What’s Happening on the Hill
The following article was written by Mary Stover who works with our sisters at Assisi House, our retirement residence in Aston, Pennsylvania. Hope you enjoy it!
Happy spring to one and all! How delighted we are here at Assisi House to see the sun shining again. With trees flowering and leaves popping, we are setting our sights on many outings to enjoy the nice weather.The following article was written by Mary Stover who works with our sisters at Assisi House, our retirement residence in Aston, Pennsylvania. Hope you enjoy it!
As always the Holy Week liturgies were beautiful here and brought home to all of us how blessed we are in our faith of a loving God. It has always seemed so fitting to celebrate Easter right in the middle of spring with new life and new beginnings all around us. We hope that you enjoyed your own celebrations.
Speaking of new beginnings, we are starting on a new adventure here at Assisi House. Starting in May we will be hosting Fancy Dinners for our sisters. They will take place in our cozy country kitchens. Each event will seat 10 sisters and they will enjoy a fine restaurant experience replete with a home cooked meal, fine china, linens, glassware, silver plate and fresh flowers. We are blessed to have wonderful volunteers who answered the call to this new idea without a moment’s hesitation. Our first Fancy Dinner was held on May 3. As with any new endeavor, there was a lot of planning, meetings, and nerves involved but we are happy to announce that everything went off perfectly.| Seated at our first table are (l-r) Sr.. Kathleen Shadell, Sr. Kathleen Tobin, Sr. Marie Rachfalski (who is one of our cooks/volunteers), and Sr. Magdalene Mary Dunne. |
| Our second table welcomed (l-r) Sr. Frances Schiminsky, Sr. Manetto Ruocchio, Sr. Gloria Keltz, and Michelle Matthews (also one of our cooks/volunteers). |
| Srs. Elizabeth Scully, Alice Klein, Jordan Marie Goeke, and Stella Mary Breen finished out our group of diners.Add caption |
| Jaynie Murphy and Nancy Nath, two more of our volunteers/cooks, get a chance to sit and sample the delicious food. |
The next Fancy Dinner will take place in two months. This will be an ongoing project that will take us a while to complete. However, we will not stop until all of our sisters have had the chance to dine at our “Country Kitchen Café.”
With the warmer weather upon us, I’m sure that you, too, will be thinking about fun-filled backyard barbeques and picnics complete with your favorite foods. We hope the weather permits some sun drenched fun
