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Riding the Wind Interprovince Gathering

By SpencerWeb

What: Riding the Wind Interprovince Gathering When: Fri. Nov. 3 through Sun., Nov. 5 (Optional Travel Day: Thurs, Nov. 2) Where: St. Louis, Missouri, at the Renaissance Hotel For Whom: Sisters and Invited Partners in Mission (only) Dear Sisters and Partners-in-Mission: The Circle Implementation Team (CIT) invites you to join us for an in-person, inter-province…

Obituary Thomas More Fahey, RGS

By Jeanette McDermott

Thomas More Fahey, February 14, 1936 – February 10, 2023 Thomas More Fahey, a Sister of the Good Shepherd in the New York/ Toronto Province, returned to her Shepherd God early Friday morning, February 10, 2023, at the Ozanam Hall Rehabilitation facility in Bayside, New York. Sister Thomas experienced failing health since early December, 2022….

Sister Christine with the surviving Vietnamese "single men"

Touched by an angel

By Jeanette McDermott

More than 200 South Vietnamese men were imprisoned in Hong Kong for no crime other than being single 40 years ago, when stigmatized sentiments of “boat people” from Vietnam dominated the public conscience. The British government hoped to prevent social problems in Hong Kong by confining these men, ages 15-84. The men had no chairs…

Obituary Mary Carmen Flores

By Sr. Mary Carol

Mary Carmen Flores, RGS October 16, 1942 – December 3, 2022 Sister Mary Carmen Flores passed over into the arms of our Good Shepherd late in the evening of Saturday, December 3, 2022, after a two-week struggle following a major stroke. She was 80 years old and had lived as a vowed Religious of the…

Obituary Mary Joy Benson

By Sr. Mary Carol

Mary Joy Benson, RGS March 13, 1933-December 13, 2022 Sister Mary Joy Benson, RGS., 89, of Danville, Pennsylvania, passed away peacefully on Tuesday December 13, 2022, at Nazareth Memory Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. She was born to Paul D. Benson and Mary Catherine Murphy Benson on March 13, 1933, in Baltimore, Maryland. Her birth name…

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Normandy Property Update

By Jeanette McDermott

The Province Center Mission Partners have completed the Herculean task of clearing the four-story Province Center building. Since the sale of the Normandy property was announced last September, Sisters and Administrative Staff have been identifying, sorting, packing, labeling, and finding new homes for furniture and other items that had accumulated throughout 50-plus years at 7654…