of Peace Residence 570-330-8542

Mary Ellen Malloy Holy Trinity Community IHM Center 570-330-0210 Ancilla Maloney (until November)Instituto de Idiomas MaryknollCasilla 550Cochabamba, Bolivia

Joan McCusker St. Joseph Center 2010 Adams Avenue Scranton, PA 18509 570-963-1299

Felicia Ann Parise fparise@saintsaviourcatholicacademy.org

Lisa Perkowski Holy Family Convent 301 78th Avenue NE Saint Petersburg, FL 33702 727-526-1620

Joel Marie Sheehe srjoelihm@gmail.com

Jean Toolan Our Lady of Peace Residence 570-330-0261

Amy Zychal Sisters of IHM 1440 Penn Avenue Scranton, PA 18509 570-963-8598

Angel McCoughtry, a 2004 graduate fo St. Frances Academy (Oblate Sisters of Providence) in Bal-timore, is a member of the U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team. Playing for the Atlanta Dream, she is the leading scorer in the WNBA. Pictured left, McCoughtry contributed as U.S. women advanced to their Olympic gold-medal game.

Olympian Educated by OSPs in Baltimore

Purchase graphics for publications, program covers, bulletin boards, framable art at the IHM Heartworks online store. Visit http://store.ihmheartworks.org/merchant2/

Silver Circle News from Sister Ann Monica I offer my deepest thanks to all our Silver Circle Sellers, especially to those new sellers this year. We appreciate all that you do to keep the connections to our friends, family and co-workers. This program has been an excellent way to raise needed funds for our retired sisters as well as maintain links to those who wish continue support for IHM! Our 2012-13 packets have all been distributed and we are off and running towards a goal of 7,000 subscriptions to be sold in this year’s program. • If any seller is in any need of assistance, please call our Development Office 570-346-5431• Please submit your returns as soon as possible, even though all of your subscriptions and checks may not be back to you. • If you need any additional tickets or need to return tickets, please let us know as soon as possible Good Luck!!

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Ministry Photos NeededMinistry photos are needed by the Communications Of-by the Communications Of-by the Communications Office for publications and the

web site. Send photos to:

Fran Fasolka, IHMCommunications

IHM Center2300 Adams AvenueScranton, PA 18509

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Note of GratitudeNote of GratitudeNote of GratitudeNote of GratitudeDear Beloved Sisters of IHM, The family of Sister Kathleen O’Dea is grateful for the loving care given to Kathleen during her long illness. Her suffering was alleviated by the attention of her family of IHM sisters who were there for her all hours of the day and night. Our deep appreciation to the sisters at Our Lady of Peace and all the IHM sisters. We will be ever thankful to all the sisters at Our Lady of Peace for the wonderful manner in which the wake and funeral were arranged. Kathleen was dearly loved by her entire family, and we were honored and pleased that she was held in such high esteem by all her fellow sisters. Special thanks for all the Mass cards and special enrollments by so many sisters. Please accept this collectively. Thank you. Lovingly and Fondly, Jim O’Dea and Bernadette Murphy

Thank you for your concern, cards, and most of all, for your prayers dur-ing my recent hospitalization. I am very grateful for your kindness. God bless you. Love and prayers, Sister Theresa Bonanza

The Jordan family would like to thank everyone for their prayers, cards, and support following the death of Joseph Jordan, husband and father.

We would like to express our appreciation for all the prayers, love, con-cern and support we received during my Mom’s illness and passing on July 30. The Lord has blessed us with a wonderful family, and we have considered the IHMs our extended family for three generations. May many more blessings be showered upon all of us because of this relationship. God Bless! The Coyne Family

Sister Barbara D’Auria and family wish to thank all who so lovingly of-Sister Barbara D’Auria and family wish to thank all who so lovingly of-Sister Barbara D’Auria and family wish to thank all who so lovingly offered condolences through cards, phone calls and Mass cards upon the death of Peter D’Auria.

Dear Sisters,Your outpouring of love, care and support have kept us going during this horrendous time. My sister, Betty, continues to recover at the Mercy Hos-pital in Pittsburgh. Please pray for her peace of mind and heart. Love and deep gratitude, Sister Monique Dissen and Family

Sisters, thanks to all who prayed for my Mom, Mary Blanche Boarman, upon her death. She was a very spiritual lady and I will miss her every day for the rest of my life. Linda Boarman Garvey, formerly Sister Ann Renata

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