Jul 18, 2022
https://www.ssmo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sisters_of_st._mary_of_oregon_jubilee_trailer-1080p.mp4 The Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon celebrate Jubilee Seventy-five years in the same career. Can you fathom it? Sister Clare Vandecoevering can. She joined the...
Jul 15, 2022
“God was always part of our life as a family. However, it took 27 years before I could say, ‘Yes,’ to religious life.” said Sister Juana Gutierrez, a Sister of St. Mary of Oregon. This July, Sister Juana will celebrate 25 years of service to God during the Sisters...
Jul 15, 2022
Born in 1930, Sr. Clare Vandecoevering felt an early call to God’s service — in the first grade. She considered herself a regular kid who enjoyed playing, talking with friends and even finding herself standing in the corner for socializing a little too much in...
Jul 15, 2022
“Everything is a gift from God,” says Sister Julie Doan, as she reflects on the journey that led her to the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon. “My call to be a religious sister was postponed a couple of times, but the Sisters’ warm and welcoming spirit captured me.” This...
Jul 15, 2022
Sister Patricia Lulay said she was literally “born into the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon.” She was one of nine in her family, always surrounded by religious women and priests in Sublimity, Oregon. When she was in third grade, her teacher, Sister Beatrice Rigert,...
Jul 15, 2022
Sister Theresa Ann Bunker celebrates seven decades of service to God this July, during the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon’s Jubilee celebration. Sr. Theresa Ann was born on Nov. 5, 1933, at her family farm home in Dayton Prairie, Oregon, in Yamhill County. Her birth...
