FOR THIS WE GIVE THANKS!

Fall 2011

We are in communion with all who have gone before us.

We give thanks for the lives of--
+ Sister Damaris' two sisters-in-law, Simone Zander and Veronica Zander

+ Brother Boniface Lazzari's mother, Hildegarde Lazzari

+ Oblate Ann Nelson's son, Benjamin Nelson

+ Oblate Emily Lardner's husband, Amando Barzola Hidalgo

+ Teri Lamson's mother, Genevieve Riedlinger

+ Peter Gerard's sister, Anne Gabriel Bastianpillai

+ Bob Mallon's wife, Roni Mallon

+ St. Placid High School graduate Suzanne Skrinar's mother Kathleen Skrinar

+ SPHS graduate Kay Belke's mother, Dolores Belke

+ SPHS graduate Fawn Purcell's mother, Pat Purcell

+ SPHS graduate Jan Rensel's mother, Jeanne Rensel

+ SPHS graduates Kathy and Nancy Feist's father, Bill Feist

+ Leonella Portmann, Theresa Hemmen and Jody Kohler, our long-time Tacoma friends; and

+ Connie Walker, our friend, and Director of Mission and Spiritual Care Services at Providence St. Peter Hospital

We give thanks for those among our extended community who are embodying Jesus' challenge to take action and bear fruit. Oblate and writer Roy DeLeon has been invited to present two workshops based on his book, Praying with the Body, at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress taking place March 22-25, 2012.

Oblate and singer Ken Peterson has established a beautiful and meaningful blog online called Compline Underground.

It took 60,000 Frequent Flyer miles to purchase an airline ticket for Sister Anamaria Haule to travel home to Tanzania. We have received a promise of Award Miles to fly Sister Redempta Ndunguru to Tanzania in June of 2012. Thank you, Larry Erickson!

We give thanks for the St. Placid High School Class of 1984, who gathered at St. Placid Priory for their 30th class reunion. Those who attended included JoAnne Bilderback Staybaugh, Cecilia Felix Mikler, Shelley Matychowiak McDermott, Maria McGrath Jennings, Susan Richied Garoutte, Danielle Sauley Mische and Mary Wood Spisak. Through the Internet and Facebook all in the class were connected! It was lovely to see them and catch up again.

We give thanks for all those who are connected to St. Placid Priory and our ministries.

Some of our friends may remember Sister Daniella Nyambo, who came to St. Placid Priory to improve her English. She is a member of the St. Agnes, Chipole community. When she left us she returned home for a short time, then came back to the United States to attend Silver Lake College in Wisconsin. She was living with the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

Sister Daniella was doing well in school when she was diagnosed with cancer. She received treatment, and this June it was decided that she should return home to Tanzania to be with her community. We ask your prayers for Sister Daniella, for her healing and for her comfort.

As always, we give thanks for your generosity and goodness to us, which enables us to continue our ministry to all who come to St. Placid Priory and the Priory Spirituality Center.

How You Can Help

If you would learn more, ask the animals and they will tell you.
Ask the birds of the air and they will tell you. --Job 12:7-12

+ Part of the Beauty of being at St. Placid Priory is connecting with Nature: the Priory gardens, trees, deer, raccoons, coyotes and birds. Sisters, guests and retreatants all enjoy the birds that come to our feeders outside the dining room windows at the Priory. Do you, too, have a heart for the natural world? If you've been looking for a way to help out at the Priory, would you consider providing birdseed for our feeders? This would be a wonderful way to help us praise God in all creation!

+ Each day at Morning Praise, our Prioress Sister Maureen O'Larey blesses us. Please join us in the many ways we can bless one another--friends, families, neighbors and strangers.

May you experience with us
the deep satisfaction and joy that
comes from sharing and from serving others!

To contact Sister Sharon, you may write to her at 500 College St NE, Lacey WA 98516; call her at 360-438-1771; or .

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