Dear Parishioners and Friends,
Today a great grace has come to our parish. Today a woman
from our parish, Jen McLarin (a former cantor and choir member), will officially
enter into religious life with a community of contemplative Benedictine Sisters
at Regina Laudis monastery in Bethlehem,
CT. You may remember the news story from the AD Times which featured Jen’s
vocation journey from Director of Alumni Relations at Muhlenberg College to the
monastery.
I’m also pleased
to write that another young woman from our parish, Beth Wenck, will be joining a
religious community called the Sister of Life on August 31. Beth grew up in our
parish and has been working as a nurse at Lehigh Valley Hospital this past
year. The Sisters of Life is a contemplative/active
religious community of women founded in 1991 by John Cardinal O’Connor for the
protection and enhancement of the sacredness of every human life. They
primarily work in New York and Connecticut.
I do not know when the last time a woman from our parish
entered religious life but this is a great blessing for them and a double
blessing for all of us… and both are entering their respective time of
discernment and formation in the same month! Let us pray for more vocations to
the religious life and to the priesthood.
In Christ,
Msgr. Baker
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