Institute Sisters Celebrate Jubilees and Birthdays

A group of sisters from the Institute St. Joseph (Le Puy) held a three-day gathering July 4-6 at the Centre for community meetings. They celebrated the 60th jubilees of Sœurs Marie-Frédérique Billon, Nicole Faurite, Yvonne Vallon, Eliane Massu and the 80th birthdays of Sisters Collette Philibert, Jacqueline Vole, Marie- Paule Rascle and Christiane-Thérèse Valette. Mass was celebrated by long-time friend and former pastor of Les Carmes Church, Fr. Paul Chamaly. Since the sisters arrived on the American national holiday (July 4) and before the French national holiday (July 14), we celebrated with an American-style “picnic” lunch of hot dogs, potato salad, corn-on-the-cob, green beans, and watermelon.