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  SISTER
DOLORES BLANCHETTE
On June 27-28, the Sisters in Holy Angels Province came
together for a community gathering and to enjoy the
beautiful grounds at Providence Centre. It was a time
to share and to give thanks. We gave thanks for the
many blessings including the sixty years of religious
life of Sister Dolores Blanchette.
THE NEW PROVINCIAL COUNCIL
We gave thanks as well for our outgoing Provincial
Council members, Sister Mary Lei Gordon and Sister Rita
Schiller who have completed their mandate. We welcomed
the new Provincial Team Members, Sister Gloria Keylor,
Provincial Superior, and members of the Provincial
Council, Sister Anne Hemstock, Sister Margaret McGovern,
Sister Isabel Cid and Sister Toyleen Fook, who began a
new mandate July 1, 2008.
 INSTALLATION
AND BLESSING
OF ST. BERNADETTE
June 28, 2008 was a gorgeous summer day and the Sisters
gathered at the grotto of Our Lady for the installation
and blessing of the statue of St. Bernadette, which
completes the grotto. Following the blessing of the
statue of St. Bernadette we recited the rosary with the
singing of Ave Maria.
EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
Sisters Dolores Blanchette, Isabel Cid, Magdalena Chan
and Catherine Chan attended the 49th
International Eucharistic Congress held in Quebec.
 Sister
Magdalena Chan shares the following:
"Our group, pilgrims from Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Church in Calgary were so excited and happy to attend
the June, 20 Eucharist celebration by His Eminence,
Joseph Cardinal Zen Ze-Kiun, S.D.B., Bishop of Hong
Kong, China. The celebration began with a moving
procession of 20 physically challenged women and men
with wheelchairs and canes. They carried supple ribbons
that had been draped down from a large cross. Cardinal
Zen spoke of his father being baptized by a Canadian
missionary and how this for him is a homecoming of
sorts. In his homily, he also touched on the recent
earthquake in China, speaking of the massive destruction
in his country. Cardinal Zen remarked how this tragic
event reminded his people that in the midst of crisis,
we do not turn to material possessions or wealth, we
turn to God. In the suffering of thousands of victims,
Jesus was present in the debris, the darkness, the pain
and despair."
Sister Isabel Cid, SP who was an interpreter at the
International Eucharist Congress shares the following:
"The International Eucharistic Congress besides being
totally multicultural, intercultural and
intergenerational was a source of inspiration.
Eucharist is for me, to give thanks and celebrate God’s
presence in our reality. I found the testimony of Jean
Vanier from Canada, founder of the L’Arche Communities
for the disabled persons very moving, who said that 'to
receive the Eucharist is an invitation to become like
Jesus' and ‘if I became like Jesus my heart will be open
to all the poor to whom Jesus came to proclaim the Good
News'. He impressed me also when he said that 'to be
like Jesus is to be the voice of the voiceless, the
excluded and the disabled' and that to love them is the
mystery of loving Jesus in them."
Another testimony was from Miss Marguerite Barankitse
from Burundi, founder of the Shalom Houses to assist
child victims of the war between the Hutu and the Tutsi.
She described her work, as being grounded in the
Eucharist. She said, “we need to stop writing and
describing the Eucharist. The Eucharist is not found in
writings, in pastoral letters, in the convents. We are
the Eucharist”. “…Let us have the audacity to open up
our families, to go out to others.”
 WELCOME
On June 28, we welcomed Sister Jeannette Aboya Mpoma a
Sister of Providence from the Cameroun. Sister
Jeannette is a temporary-vowed sister and is here for
the summer to perfect her English.
On July 4, 2008, we welcomed Sister Mary Grace Valdez,
SP from the Philippines. Sister Mary Grace is a
temporary-vowed sister and is here on a six-month cross
cultural experience. |
