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Written by Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register
Friday, 04 June 2010 08:26
TORONTO - After nearly three years of getting to know Toronto, the Sisters of Life will celebrate their newly opened Sisters of Life Centre with a special Mass and social gathering on June 12.
Visitors to the celebration will get to tour the new centre, formerly the rectory of St. Catherine of Siena parish. Renovations began last fall and the centre contains two parlours on the first floor for meeting with visitors, a kitchen and dining room, and on the second floor a chapel and six offices equipped with phones and computers for the Sisters to connect pregnant women in need with volunteers and important services.
“We’re meeting with them and help alleviate fears they may have about their pregnancy, just through being able to provide them personal support, our love and attention and practical resources and support they might need,” said Sr. Catherine Marie, one of five Sisters of Life in Toronto. “The whole heart of this mission is to love women with the whole heart of Christ and to be able to provide them with spiritual, emotional and practical support so that they can say yes to this gift of a child that is now growing within them.”
The Sisters of Life, a congregation founded in New York, established a Canadian presence in Toronto in 2007. The order spent the first year and a half discerning its focus and began helping pregnant women who were referred to them. Although the centre only opens this month, Sr. Catherine Marie said the Sisters of Life have already provided support to 80 mothers.
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Written by Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register
Friday, 04 June 2010 08:26
TORONTO - After nearly three years of getting to know Toronto, the Sisters of Life will celebrate their newly opened Sisters of Life Centre with a special Mass and social gathering on June 12.
Visitors to the celebration will get to tour the new centre, formerly the rectory of St. Catherine of Siena parish. Renovations began last fall and the centre contains two parlours on the first floor for meeting with visitors, a kitchen and dining room, and on the second floor a chapel and six offices equipped with phones and computers for the Sisters to connect pregnant women in need with volunteers and important services.
“We’re meeting with them and help alleviate fears they may have about their pregnancy, just through being able to provide them personal support, our love and attention and practical resources and support they might need,” said Sr. Catherine Marie, one of five Sisters of Life in Toronto. “The whole heart of this mission is to love women with the whole heart of Christ and to be able to provide them with spiritual, emotional and practical support so that they can say yes to this gift of a child that is now growing within them.”
The Sisters of Life, a congregation founded in New York, established a Canadian presence in Toronto in 2007. The order spent the first year and a half discerning its focus and began helping pregnant women who were referred to them. Although the centre only opens this month, Sr. Catherine Marie said the Sisters of Life have already provided support to 80 mothers.
Written by Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register
Friday, 04 June 2010 08:26
TORONTO - After nearly three years of getting to know Toronto, the Sisters of Life will celebrate their newly opened Sisters of Life Centre with a special Mass and social gathering on June 12.
Visitors to the celebration will get to tour the new centre, formerly the rectory of St. Catherine of Siena parish. Renovations began last fall and the centre contains two parlours on the first floor for meeting with visitors, a kitchen and dining room, and on the second floor a chapel and six offices equipped with phones and computers for the Sisters to connect pregnant women in need with volunteers and important services.
“We’re meeting with them and help alleviate fears they may have about their pregnancy, just through being able to provide them personal support, our love and attention and practical resources and support they might need,” said Sr. Catherine Marie, one of five Sisters of Life in Toronto. “The whole heart of this mission is to love women with the whole heart of Christ and to be able to provide them with spiritual, emotional and practical support so that they can say yes to this gift of a child that is now growing within them.”
The Sisters of Life, a congregation founded in New York, established a Canadian presence in Toronto in 2007. The order spent the first year and a half discerning its focus and began helping pregnant women who were referred to them. Although the centre only opens this month, Sr. Catherine Marie said the Sisters of Life have already provided support to 80 mothers.
catholicregister.org/canada/pro-life-sisters-to-open-new-centre
Written by Carolyn Girard, The Catholic Register
Friday, 04 June 2010 08:26
TORONTO - After nearly three years of getting to know Toronto, the Sisters of Life will celebrate their newly opened Sisters of Life Centre with a special Mass and social gathering on June 12.
Visitors to the celebration will get to tour the new centre, formerly the rectory of St. Catherine of Siena parish. Renovations began last fall and the centre contains two parlours on the first floor for meeting with visitors, a kitchen and dining room, and on the second floor a chapel and six offices equipped with phones and computers for the Sisters to connect pregnant women in need with volunteers and important services.
“We’re meeting with them and help alleviate fears they may have about their pregnancy, just through being able to provide them personal support, our love and attention and practical resources and support they might need,” said Sr. Catherine Marie, one of five Sisters of Life in Toronto. “The whole heart of this mission is to love women with the whole heart of Christ and to be able to provide them with spiritual, emotional and practical support so that they can say yes to this gift of a child that is now growing within them.”
The Sisters of Life, a congregation founded in New York, established a Canadian presence in Toronto in 2007. The order spent the first year and a half discerning its focus and began helping pregnant women who were referred to them. Although the centre only opens this month, Sr. Catherine Marie said the Sisters of Life have already provided support to 80 mothers.