Anna Kalinowski is Named Sister Anna Rose

October 28, 2001. Meriden, Connecticut

Anna Kalinowski, formerly of Hermantown, Minnesota, was received into the novitiate of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist on Sunday, October 28, by Mother Rosemae Pender, Mother General. Miss Kalinowski will be known in religious life as Sister Anna Rose. Her name is in memory of Sister Rose Cecile Korst of the Duluth, Minnesota, center who died in 1996. Sister Rose Cecile was one of the first Franciscan Sisters whose influence led Anna to consider a religious vocation.

Sister Anna Rose is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kalinowski of Hermantown, Minnesota. For the past 17 years, she was employed by Advanstar Communications, an international b-to-b communications company, in its Duluth, Minnesota and Milford, Connecticut offices. She was responsible for the production of various trade magazines, and in the last two years, as a contract manager, she acted as liaison between the production operations department and the sales staff and provided training and sales support for Advanstar offices across the US and in England.

In the ceremony marking Sister's entrance into novitiate, Mother Rosemae Pender, Mother General, remarked that it is a positive, counter-cultural statement for a woman who has known obvious professional experience and success to ask to be received into the novitiate. "It is a Call, a vocation from God," she explained. With this step, Sister Anna Rose received the habit and veil of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist. She will enter a more intense time of training in Franciscan spirituality and religious life in preparation for making vows of chastity, poverty and obedience.

The entire FSE Community welcomes Sister Anna Rose!