Jubilee celebration 2012!

 


We are in 1848, on January 16, in Montreal, where in a small convent chapel a very special celebration is taking place.  Bishop Ignace Bourget, then Bishop of Montreal, is presiding the ceremony.  At his request, Rosalie Cadron-Jetté, has agreed to found a community to perpetuate her work to the unmarried mother and her child to whom she has already devoted many years.  With seven companions, she now commits herself by vows to continue this mission in a spirit of compassion and mercy.  In that memorable moment, the Institute is founded.  These women will henceforth be called Misericordia Sisters.

 

Since then, many religious women have committed themselves to walk in the footsteps of Rosalie Cadron-Jetté, in religion Mother of the Nativité, a woman of a burning heart of unconditional love, founder of a very controversial work.

 

One hundred and sixty-four years have passed, the same dynamism is found in the community and on January 15, 2012, twelve Misericordia Sisters are celebrating their Jubilee of religious Profession, either 70, 60 or 50 years consecrated to live this special trait of Jesus, His merciful love, with young girls and women who are pregnant out-of-wedlock and with their children and, also, with women who find it difficult to live their maternity.

 

It is with joy that we present them. One of the twelve Sisters has been retained at the mission in New York.

 

Marguerite Beauchamp, s.m.

70 years

Émilienne Fournier, s.m.
70 years

Géraldine Gilbert, s.m.
70 years

 

  

  

Marilyn Blanford, s.m.

60 years

Rachel Demers, s.m.

60 years

Marie-Jeanne Lebeau, s.m.

60 years



  

  
Jeanne d'Arc Lebel, s.m.
60 years		 Marie-Denise Sauvé, s.m.
60 years		 Ellen Hunt, s.m.
50 years
 

  

  
Monique Lallier, s.m.
50 years		 Diane Prusinski, s.m.
50 years

Catherine McVicar, s.m.
50 years


Our warmest congratulations,

 

Dear Sisters, for these many years of dedicated service that have contributed to spread the divine mercy in the heart of a multitude of women and of many others, in the Church, in the city, and in more than one continent.

 

Let us give thanks to the Lord!

 

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