Posts by Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Nun Run 2021 Thank you!
Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus extends gratitude and love to the many folks who joined us virtually for our 2021 Nun Run. All who participated – including annual and Nun Run sponsors, virtual participants, donors, and volunteers – created a virtual Nun Run that goes down in history as our most…
Read MoreCatholic Sisters Week: MSC Sisters & HGA School team up
In celebrations of Catholic Sisters Week March 8-14, The Missionary Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus invited Holy Guardian Angels Regional School to join them in an effort to feed the hungry of Reading, Pennsylvania. HGA enthusiastically agreed to team up and for two weeks prior, students and staff collected food donations in…
Read MoreFall/Winter 2020 Newsletter
Fall/Winter 2020 Newsletter
Read MoreSister Bonita Heydt, MSC (Sr. Bonnie)
1956 – 2020 Sister Bonnie was born at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown, PA where our Sisters ministered until just recently. In fact, our very own Sr. Theresa Lepera, MSC was the maternity nurse in the delivery room when Sr. Bonnie arrived in this world. Years later, when Sr. Bonnie was asked how she first…
Read More2020 Virtual Nun Run
Pandemic limitations proved to be a challenge for the annual NUN RUN 5k and 1m Fun Walk; however, because of your determination to assist MSC Sisters in any way you could, the 2020 VIRTUAL NUN RUN goes down in MSC history as the most profitable yet! Thank you for your friendship and support! Because you…
Read MoreSpring Newsletter 2020
Spring/Summer Newsletter 2020
Read MoreSr M. Colleen Birmingham, MSC
1937 – 2019 Sister Colleen grew up in a warm and loving Irish family in Philadelphia with her brother William (Bill) and her two sisters Mary and Catherine (Cass). Somehow the family became members of the German parish of St. Henry where Sr. Colleen was taught by our Sisters in the parish school. In 1958…
Read MoreSister Dorothy Columber, MSC (Sr. M. Josita)
1929 – 2019 Sister Dorothy grew up in a large family of seven brothers and two sisters. Three of her brothers died very young. Her parents came to the United States from Czechoslovakia and settled in Allentown. They were members of St. John the Baptist Slovak Catholic Church and Sr. Dorothy and her siblings attended…
Read MoreSister Maria (Maria Walburgis)- Rosa Mersch
Sister Maria (Maria Walburgis)- Rosa Mersch 1902 – 2006 Sister Maria was born at the time that our first sisters set sail for the Marshall Islands and New Britain. She embraced their spirit of sacrifice and adventure when as a postulant she, too, left home for the distant shores of America. This spirit, combined with…
Read MoreSister M. Weneburg (Weneburga) – Maria Kiiuper
Sister M. Weneburg (Weneburga) – Maria Kiiuper 1912 – 2005 Less than six months after her first vows, Sister Weneburg arrived in the United States on the Steamer Hamburg. Her older sister, Sister Floriberta, had just entered our congregation in Hiltrup. In 1936, Sister Weneburg studied nursing to meet our growing demand for nurses. Thus…
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