School Sisters of Notre Dame Accept Novice
September 25, 2008
Limétèze Pierre-Gilles became a novice of the School Sisters of Notre Dame at a ceremony on Sept. 12 at Villa Notre Dame on Belden Hill Road. Her Haitian family, who traveled from Florida where they now live, was present. More than 100 School Sisters of Notre Dame of the Atlantic-Midwest Province welcomed Limétèze as Provincial Leader S. Kathleen Cornell, S.S.N.D., invited her to begin two years of formation that will lead to her making her first vows as a woman religious.
The invitation was the culmination of Limétèze’s year of postulancy, which she experienced at the formation house in Brooklyn, N.Y. In both Creole and English, Limétèze spoke of her desire to enter more deeply into a relationship with God, a hope she expressed in the theme she chose for the reception: “Avance au Large,” or “Go into the Deep.”
Limétèze will experience this time of spiritual deepening at the S.S.N.D. motherhouse in St. Louis, Mo., where she will live with two other novices, one from from Dallas, Tex., and one from Mankato, Minn. She became acquainted with the School Sisters of Notre Dame in the Palm Beach Diocese of Florida, where she met sisters ministering to the needy at St. Ann Parish in Lake Park, Fla.
The School Sisters of Notre Dame are an international congregation of women religious, with more than 3,600 sisters ministering in 36 countries worldwide. In the Atlantic-Midwest Province, nearly 700 sisters minister in roughly 35 diocese in states from Massachusetts to Florida to Illinois. Information: www.amssnd.org.