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Permanent Things
Mother Wendy's Mission

by Emily Stimpson
photos © 2008 Sarah M. Rozman

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A statue of the Sacred Heart, given to the sisters by a priest from Columbus, Ohio, watches over them as they cook, eat, and spend time with visitors.


Mother Wendy at the sisters’ wardrobe of vestments.


Mother Wendy holds a rescued vestment.


The statue of St. Joseph and the Child Jesus watch over the sisters’ basement library and office area.


A confessional sits amidst other liturgical and household items in the sisters’ warehouse.


Mother Wendy, in the sisters’ warehouse, holding a plaque of the 6th Station of the Cross, from a set donated to the sisters.


Backed by a forest of pews, St. Francis of Assisi, the Sacred Heart of Jesus (center), and St. Joseph and the Child Jesus (far left) await a new church.


More rescued statues of saints, stored safely in the sisters’ warehouse.


The bells traveled across Ohio to the convent from a closed parish in Cincinnati.


The sisters’ convent.

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I also agree that the laity generally are still too passive (that is, when they’re not too aggressively active!). That is really one of the basic reasons for the existence of CUF: to be a little alarm clock to wake people up, and then a center around which they can rally, and act in the way befitting members of Christ’s true Church. . . . The situation keeps changing, and it’s important that the laity try to act under some kind of coordination, which only an organization like CUF can provide.

H. Lyman Stebbins
March 1, 1973