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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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To quite an extraordinary degree we laymen have been invited to serve; we have received a visitation; God through His Church is telling us things. As we have said in our CUF brochure, we believe that the Council documents on the Apostolate of the Laity and on the Church are �prophetic� in having seen that the Church is entering the �age of the laity.� That means the response of large numbers of laymen to the call to perfection; it means an awakening to the depth and totality of Christ�s call; it means a real conversion into that leaven, that salt, that light which Christ has asked-and allows-us to be, so that the world can be permeated by the spirit of the Gospel, can be raised as by leaven, can be given savor as by salt, can be illumined as by a great light shining in a great darkness. That, we believe, is the task of evangelization assigned to the laity.

H. Lyman Stebbins
March 1987

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