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BVM Profess Perpetual Vows |
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Ann Therese Chaput, BVM professed final vows in a joyful Easter liturgy at Marian Hall, Dubuque. I was attracted to a life of prayer and to missionary work while still in elementary school. While I responded to that call in a variety of ministries, it has been with the BVMs that I have found community and ministry in the charism to be free and help others to be free in God's steadfast love,' says Ann Therese. For the past three years, she has been Director of the good Shepherd Catholic Center in Lowndes County, Ala. Ann Therese shares community with retired BVM Frances Schaeffer (Louis) in Mosses, a small town in rural, south central Alabama where the Center is located. A Chicago native, Ann Therese was an elementary school principal in the Chicago area for 20 years, taught high school theology, and has done mission work in the Caribbean. In the charism of Mary Frances Clarke, there is a way of living as well as ministering that reaches out to those who are marginalized, even forgotten, she adds. I rejoice that I profess my vows forever to be Sister to those we are called to serve in the Gospel: the poor, the homeless, the uneducated, the sick, the elderly, the hungry, and especially as a BVM, women and children. Return to Table of Contents. |
