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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