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Always A Missionary
By Sister Marie-Celine
Campeau, OSC
(Mission, British Columbia, Canada)
My experience took place on December 8, 1974, in a little African village called Dungu. The village was situated in the northeastern part of Zaire, a central African country that was known as the Belgian Congo from 1960 to 1971, when it became the Republic of Zaire. [...]

I Knew Him in the Breaking of Bread

By Sister Claire Marie Blondin, OSC
(Mission, British Columbia, Canada)
Having spent over a year traveling and hitchhiking around Europe and working in Switzerland, I thought it would be great to live where there were mountains and the ocean. That’s when I decided to move to Vancouver, British Columbia. On [...]

He Dwelt Among Us
By Sister Mary Colette, PCC
(Los Altos Hills, California, USA)
Vespers is the evening song of the Church. As the last cadences of the chanted psalms are heard, the sun is setting behind the surrounding hill, and a deep quiet settles upon the heart as well as throughout the monas¬tery. The community was gathered [...]

Faith and Science
Do Mix
By Sister Collen Byrne, OSC
(Spoken, Washington, USA)
When I met the Poor Clare Sisters in Spokane, I had just started an internship to be certified as a medical technologist (in other words, lab tech). The yearlong internship consisted of rotations through the various departments in the hospital laboratory. In all the different [...]

God Is Here
By Sister Catherine K. Janeway, OSC
(Evansville, Idiana, USA)
When I was 16 years old, I was a junior counselor at a summer camp inRhinebeck, New York. One day early that summer, I had a weekday off and was taken to town to spend some of my free hours there.
While in town, I felt the [...]

A New Church
By Sister Jane Deland, OSC
(Evansville, Indiana, USA)
My mother died when I was only 10 years old. She had been sick for a long time, and my sister and I grew up taking care of her. When I was 13, my dad got married in July, and for the rest of the summer, I [...]