In the late 1950’s and well into the 70’s, the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Corondelet had quite a presence in Atlanta and Augusta. I had them at my elementary school in Atlanta, St. Anthony’s and when we moved to Augusta at St. Mary on the Hill School.
They also taught at Aquinas High School in Augusta and owned and ran St. Joseph Hospital there.
In Augusta, throughout the 1960’s between the teaching and nursing Sisters there must have been almost 40 Sisters of St Joseph, most of them young sisters.
Here is what the teaching sisters looked like when I had them in the late 50’s and 1960’s:
Today, in Atlanta and Augusta there isn’t a single Sister of Saint Joseph to be found. They sold their Catholic hospital in Augusta many years ago to a for-profit corporation.
I wonder if the video I link from a very recent closing “trilingual” Mass for their Chapter at their motherhouse chapel in St. Louis, which is very happy, clappy and joyful, but actually quite sad on many levels, is the cause of their demise? Not a young sisters to be found there; it is a nursing home scene with the elderly thinking they are still young and vibrant. I remember the sisters who taught me telling us about how beautiful their motherhouse and chapel in St. Louis was. Like their religious life, they wreckovated that too.
5 comments:
Vomit inducing!
I truly feel bad for some of the older sisters who have not been willing participants in the "changes." They are victims
A beautiful chapel. I wonder if it will be Condo'd in a few years due to the lack of religious living there!
They look like crazies in an asylum
It has been increasingly documented how modern psychology destroyed many religious communities, practically overnight, in the ‘60s and ‘70s. I wonder if these sisters were also swept up in that tragic maelstrom…
Nick
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