Sunday, July 10, 2005
Blessing given by Sr. Mary Persico and sung response by Sr. Patricia Scalese.
Below are audio files of On A Day Like this from With One Voice CD.
Today is a day for being drenched with God.
All days, all nights we know are so –
but on a day like this, we may go –
God-drenched awhile, under skies of peace and strength.
Sisters, Jubilarians, the days and months of your lives have turned into years and today we mark them…25, 50, 60, 70, 75, and even 80. We mark them by remembering not only how God has blessed you but also and gratefully how God has drenched us with love in each of you. Enjoy this moment, this memory, and allow us to share with you how God has touched the world through your goodness and compassion, your radiance and faithfulness, your kindness and wisdom…
This hour, in this place I pray
only to thirst, only to hunger.
This wild singing fills my heart,
reaching for You, O God.
Today is a day for being drenched with God.
All days, all nights we know are so –
but on a day like this, we may go –
God-drenched awhile, under skies of peace and strength.
You mentored and befriended us. That’s why we’re here today, ever thankful for the God-lessons. You walk with us still, making the triumphs sweeter and the burdens lighter. You have climbed to the heights of ministry with us, where we can view the weary world and have the courage to conquer it for God’s sake. Likewise, you companion us in our living and in our praying, and show us by the example of your lives that a presence more than human sits gently among us.
My gifts, my desires are Yours –
not my own design, but Your
pattern to weave.
Come, take this life I give.
All I have is Yours.
Today is a day for being drenched with God.
All days, all nights we know are so –
but on a day like this, we may go –
God-drenched awhile, under skies of peace and strength.
We have watched you share your gifts, freely and abundantly: the hand of an artist, the mind of a teacher, the touch of a musician, the receptive ear of one who listens and waits, the skill of the receptionist, secretary, administrator, assistant, companion, the heart of one who spends her days in prayer - all confronting a secular world with the beauty of the sacred. God’s pattern, woven in each of you, embodies the spirit of Theresa and Alphonsus and Jesus, and pieces together the spirit of IHM.
My life is spent searching for You.
Slide ever so slightly my soul
into the deep exquisite joy
of Your brilliance ablaze.
Today is a day for being drenched with God.
All days, all nights we know are so –
but on a day like this, we may go –
God-drenched awhile, under skies of peace and strength.
Sisters, today we put aside what troubles us. We pause, God-drenched awhile, to rejoice in God’s graced presence in each of you, our Jubilarians. Your quest for God has brought you to this moment, healers, peace-makers, teachers, lovers, friends. We, the Leadership Team and all who have shared this IHM journey with you, now ask God to bless you as we renew our commitment of prayerful support in community. You have touched our lives and changed us and with all our hearts we give thanks…
Eighty Years
- Sister M. Clementia Bradford
Seventy Years
- Sister M. Susan McMenamin
- Sister M. Elissa Meehan
- Sister M. Agnella Murtaugh
- Sister M. Verena O’Callahan
- Sister M. Sheila Reilly
Sixty Years
- Sister M. Andre Davoren
- Sister M. Catherine Donnegan
- Sister M. Sabine Higgins
- Sister M. St. William Lynch
- Sister Joan Mooney
- Sister M. Justa Walton
- Sister M. St. Anthony Radzikowski
Fifty Years
- Sister Theresa Bonanza
- Sister M. Leonette Bower
- Sister Joan Ciraula
- Sister M. Patrice Conlon
- Sister Maryla Farfour
- Sister Dolores M. Filicko
- Sister Joan Golden
- Sister M. St. Henry Haiss
- Sister Kathleen Hassett
- Sister Cor Immaculatum Heffernan
- Sister Ann Hughes
- Sister Eleanor Kalafut
- Sister M. Jamesann McCue
- Sister Carolyn Mullen
- Sister M. Claudette Naylor
- Sister M. Rosemaron Rynn
Twenty-Five Years
- Sister Nancy Kilmer
- Sister Anastasia Marie Quigley
