An Excerpt from "She Wears a Crown of Thorns" by Rev. O.A. Boyer

On December 8th, 1928, Marie Rose Ferron took her vows as Foundress of the "Sisters of Reparaton of the Sacred Wounds of Jesus."  "Bishop Hickey approved of my Community," said Rose, when she spoke of this to Father Leonard; then she added: "And Jesus will need this community before long." 

"But Rose," answered the priest: "Will you live long enough to see it?" 

"Jesus said nothing about that," she replied, "I am willing to live or die as He wills.  As nothing is impossible to Him, He can give life to my Community, without my help, for I am nothing in His Hands.  He alone can do everything from nothing."

Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of    Thy love.

Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created.

And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Let us Pray
O God, Who by the Light of the Holy Spirit, didst instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that in the same Spirit we may be truly wise, and ever rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord.

AMEN.

Here are portraits of Sister Mary Immaculate, SR and her sister, Mother Mary of the Angels, SR. Please pray for vocations to this wonderful religious Congregation so that its mission may continue for the good of souls and the good of the Church. (The Sisters' habit was designed in the 1950s; they wear a hat as street dress and a veil in chapel; the two tones of blue are in honour of the joys and sorrows of Our Lady. The medal shows Our Lord Crowned with Thorns while the emblem shows a Cross with a crown of thorns and a dove; the motto is, "Willingly do I offer sacrifice to You, O Lord." The same design appears on the tombstone of Marie-Rose Ferron, the Sisters' inspiration.

In your charity, please pray for the Eternal Reward of Sister Mary Immaculate of the Sacred Heart, co-foundress of the Sisters of Reparation of the Sacred Wounds of Jesus.  This community received its name and inspiration from the Canadian-American stigmatist, Marie Rose Ferron, who died in 1936.  Sister made her vows with the original members in the Chapel at Graymoor on February 22, 1959 and spent the next 62 years of Religious Life living out the vocation of Reparational Love and active ministry in the Church. 

Sister was a teacher and principal in the Community’s schools in the San Diego Diocese for many years.  After the community transferred to the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon in 1972, she served generously in many different fields of the apostolate including working with Vietnamese refugees, religious education, and the many healing apostolates of the Sisters’ ministry.  She was also the faithful nurse to Mother M. Rose Therese, the Foundress and Mother Regina Rose, co-foundress and second Superior. 

Sister was a woman of deep prayer, profound peace, incredible energy.  She had extraordinary gifts of common sense, prudence and wit.  Faithful to the Sisters’ charism, she had an enormouse love of people in all their needs, and offered reparation to the Wounds of Jesus by healing the members of His Mystical Body.  Her many friends regard knowing her as one of the greatest privileges of their lives.  Her funeral Mass was live-streamed from St. Mary's Cathedral in Portland on May 12, 2021. 

Please pray for Sister’s everlasting happiness and for comfort and strength for her sister, Mother Mary of the Angels, who survives her.

Willing do I sacrifice to you, O Lord.