The holiday season deaths brought somberness Elsa Peretti Carved Heart bracelet the convent, which shares its spacious, wooded East Side grounds with a church, retreat center and medical facilities for elderly nuns.Sisters sought solace in the death rituals of the church."It's really about celebrating a life, not about mourning a death," Sister Hubbard continued. "That's especially when you have special characters like Sister Anastasia Elsa Peretti Starfish bracelet or Sister Monica LaFleur, who touched a lot of lives in the diocese."Sister Enright, who at one point was administrator of St. Joseph Hospital, was an accomplished painter with a flair for water-color landscapes, her religious colleagues recalled.
Sister LaFleur, a beloved American history teacher who frequently was visited by her former students, upon retirement became the order's archivist. Often, Elsa Peretti Open Heart bracelet passing Sister LaFleur's office door would be beckoned inside to view her latest historic discovery.Sister Sheridan was remembered as a compassionate nurse, who, though reared a Mormon, converted to Catholicism after joining the staff of a hospital the order then ran in Long Beach, Calif.
"We see each of them as a whole person and reflect on the contributions they made to us as a congregation and to the church as well," Sister Hubbard said. "It's Elsa Peretti Teardrop bracelet than just the stuff in the obit. It's more than when she was born, who her parents were and where she lived."The deaths, said Sister Alice Mary Buckley, also a leadership team member, are an outgrowth of an inexorable fact."We are," she said, "an aging congregation."
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