IN MEMORY OF ME

Have you ever heard the strains of a song and been immediately transported back to the first time it moved you?   Where a certain event comes to mind or feeling envelopes you?  I wasn’t even born when Glenn Miller’s ‘Moonlight Serenade’ was written but I practically swoon when I hear those opening chords. 



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In Ven. Maria Celeste’s life that ‘strain’ was being a “Viva Memoria,’ a Living Memory of Jesus.  She just didn’t remember Jesus, she experienced him in her inner most being.  And with that awareness of his intimate presence she was transformed into a living image of the Redeemer.  In all the moments of her life: the joys, the sorrows, the struggles, she strove to live by participation-union the life of the Redeemer doing all “In Memory of Me” who so loved her and the world he created. 

Being a Viva Memoria is akin to what happens in the Eucharist when we hear the words, ‘Do This in Memory of Me,’ where what is remembered becomes, in the very remembering, the actual Real Presence.   Likewise, when we live “In Memory of Me,” we carry on the loving, salvific plan of God by becoming, in our own time and place, a Christ for the world.

Remember your beginnings.  What ‘strains of song’ echo in your heart from when you first heard the call to live, “In Memory of Me?”

WE REMEMBER LITANY

We remember our first beginnings:  The 1987 Rosary Bible Group and

Sr. Mary Regina who used her gifts and talents to gather women

to the monastery to share our charism. 

Response: God in heaven be thanked.

We remember our first Associates: Loretta Murphy, Helen Walshe,

Marie Marshall, Kay Watzka, Betty Stevens, Marie Schmidt, Joan Duffy

and all the other women who shared our charism.             

Response: God in heaven be thanked.

We remember those who continue to live the Viva Memoria though they

have moved onward in life:  Nancy Romano, Cecilia Arboleda, Mary Vitti,

Joann Bernardo, Doreen Campbell, Gloria McCasland, Mary Quinn and all

others who graced this monastery.

Response: God in heaven be thanked.

We remember the Associates who have gone to their heavenly reward:

Kathleen Frase, Nancy Moffet, Beverly Tobasco and all our beloved family

and friends who lived “In Memory of Me.”

Response: God in heaven be thanked.

For all of our present day Associates who carry on God’s plan of

love and strive to be “Viva Memoria,” a Christ for others.

Response: God in heaven be thanked.

For the Redemptoristines Nuns in their new location, may they

attract new vocations and Associates to share the charism of the

Most Holy Redeemer.

Response: God in heaven be thanked.

ASSOCIATES, INC.

Setting sail

from the shore

can be frightening

and exciting.

We challenge

the future,

we rely

on the past



Marguerite Violanti



We have had

direction

from the best,

spiritual, practical,

sensible.

The sisters

who devote

their lives

to being

A Living Memory.

But, as all things

in life –

change happens-

the Sisters

will be gone

They are still

with us

in Spirit

and computer.

We must now

continue

and demonstrate

their good works.

© ee jeszeck  2/18/12