Posts by Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

Sister M. Maureen, MSC (Mary Rose Tarafas) 1918 – 2009 Sister Maureen began life in Northampton, Pennsylvania in the loving and faith-filled home of Joseph and Sophia Tarafas, immigrants from Hungary.  Life for Mary Rose and her family centered around Our Lady of Hungary Parish where the seven Tarafas children attended the elementary school under…

Sister M. Catherine, MSC (Veronica A. Reinhart) 1915 – 2009 As the second oldest of four children, Veronica grew up in St. Henry’s Parish where our Sisters taught in the parish school.  She attended Hallahan Catholic Girls’ High School in Philadelphia.  With her parents’ blessing, she entered our congregation in 1935.  A year after her…

Sister M. Bernadette, MSC (Rose Helen Lichman) 1926 – 2009 As one of seven children, Rose grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania where our sisters taught in the elementary school of St. John the Baptist Parish.  Her devout parents gave their blessing when she asked to enter the aspirancy.  After completing her high school education in…

Sister M. Annette, MSC (Helen Juna (Dzuna)) 1918 – 2010 Sister Annette came to know the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart as her teachers in St. Michael School in Lansford, Pennsylvania.  With her parents’ blessing, she entered the newly begun aspirancy in Reading in 1932. Helen Juna was an excellent student – a seeker…

Sister Rose, MSC (M. Deodata) (Rosina Anna Lechner) 1907 – 2011 Sister Rose came to the United States as a child with her parents.  They settled with other “Burgenlanders” to work in the cement mills of Nazareth, Pennsylvania.  The Lechner family felt most at home, however, at Holy Family Parish, a church and school under…

Sister M. Mildred, MSC (Helen Imrisek) 1918 – 2011 Sister Mildred was nurtured in love and faith by her parents, both of whom emigrated from Slovakia.  They made a home for their six children in Lansford, Pennsylvania and centered their lives around St. Michael Parish where all of their children were educated by our Sisters…

Sister M. Marguerite, MSC (Mary Yech) 1922 – 2011 Sister Marguerite grew up in the home of her loving and hard-working parents who emigrated from Slovakia and found refuge among their countrymen in St. Michael Parish in Lansford, a coal-mining town in Carbon County, Pennsylvania.  Mr. Yech labored in the mines to support his wife…

Sister M. Magdolna, MSC (Irene T. Weigl) 1914 – 2011 The parents of Sister Magdolna came to the United States from Hungary and settled with their countrymen in Northampton, Pennsylvania.  They nurtured their children in the faith-filled environment of Our Lady of Hungary Parish and School.  It was here that Irene Theresa Weigl met our…

Sister M. Jeannine Racette, MSC (M. Gloria) 1934 – 2010 Sister Jeannine’s father was born in French-speaking Canada and her mother in Massachusetts. She had three brothers and one sister, Sister M. Christine, MSC who died in 2002. She was very close to her family and always looked forward to her visits home. Jeannine left…

Sister M. Canice, MSC (Maria Knaup) 1934 – 2011 Sister Canice entered the aspirancy in Hiltrup in 1927 and began her novitiate in 1933.  She arrived in the United States on the Steamer Hamburg in 1935 as an eager, newly professed Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. For the next fifteen years, with…