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Community announces plans to open new centers
Plans will be solidified in the coming months and the two new centers will open in late summer or early fall. |
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Community announces plans to open new centers
Plans will be solidified in the coming months and the two new centers will open in late summer or early fall. |
MERIDEN,
CT (04-26-2006)
- Mother Shaun Vergauwen, FSE, Mother General, has announced that the
Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist plan to open two new centers
this fall. The centers will be located in Above Rocks, St. Catherine
Parish, Jamaica, and Arlington, Virginia. The Sisters who will begin
the center in Jamaica
will be working in collaboration with a group of Franciscan men from
the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. "This new venture will be
a stretch for the community and will invigorate our commitment to
mission,"
Mother Shaun commented.
The
upcoming effort in the Diocese of Arlington is in response to an invitation
of Bishop Paul S. Loverde who has requested the presence of the Franciscan
Sisters for several years. The Sisters will be engaged in diocesan-wide
apostolates. Pictured at left is Bishop Loverde with Mother Shaun Vergauwen
(left) and former Mother General, Mother Rosemae Pender.