Article By: Rachel Foote, Archivist & Sister Rosina Conrotto, PBVM; Photographs By: Sister Virginia King, PBVM On September 11, 2019, Presentation Sisters, Associates, family, friends, and former students gathered to celebrate Sister Euphemia O’Connor, PBVM, as she turned 100 years old. The festivities began in the morning at a special Mass and breakfast with Sisters […]
By Kay Sweeney, Associates Program Facilitator At its June 2019 Assembly, the Presentation Community welcomed Katherine Valenzuela Sias, Yolanda Santillan, and Patricia Diaz as new Associates. All are graduates of Our Lady of Loretto High School, Class of 1974, and active with the Loretto Friends of the Presentation Sisters. By becoming Associates, they have now […]
On July 1, 2019 the Sisters in the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco gathered for a special tea honoring Sister Kieran O’Connor, PBVM on the 80th Anniversary of her entrance into the congregation. Four of the sisters in attendance had been students in Sister Kieran’s first grade class. Little did they know then that their […]
“As Associates and religious on a journey together, we share PRAYER, or active communication with God, MUTUALITY, the shared relationship between each of us for the mutual benefit of all of us, INSPIRATION, literally, “breathing in” the grace of God, and FRIENDSHIP, knowing, esteeming, and loving each other.” ~Bay Area Conference of Associates and Religious […]
Text and Photographs courtesy of Sister Rita Jovick, PBVM On the evening of May 24, 2019, the Sisters of the Presentation, San Francisco extended their spirit of hospitality to 15,000 unique new residents. For the next several months, the beautiful chapel garden in the center of the Motherhouse will be home to a colony of […]
