Sister Marie de Lourdes Kuroki (Noriko) is a member of our LA Province. She is from Tokyo, Japan and entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 2019. She has lived in the communities of Tsu, Philadelphia, and now Los Angeles. After Noriko's first profession of vows, she was sent to St. Francis Xavier Church near Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. She is living in the Carondelet community and ministering with joy each day.
This Lenten season, I am being asked to do things that I never thought I could do, things that I thought were beyond my strength and ability to do, and a number of other things that I had not planned are happening one after another, but I try to answer “Yes” to these things without saying “I can’t.”
今年の四旬節は、思いもよらなかったことを頼まれたり、自分の体力や能力では到底無理だと思われることをしたりと、自分の計画外のことが次々と起きているが、それらについて「できません」と言わず、「Yes」と答えるように心がけている。
私がミニストリーをしているロサンゼルスの聖フランシスコ・ザビエル教会では、1月21日にエルショフ司教様をお迎えしてミサと新年会が行われました。十数名のCSJのシスターが出席されたことは、教区の人たちにとって大きな喜びでした。
St. Francis Xavier Church in Los Angeles, where I do ministry, welcomed Bishop Elshoff on January 21 for Mass and a New Year’s party. It was a great joy for the parishioners to have more than a dozen Carondelet Sisters attending.
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet are a congregation of Catholic sisters. We, and those who share our charism and mission, are motivated in all things by our profound love of God and our dear neighbors. We seek to build communities and bridge divides between people. Since our first sisters gathered in 1650, our members have been called to “do all things of which women are capable.” The first sisters of our congregation arrived in St. Louis, Missouri in 1836, and we now have additional locations in St. Paul, Albany, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Japan and Peru. Today, we commit to respond boldly to injustice and dare to be prophetic.