My aunt, Sister Mary Susan Boyle, worked years ago with the late Sister Zita, who headed the Sister Miriam Theresa League House in Convent Station, New Jersey. I used to visit the sisters, with my mother, when I was young. They are all gone now, except for my aunt. Unbelievably, the retirement home for the old sisters is now a Lutheran hospice. Statues have been removed from the sisters’ chapel. What a terrible humiliation for these old sisters. I talked to my aunt a week ago; she is so sad. I could only tell her that her mission now is to try and convert these Lutherans, one of whom, a minister, takes the sisters around in their wheelchairs.
Aleteia, Philip Kosloski: Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, in 1901, to a Ruthenian immigrant family of seven children, Teresa Demjanovich desired from an early age to dedicate her life to God in religious life. Upon graduating from the local public high school, Demjanovich wanted to join the Carmelite order in the footsteps of her name sakes, Saint Teresa of Ávila and Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, but decided to stay home to take care of her ailing mother. More here.
