In 2012, Mother Abbess celebrated her Golden Jubilee (fifty years since her First Vows). Archbishop Mansell was among the guests.
Hatsume Sato is a devoted Catholic woman who for many years has been helping people in need in the house she built in Aomori, Japan. She dreamed of hanging a bell in that place of refuge, and we gave her one that hung above our carpentry shop.
With my friend Toby in Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi is known as a “grandmother room”—a place where everything lost is found. And that’s mostly true. I have a reputation for keeping everything. If something is misplaced, it usually turns up in Corpus Christi. It is a place that holds much of the history of Regina Laudis and many treasured memories for me.
With Dick working on the memoir
With Father Iain Highet at his Mass of Ordination to the Priesthood at the Cathedral of St. Joseph in Hartford, CT, on Saturday, May 14, 2011. Now that’s Benedictine continuity.
Mother Placid, my mentor and first friend at Regina Laudis, died on September 27, 2012. Her great gift was one of enabling a young person to make the leap from familial home to monastic home and hearth. She did this for every member of the clothed Community. People from far and wide, in their requests to visit, would ask to see Mother Placid. I knew why. She offered.
After years of projecting to build a new monastic complex on the hill, we have shifted our attention to renovating the original factory building where Mother Benedict and Mother Mary Aline had established the foundation in 1948. (Above, Mother Anselm with the contractor, Mr. Walter Duda.)
The New Horizons Renovation Project has unified the entire Community behind a fresh vision for the future, one that immediately addresses our needs for greater accessibility for the elderly, greater fire safety and more space for the new vocations we are so blessed to have. The new generation is helping us redesign the space without dramatically expanding the building’s structural footprint. (Below, Mr. Chris Decaro, project manager for Verdi Construction, with left to right, Stephanie Cassidy, me, Mother Cecilia, Mother Lucia, and Sister Maria Evangelista.)
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