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Daniel Wakefield, director of the Ursuline Sisters HIV / AIDS Ministry, shows the food pantry the ministry operates.
CANFIELD The Ursuline Sisters are celebrating the 20th year of the HIV / AIDS Ministry clinic that opened in May 2001.
The clinic and ministry that operate under the auspices of the Ursuline Sisters Center in Canfield has served many Valley families touched by HIV over the years.
The ministry’s director, Dan Wakefield, explained that the HIV / AIDS ministry actually has its roots almost 30 years ago.
“The ministry began in 1993 as a prayer support and bereavement ministry,” Wakefield said. “There were a lot of people affected by HIV in the area, and there was nothing available to them.”
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CANFIELD The Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown is welcoming nine new Ursuline Associates who all belong to parishes in the Diocese of Youngstown.
The Catholic adults are committed to the Sisters’ mission and ministry, and the charism of St. Angela Merici, who founded the vowed religious order in 1535 in Brecia, Italy.
She prioritized faith, education and hospitality and embraced such virtues as compassion, respect and hope.
Joining the Ursulines as associates this year are Don Clyde of Christ Our Savior Parish in Struthers, Barbie DeLucia of St. Columba and St. Angela Merici, Antonia Ross Douglass of St. Charles Parish in Boardman, Anne Schirck Kravitz of St. Charles, Cindy and James G. Lacko of St. Patrick Parish in Hubbard, Lawrence “Larry” Lutz of St. Michael Parish in Canfield, Mary C. Moon of St. Brendan Parish in Youngstown, and Thomas G. Welsh Jr. of St. Patrick Parish in Youngstown.
Feb. 18—The Ursuline Center of Toledo will shut its doors Dec. 1, its sponsoring religious community announced Thursday. The Ursuline Center at 4035 Indian Rd. is a nursing home serving religious sisters, priests, their immediate relatives, and their associates. It is a sponsored ministry of the Ursuline Sisters of Toledo, who have been contemplating the facility's future since 2018, when they .
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