Beginning January 6, 2010, the Feast of the Maryknoll Sister's 99th Anniversary of Foundation, the Maryknoll Sisters will share twenty-four reflections. These reflections will come out in the early days of each month of 2011 and 2012, as they look forward to, and then realize the various celebrations of the Maryknoll Sisters Centennial!
These writings can be used individually or in a group, on reflection days or at any other time. The Sisters write, "May they serve to bring all of us to a greater depth of understanding and love of the wonderful legacy that is ours!"
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Wednesday, 04 April 2012 15:54
Delegates to the 1st Maryknoll Sisters Chapter
Back Row: Srs. St. John Brown, Regina Reardon, Veronica Hartman, Columba Tarpey, MMJ, Felicita Clark, Teresa Sullivan, Marie Therese Kehoe.
Front Row: Srs. Ambrose Crawford, Genevieve Beez, Gerard Gallagher, Mary de Paul Cogan, Margaret Mary Slattery, Lumena McMahon, Theophane Shea.
Delegates not pictured here were: Srs. Gemma Shea, Aloysius McDonald, John Cahill.
The First Congregational Chapter - 1925
The first Canonical Visitation by His Eminence Cardinal Hayes was made on December 6, 1924. He decided that elections be held in the Spring of 1925, and the Sisters' First Chapter took place in May 1925. The single most important work of the eighteen Sister-delegates, who represented in some way all the 163 Sisters, was the first official canonical election of officers to govern the community for the next six years. Mother Mary Joseph (MMJ) was chosen unanimous-ly as the first Mother General, and four Sister Councilors were elected: Srs. M. Columba Tarpey, M. St. John Brown, M. de Paul Cogan, M. Felicita Clark, and Sr. Regina Reardon continued as Bursar General. MMJ was also to act as Local Superior.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 16:21
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Thursday, 01 March 2012 11:23
MMJ with the 2nd Departure Group (1922) to China: Srs. Dolores Cruise, Magdalen Doelger, Cecilia Cruickshank, Thomas Bresnahan, Gertrude Moore, MMJ, and Sr. Frances Davis.
(Click on picture to enlarge it)
Second Group of Sisters Leave for China
On September 12, 1922, the second group of Sisters left for China. Led by Sister Magdalen Doelger, the group included: Sisters Dolores Cruise, Cecilia Cruickshank, Thomas Bresnahan, Gertrude Moore and Francis Davis. Arriving in Hong Kong, they made the Maryknoll House there happily crowded by their presence. However, some of the newly-arrived were destined for the new mission in Yeungkong where Father Francis X. Ford was pastor. Already working at this mission were Sisters Mary Rose Leifels, Mary Lawrence Foley and Barbara Froehlich.
In mid-January, 1923, they experienced their first war scare. Following the advice of Father Ford, they bought extra supplies, dimmed their lights, and remained on the first floor of their convent, because they would have made good targets on the second and third floors.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 16:21
Wednesday, 01 February 2012 11:17
The Death of Fr. Thomas F. Price
On September 7, 1918, the first group of Maryknoll Fathers left for Yeungkong. Fr. Thomas Price, co-founder, led the group of young priests: Fathers James E. Walsh, Francis X. Ford, and Bernard F. Meyer. Father Price, who was fifty-eight years old, died of a ruptured appendix in a Hong Kong Hospital on September 12, 1919. From all over people offered Maryknoll their sympathy for his loss.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 February 2012 11:50
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Thursday, 05 January 2012 18:36
Mother Mary Joseph on August 4, 1930, gave her first reflective formulation on the "Maryknoll Spirit," which was a key to all her later reflections on its meaning. We share some excerpts from this conference:
"As one lamp lights another nor grows less, so nobleness enkindles nobleness."
From the Poem Yussouf by James Russell Lowell
We can easily see the meaning of these words. We know that if we take a candle and light another one, the light of the first does not lessen, rather it gives light to the second one. And so it is with us, with our virtues. Kindness begets kindness and charity begets charity, and the first act does not grow less, rather has it increased. If we could only be conscious that every act of kindness will beget another act of kindness, and an act of charity will bring another act of charity, how little trouble we would have in life.
Now all of this applies to our life as Maryknoll Sisters and the spirit of our congregation depends very much upon the application of those very words, "as one lamp lights another nor grows less, so nobleness enkindles nobleness." We know every community has its own distinctive spirit, and we hear a great deal about the "Maryknoll Spirit." Those of us who have been here from the beginning have seen people come to Maryknoll, who had in mind that they would see something here that had been very much exaggerated, that a lot of the talk they had heard about Maryknoll was really publicity.
Last Updated on Monday, 09 January 2012 11:54
Friday, 09 December 2011 15:36
The Maryknoll Sisters' Congregational Leadership Team sent this Christams card to the Maryknoll Affliates (click on the image to enlarge it).
A Promise Kept
This child was born.
The whole earth cries for it.
Dark earth, waiting for its Star.
As a Promise kept,
this Child of God returns shining in the night
bold beacon
bearing a wisdom both ancient and new
leading us toward love
and a future for which we
have so long hoped.
Sr. Elizabeth Terbock. MM
Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 December 2011 11:32
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