Golden Jubilee for Mother Mary Micaela, O.P.
Bishop Bernard Fellay FSSPX celebrated a Pontifical Mass and Jubilee Ceremony this morning at 9:30 am Friday April 25th in Whanganui, New Zealand on the occasion of Mother Micaela's 50 year jubilee of religious profession.
In 1997 Mother Micaela left her former convent and came to Wanganui with the desire to retain the traditional customs of Dominican life first brought to New Zealand by the Irish Sisters in 1871.
After some years of teaching here in the schools run by the Society of St Pius X, she was joined by two young ladies from Australia who hoped that a new congregation of Traditional Dominican teaching Sisters would be founded. On 8 December 2002 Bishop Fellay gave permission for the foundation of a new Congregation, the Dominican Sisters of Wanganui, with the status equivalent to a Congregation of Diocesan Right.
Today, the Dominican Sisters of Wanganui have grown into a community of more than twenty sisters from around the world.
To view the livesteam of Mother Micaela's Golden Jubilee Pontifical Mass and ceremony, please click here.
