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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Diamond Jubilee is really here!!

Today is the day and I really felt that I should be lighting another candle on the Advent wreath as the evening Mass will be that of the Third Sunday of Advent. I will renew my vows  that I made sixty years ago today to follow Jesus Christ in the Society of the Sacred Heart by perpetual obedience, poverty, and chastity...

I remember the day so vividly that it seems strange to think that sixty years have passed. They have been wonderful years full of joy and suffering, but always with Jesus who is my joy and strength. I am just grateful that I have been able to serve God in the Society of the Sacred Heart and know that the twenty years in Chile was a special grace for me as well as the months I had before my final profession at the Trinita dei Monti in Rome. Teaching in Peru was another grace as well as the years giving retreats and spiritual direction and the grace of having made several thirty-day retreats myself. I just have so much to be grateful for and want to keep on living each day in gratitude and joy. Let us pray for one another that we may give joy to all around us.

3 comments:

Silvana rscj said...

Congratulations, Helen, and thank you for sixty years of loving fidelity and service. Ad multos annos!

Maureen Elizabeth Ryan (MER) said...

Congratulations to you dear Sr. Rosenthal as you celebrate your Diamond Jubilee. I wish you many blessings this advent season and most especially today on this special anniversary. In the Heart, Maureen

Anonymous said...

Many congratulations to you! The Society of the Sacred Heart is lucky to have a woman of such strength and faith in its midst. Thank you for your many years of service!
- A Sacred Heart alum in DC