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ALESHA M. PRICE Staff Writer
visiting priest
Western North Carolina
in
little
WINSTON-SALEM place, says
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—
Many
people wish they had her spunk. She seems, to go non-stop, and her coworkers, friends and the women religious in her sister community wonder where this 83-year-old gets her energy. She describes herself as a old nun doing the Lord's work," while the patients and workers at the hospital where she performs her ministry call her the "Mother Teresa of "little
Cardinal Hickey surprised
by honorary degree
Baptist Hospital."
15
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Sister of St. Joseph
Gamber laughs
Living the Faith In Italian film, knights "on
embark
medieval quest for shroud
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comparison. "I am old and wrinkled like her, but that is where the similarity ends," she humbly joked. "I can't even be mentioned in the same sentence with her." Sister Dennis, a parishioner of St.
Leo the Great Church in WinstonSalem, hails from Pennsylvania, where she attended an all-girls' school. It was one of her teachers, a
Local Newt
Sister of St. Joseph of Pa.,
Bishop
air
5
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Mission community grows with multi-cultural
who
Chestnut
Hill,
inspired her to join the order
herself.
McGuinness on the
Dennis Eileen
at the
She began teaching and received her bachelor's of arts in mathematics from Chestnut Hill College in 1947. She also received her master's of arts in mathematics from Villanova University and studied physics and other subjects at Catholic University and Loyola University of New Orleans. She spent most of her life teaching high school, a profession she enjoyed immensely. When she moved to Winston-Sa-
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Gamber
presented with the Mother Teresa Memorial Award and a $500 check for AIDS Care Service from the Knights of Columbus State Council. Pictured left is Bob Singer, state deputy, and Father James Solari, pastor of St. Leo the Great Church
lem
in 1975, a decision,
is
I went into would miss
she said, that well with her immediately, she continued to teach math at Bishop
direct gift
from God," said Sister Den-
McGuinness High School and began
nis of her
work
her hospital ministry part time. "I had to get used to being away from home," she said with a smile. In 1985, she retired from teaching and began
at Baptist Hospital
did not
to
sit
work,
this it.
thought
I
But, this
work
I
a
is
as a pastoral minister
and Forsyth Hos-
pital.
talks
She visits the patients and prays, and sits with the many Catho-
work "I
full time at Baptist Hospital. loved teaching math, and when
See SISTER DENNIS, page
4
Lay Ministry graduates complete personal faith journey By
Every Week
Photo by Alesha M. Price
Sister of St. Joseph Dennis Eileen
CHARLOTTE
—
Chris and Jo
Gibbs have only recently learned what Catholicism is all about. Five years ago, Chris Gibbs came back to Catholicism after growing up Catholic but without a strong grounding in his faith. His wife, Jo, grew up Baptist and converted right before marrying. Both of them became involved with the diocesan lay ministry program to supplement the knowledge they already had.
wanted to learn more because I missed it growing up. I went to "I
of religious formation at
Sister
Mary Church
esan director of lay ministry and
in
St. Margaret Swannanoa, her in-
volvement with lay ministry is a way for her to better prepare her students. "I will use what I have learned with the faith formation classes, and me, learning about the history evolution of the church fascinates I simply wanted to learn more,"
for
Mary Timothy Warren,
women
vicar for
place."
me. she
his or her with the church, can become involved with the program. Faith formation and religion teachers as well as those who wish to become permanent deacons are required to complete the program, explained Sis-
The Gibbses were two of the 98 graduates, representing 32 parishes, of the Lay Ministry Training Program who received their certificates at a Mass and ceremony on May 13
Anyone, regardless of
affiliation
ter
Mary Timothy.
Gabriel Church in Charlotte, one of the sites for the Saturday ses-
talents given to
sions.
you
"We
at St.
church only a couple of times I can remember," explained Mr. Gibbs. "The lay ministry program is an affirmation of what I believe already and has focused my faith and understand-
the investment of their time and appreciate the generosity of family and friends in allowing
ing of the church." For Mrs. Gibbs, the coordinator
two-year commitment," said Mercy
them
commend
to participate because this
religious. "This aca-
demic program helps them to develop communicative skills and to practice their religious roles in the market-
and
said.
"I
dioc-
is
need the strength, you by God
and
gifts
who
calls
to this ministry of the church,"
said Bishop
William G. Curlin, celebrant for the Mass. "You have been commissioned to bring the joy of Christ
a
See
LAY MINISTRY,
page
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