Posted on 05/03/2021 7:36:18 PM PDT by marshmallow
Sister Jeanne Christensen, the last member of the Sisters of Mercy still working in Kansas City, packed up her electric blue Corolla and drove back to her hometown of Omaha last week, ending her order’s service here after 134 years.
Kansas City women in particular have reason to thank her and all who came before her for that service. Because the sisters showed up for us, my sisters.
They’ve been doing that since the order’s foundress, Catherine McAuley, spent her inheritance to open the first House of Mercy as a shelter and school for women and girls in Dublin in 1827. But their history in Kansas City began on Aug. 2, 1887, when Sr. Mary Agnes Dunne arrived from Kentucky to set up a home for young working women living on their own in what Sr. Kathleen O’Brien, author of a history of the Sisters of Mercy, called this “newly large and unscrupulous city.”
The sisters also opened a family residence, St. Catherine’s Home, at 11th Street and Forest Avenue. They taught generations of Kansas City children in a number of different schools, and in the early years, sometimes slept in their classrooms, since the home for women at Sixth and Cherry was so crowded.
When Christensen moved here in 1967, just a year out of college, she taught, too, and lived over the store, so to speak, in a convent on top of St. Peter’s School.
Most of her career, though, has been in building affordable housing — and, it’s no exaggeration to say, building a fairer world.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
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So very sad.....
“Last Sister of Mercy leaves KC...”
Leaves...
Yes; “thanks” to the apostates who produced and promulgated the heresies which flowed out of “Vatican II”. Look how that woman is irreverently garbed in her Vatican II Church masculine-styled, hip outfit compared the sister depicted in the photo (see article link). The comparison would be laughable if it were not so pitiful.
Listen folks: What we have today parading as the Catholic church is not Catholic, but is rather the anti-church. No wonder the fruit is wilting and nearly all gone with none to replace it.
One could however turn tp help for hopeful ideas from Novus Ordo Watch. (https://novusordowatch.org/)
Thank you for posting this.
Toldya About the Lesbian Nuns in Leavenworth [Ann Barnhardt]
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2886807/posts
Dropping the habit is bad for your spiritual health.
I thought recent thread about the buns quickly leaving for Nebraska leaving one behind. I thought religious reason. Can’t recall.
As a side note, up to the early 1960s, before the “quiet revolution” which totally secularized Quebec society, 2-3% of all women chose religious vocations
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“Thank you for posting this.”
You are welcome.
A recent related article, very insightful:
https://novusordowatch.org/2021/04/catholic-nuns-before-vatican2/
Read their constitution and original charism which were approved by the Church. The death sentence started the moment they abandoned these two fundamental and defining guiding principles and caved in to secular influences. They are not alone. Give me one priestly order or women’s congregation that in the last one hundred years hasn’t compromised its core charism. Hence the death of the consecrated life upon which the Church depends for her contemplative vigor. Lord have mercy on us!
One thing very true about those old Catholic schools and the nuns. Whoever you were, by the end of the 8th grade you could read, write, do basic artithmetic, and you clearly knew right from wrong. Neither the nuns nor the schools exist as they once did.
I went to catholic school in Houston until the 8th grade. I slept through public high school from 9th to 12th grade and still made As.
KCMO... Let’s look at the bright spots... Funhouse Pizza on 50 Highway in Raytown. Keegans Barbeque in Martin City. For the “high society” types (of which I am not) there was Stevensons Apple Orchard (fine dining, been a few times, nice food but not my cup of tea). Everybody talks about “Gates” and “Bryants”. Screw that! Keegans in Martin City or Sneads down the road in Cass County. Other than that KCMO is a place I am OVERWHELMINGLY HAPPY to say that I will NEVER go back to! They can’t even drag my dead body there!
Vatican II opened the doors and the exodus began. I had real Nuns all through grade and h.s. They were my role models. They should never have opened that door. Sad.
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