Archives: Deceased Sisters

“We acknowledge the mystery of the cross on earth; may we receive the gift of redemption in heaven.” Soon after we prayed this prayer at the Community liturgy on September 14, the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross, we received...

Mary Louise Wholean, one of the first of the Teresians to come to Hawthorne and serve the newly formed Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America,  has died at St. Teresa’s house on February 19, 1917 after a long and painful...

The joyful strains of carols and the smell of incense were still in the air after the Christmas Eve liturgy as Sister Mary Hugh Walsh passed almost imperceptibly into new Life at 10:55 P.M. At the age of 93½ Sister Hugh had been...

In the presence of a group of Sisters gathered around her bedside, Sister Dorothy Walsh, quickly and faithfully, responded to the invitation, ‘Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in...

On the morning of July 8th, 1983, our Sister Mary Gloria Wagner awoke in the glorious presence of her Risen Lord. Her final hours typically reflected the spirit which had filled her almost 83 years of life. Today we gather to...