Religious Sisters from the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens celebrated their anniversaries of religious life at a Jubilee Mass and dinner with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio at the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston on Sunday, May 31.
Bishop DiMarzio with Our Lady of Sion Sister Celia Deutsch, celebrating 50 years; Daughter of Wisdom Sister Ann Gray, celebrating 60 years; and Little Sister of the Poor Sister Mary James Hewitt, celebrating 50 years. (Photos by Marie Elena Giossi)
Mercy Sisters marking significant anniversaries with Bishop DiMarzio. At left, 60-year jubilarian Sisters Regina Williams and Amelia Seidl. At right, 60-year jubilarian Sister Margaret Mary Donnelly, and golden jubilarian Sister Eileen Trainor.
Bishop DiMarzio celebrates with Holy Union Sisters, at left, Sister Eileen Lavin, 60 years, and at right, Sister Alice Rees, 65 years.
Bishop DiMarzio congratulates golden jubilarian Sisters of St. Joseph, Sister Elizabeth Anne Hill, left, and Sister Loretta Ann McGrann.
Sisters of St. Joseph marking their 60th anniversaries, at left, Sisters Mary Margaret Powell, Nora Mary McNiff, Gloria Lydia Agnese, Patricia Ann Walsh, Theresa Ann Grant and Mary Rose Feeney with Bishop DiMarzio, and at right, Sisters Patricia Casey, Margaret Mary Raibaldi, Rosemary Anne Kern, Bernadette Jane Westman, Carole Therese Fitzpatrick and Mary Ann Theresa McCarthy.
Bishop DiMarzio extends his best wishes to Sisters of St. Dominic on their 50th and 60th anniversaries. At left, 60-year jubilarian Sisters Theresa McDermott, Kathryn Walsh and Ann Kohlhaupt. At right, golden jubilarian Sisters Julianne Connolly, Alice Byrnes and Francis Ann Gorman.
Bishop DiMarzio congratulates the silver jubilarian Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy, from left, Sisters Mary Nnamdi Chukwu, Nora Marie Chiagoro and Mary Sedes Ucheagwu.
Sisters of St. Joseph marking 70th anniversaries, Sisters Josephine Adams, left, and Patricia Maris Tully.
Bishop DiMarzio honors 60-year jubilarian Sisters of St. Joseph, at left, Sister Anne Burke, and at right, Sister Teresa Collins.