Quote Originally Posted by Galician View Post
Cute photo, Sister. Did you ever actually wear the original habit or was that a recreation? My congratulations to your Sister Rita on her golden jubilee. Ad multos annos!
Hi, Galician...

That is an authentic, original Sister of St. Joseph habit. A few of our older Sisters still wear the habit. I happened to be wearing the habit in honor of a Sister's (75th!) jubilee...we put on little plays and such to honor the jubilarians, so a habited Sister let me borrow hers (its OK...she had a spare!). The Sister who was in charge of jubilee that year recruited me to play the part of the Sister Jubilarian in her younger years...they all thought it would be fun to dress the youngest member of the community up in the "old habit". That was nearly ten years ago now (hard for me to believe!)...the Sister I was playing has entered eternity, but, like all of our Sisters, she had an amazing life story!

Thank you for your jubilee wishes for Sister Rita...I will send them on to her! She runs a center for the poor in one of Michigan's most impoverished cities (she has been doing that for approximately 15 years, after teaching for many, many years - teaching children all of the important subjects and teaching incarcerated adult men to read). Sister Joan will celebrate her 50th in 2009...she's spent 15 years teaching elementary children, 11 years as a principal, and nearly eighteen years running a parish! WOW!! I've got lots of work ahead of me to come even close to them!

Dear Moderators...I tried REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hard not to mention religion! After a quick edit and a couple of word changes, I think I made it!