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Permanent
Things
Mother Wendy's Mission
by Emily Stimpson
photos © 2008 Sarah M. Rozman
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A statue of the Sacred Heart, given to the sisters by a priest
from Columbus, Ohio, watches over them as they cook, eat,
and spend time with visitors.
Mother Wendy at the sisters’ wardrobe of vestments.
Mother Wendy holds a rescued vestment.
The statue of St. Joseph and the Child Jesus watch over the
sisters’ basement library and office area.
A confessional sits amidst other liturgical and household
items in the sisters’ warehouse.
Mother Wendy, in the sisters’ warehouse, holding a plaque
of the 6th Station of the Cross, from a set donated to the
sisters.
Backed by a forest of pews, St. Francis of Assisi, the Sacred
Heart of Jesus (center), and St. Joseph and the Child Jesus
(far left) await a new church.
More rescued statues of saints, stored safely in the sisters’
warehouse.
The bells traveled across Ohio to the convent from a closed
parish in Cincinnati.
The sisters’ convent.
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