FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY THE CRISTO REY PROVINCE OF THE CANOSSIAN DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY WAS FOUNDED IN NORTH AMERICA...........

Twenty days before I started Kindergarten in 1961, the Canossian Sisters, who have served in the Sacramento Diocese since 1969, beginning in Jackson; and  in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Sacramento, from 1972, to the present; came to North America with the foundation of the Cristo Rey Province, headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This morning's 8 a.m. Mass at OLOL, in Del Paso Heights,was celebrated In Thanksgiving on this 50th Anniversary Founders Day of the Canossian Daughters of Charity's Cristo Rey Province.  OLOL's Canossian Sister Teresa Norris, was one of the original four foundresses of the Cristo Rey Province.  Today, Sister Teresa serves in OLOL Parish, catechetically, liturgically, and in the pastoral care, of the sick.  To the five Canossians currently serving in parishes in the Sacramento Diocese, not only here at OLOL; but in St. Joseph's Parish, Lincoln; and the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament; Sister Felicity, Sister Teresa, Sister Lisa, Sister Eliza, Sister Jenny, we offer prayers of thanksgiving, and a vote of appreciation, for the half century of ministry the Cristo Rey Province has provided the People of God in North America...........Fr.  Troy