Franciscan Missionary Sisters lose oldest member
Sr. Mary Cecilia Lee: August 19, 1920 â March 20, 2021 Leaving Our Lady of Peace Retreat House, Beaverton, to do parish work in Taiwan in September 1972 were Sister Theresa Kuo and Sister Cecilia Lee, fourth and fifth from left. They had come to the United States from China two decades before. New on the retreat house staff were, from left, Sister Angela, Sister Gemma, who also came from China in 1952, and Sister Mary Carol. A mission booth at Knights of Columbus benefit barbecue helped pay expenses for Sisters journey to Taiwan. (Catholic Sentinel archives) 3/23/2021 11:19 AM
select Sr. Cecilia is one of three women of Our Lady of Peace pictured in the Resurrection Garden mural at Our Lady of Peace Retreat House. She is in her wheelchair, between Franciscan Sr. Chiara Melendez, representing the vigorous present of the order, and Ruth Shepherd, a member of the Franciscan Girl
Gov. Bill Lee wants Tennessee to be a pro-family state.
With that objective, while overseeing a state government flush with cash, the Republican governor this year has put hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money where his mouth is.
But there is something a state revenue surplus can t buy: People willing to take in the hundreds of children in Tennessee who have been removed from their homes and are in need of families.
Lee s executive departments can’t offer traumatized children an equal substitute for someone opening their home. The state alone cannot replicate a stable, loving family for children in need of a permanent place to live.
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SMYRNA, Tenn. (AP) — Soldiers from the Tennessee National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 181st Field Artillery Regiment, deployed on Sunday for a 10-month tour of the Middle East.
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