by Michael Hammond | Aug 15, 1987 | Obituaries
“I think the primary aim of our Institute, according to our founder, is works of charity – not so in much giving money, as in giving ourselves.” Sister Mary Viola Cobey not only wrote these words, she lived by them. Perhaps the most striking example...
by Michael Hammond | Aug 3, 1987 | Obituaries
“Eternal Beginning, Creative Spirit,Recreate me!You Who have begun me,Complete me.” In the later years of her life, Sister Patricia Rashotte used this intense prayer to plead for God’s help in finishing the work of her sanctification. The invitation to full union with...
by Michael Hammond | Jan 31, 1987 | Obituaries
Rose Marie Catherine Scanlan was born on January 13, 1929, in Belleville and was baptized just one week later at St. Michael’s Church. She was the only daughter of Terence V. Scanlan and Rose Alice Fahey and obviously her father’s favourite. Her brothers recall that...
by Michael Hammond | Sep 2, 1986 | Obituaries
On the Feast of the Assumption, August 15, 1921, Kathleen Cecilia Desjardins entered the Sisters of Charity of the House of Providence. She was only sixteen years of age. About two weeks later she was asked by a relative of another sixteen year old to “look after” the...
by Michael Hammond | Jun 3, 1986 | Obituaries
When Sister Mary Francis of Assisi retired after forty-nine years of teaching, William Davis, then Minister of Education and later Premier of Ontario, wrote to her: “It must be a source of great satisfaction to you to realize the Christian initiative and knowledge you...
