St. Lucy, born in 1672, taught religion to poor Italian girls as her first mission.
was a teenage nun assigned to Holy Rosary School, Jersey City, when I was in second grade. Today, she is the Mother General of the Maestre Pie Filippini in Rome, leading 700 religious sisters serving in eight countries around the world.
“The entire history of our institute, spanning over three centuries, has been characterized by the particular closeness and protection of the Holy See,” Tizzano told Pope Francis in a public address at the audience. “And for this reason, we have the privilege of being called ‘Pontifical Institute of the Religious Teachers Filippini.’”St.
Sister Mary Elizabeth Lloyd, the community’s secretary and mission coordinator, noticed that Francis took particular interest in Tizzano’s talk because he could detect that she was a novice Italian speaker and was trying very hard to speak correctly. “She knew how to teach so many people, first of all because she did not cease to be a disciple of Jesus,” he said. “Her educational mission was nothing but her mystical experience.”
I recalled first meeting Sister Cecilia Rotondo, my first-grade teacher, and she looked like any woman just wearing a black bonnet and wearing a long, black dress, which differed from the way most religious sisters of the day looked.Before Vatican II, Holy Rosary Church was the central gathering place of hundreds of families with the school as our second home. And the same could be said of the other Filippini schools in Hudson County: Mt.
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