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The California Grapevine •• Several groups visited Notre Dame Center in Thousand Oaks over the summer including our German sisters and several sisters from the Chardon and Toledo, Ohio provinces who came for a retreat called Becoming Fire. •• Sister Mary Patricia Dorobek, Justice Peace and Integrity of Creation coordinator for all four provinces, came from Rome to California to present on her many projects. •• The Women’s Rotary Club of Oxnard requested an educational presentation on human trafficking from the sisters, which Sister Betty Mae Bienlein and Sister Valerie Marie Roxburgh happily provided in August. •• The California province celebrated its 90th anniversary on August 30. •• Sister Cristina Marie Buczkowski began teaching at Saint Mary Magdalen School in Camarillo this fall. She joins Sister Louise Marie Hlavac (Saint Rose of Lima School, Simi Valley), Sister Jane Marie McHugh (Saint Dominic School, Eagle Rock) and Sister Donna Marie Appert (Saint Helen School, Southgate) in their local teaching ministries. •• Notre Dame Center in Thousand Oaks is currently under construction. One major project in progress is the conversion of office space into a spiritual direction center.
•• Several Sisters of Notre Dame were present at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in downtown Los Angeles for a mass in recognition of immigrants to the United States, including unaccompanied children from Central America. •• Sister Jan Marie Villalobos temporarily returned to the California province. She works at the Diocesan Catholic Children’s Home, Center for Children and Families, in Fort Mitchell , Kentucky. •• Father Godfrey Tuhairwe, pastor at Ugandan Martyrs Parish in Buseesa, Uganda, visited the sisters in Thousand Oaks for a month and gave mission talks at several parishes. •• Sister Mary Teresita Keliher, Sister Mary Antonine Manning and Mayra Martinez, postulant with the Sisters of Notre Dame, will each assist an archdiocesan priest in the Teachers and Preachers program this year. The Teachers and Preachers program helps priests prepare homilies in their non-native language(s). •• La Reina High School admitted nine Chinese students for the 2013-2014 school year and welcomed 10 more Chinese students and one South Korean student for the 20142015 year. Ms. Robin Fontana is the Director of International Students and Support Services.