DOMINICAN LAITY Newsletter #17 July 2011 Dear members of the New Zealand Dominican family With sadness, we note the death of several Dominican sisters and friends. In the last newsletter we mentioned Sister Imelda. Sister Roxane writes of her: Our dear Sister Mary Imelda Windle died peacefully at Calvary Hospital, Invercargill on 4 May aged 97 years with three of our Sisters at her bedside. This passionate Dominican woman taught me in Form 2 in 1945 and passed on her great love for St Dominic by her enthusiasm, deep faith and commitment. During her life she encouraged the young, embraced new initiatives herself after Vatican II and worked for justice in whatever way she could. Above all she was a woman of prayer and of the WORD, preaching love, justice and peace by her life of 78 years as a professed Sister in our Congregation. She could not be at our Chapter in January but sent this message written on a card:”Be glad for all God is planning for you”. (Romans 12) May she rest in peace. Also, Sister Catherine Tither and Sister Louise Timpany both died in Dunedin in June. Also, Sister Lorraine Challis’s sister Pat, and Sr Raewyn Benzie’s mother Noreen, died in June. And Teresa McNamara’a father died in May. And in July, Colleen Hopwood’s brother Bill died in Christchurch. May all these treasured souls rest in the peace of Christ, and may their families rest in their hope in the resurrection. ………………………………………………………………………………………. PAX CHRISTI Kevin and
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