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Catholic San Francisco
October 10, 2003
On The Where You Live by Tom Burke St. Thomas the Apostle Parish is celebrating 80 years of “serving God and community” with monthly commemorative Masses through December. Men and women who entered religious life or the priesthood from St. Thomas are being honored Oct. 19. Among those being remembered are women religious including St. Joseph of Carondelet Sisters Jean Katherine de Blois, Noreen Joseph Doyle, Mary Lovia Escobosa, Patricia Ann Gilligan, Karla Ann Kvale, Mary Murphy, William Mary Murphy, Roberta Nuttall, Mary Dorothea Quinn, Christine Robertson, the late Sister Claire Doyle; Holy Names Sister Elizabeth Adams; Sacred Heart Sister Helen Hammack; Presentation Sisters Mary Ann Healy, Nancy Healy, Kathleen Healy, Doreen Healy; Holy Family Sister Jean Kathleen Shanahan; Daughters of Charity Sister Kathleen Sullivan; Mother Stella Marie Swendsen, a Poor Clare; Mercy Sisters Mary Nicole Vavuris and Marian Rose Power; and Sacred Heart Missionary Sisters Maura Walsh and Miriam Walsh. Father William O’Connell, retired pastor Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Belmont, his brother, Father Joseph O’Connell, retired pastor, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, Mill Valley, and Jesuit Father Edward Stackpoole are among the men who went on to priesthood from the Richmond District Parish. Permanent Deacon Joe Symkowick of the Diocese of Sacramento, grew up in the parish and will serve as homilist at next week’s liturgy. (See Datebook) …Was comforted by the words of Msgr. Harry Schlitt, vicar for administration of the Archdiocese, who reminded in a recent homily that “God’s resources are always greater Holy Names Sister Miriam Jeanne Murphy than
St. Monica’s, now resides at her congregation’s residence in Los Gatos, mailing address, P.O Box 1906, Los Gatos 95131….Congrats to Holy Names Sister Colleen Kern, new prez of the Marin 49er Booster Club. Born in San Rafael and raised in Fairfax, Sister Colleen has taught at St. Anselm’s and St. Raphael’s and currently teaches at St. Isabella’s. The flock of fans she now heads has about 100 members….Happy 25 years married September 30th to Tina and Dave Barsi of San Francisco’s Epiphany Parish. They took their vows at the Mission District’s St. James Church as did Dave’s folks, Mary and the late Ralph Barsi when they married 61 years ago. First in line to wish Tina and Dave well and many more are their daughters Angie, Vanessa and Gia, all grads of Epiphany Elementary and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, as well as the messengers St. Joseph Sister Ann Coronas and Father Dan Maguire, pastor, of this good news…. Birthdays, births, anniversay all are welcome to the ongoing series of events saries, marriages, engagements, new jobs and all commemorating the history of San Francisco’s kinds of goings-on are welcome here. Remember St. Thomas the Apostle Parish. this is an empty space without ya’. Send items and a follow up phone number to On the Street Where our needs.”…Married 50 years ago September 12th at Sts. You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Fax (415) 614Peter and Paul Church were Jean and Gig Ghiglieri. Jean 5633; e-mail tburke@catholic-sf.org. Do not send attachtold me she is a lifelong North Beach resident and Gig spent ments except photos and those in jpeg, please. You can reach the first six months of his life in Oakland before his family Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634... “came to their senses” and moved to the well-known neighborhood. A family dinner hosted by children Ruth Bolender and husband Gary, and Michael and wife Gerri marked the milestone. Grandchildren are Mike and Gerri’s son and daughter, Matthew and Michelle, a junior and freshman at San Francisco’s Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School….“It has been 29 marvelous and gracefilled years,” said Holy Names Sister Miriam Jeanne Murphy on her service as teacher, music director and organist at San Francisco’s St. Monica Parish and school. Sister Miriam Jeanne, a religious for 55 years, retired in June. She said she is “especially grateful” to Father John Greene, pastor of St. Monica’s since 1999. “Father Greene has been most supportive, he is great in capital letters,” Sister Miriam Jeanne said. “We are very honored to have had Sister Miriam Jeanne at St. Monica’s as organist and choir master,” Father Greene said. “She is a very talented woman.” The St. Monica’s community gathered to pray for and bid farewell to Sister Miriam Jeanne on Pentecost Sunday. “This is a wonderful InStyle is the theme of November’s fashion extravaganza parish with wonderful parishioners,” Sister Miriam benefiting St. Ignatius College Preparatory School. Jeanne said, noting that the number of weddings and Taking a moment from their chairperson duties with SI funerals she has provided music for during her three president, Jesuit Father Tony Sauer, are, from left, Becky decades at the Richmond District church number “in Loback, Isabella Lanza and Tina McGovern. (See Datebook) the hundreds.” Sister Miriam Jeanne, who grew up in
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