Spring 2002 issue

• Marian Middle School for Girls began as the dream of a few Ursuline and Loretto sisters. Now, thanks to the collaborative support of eight communities of women religious, Marian provides young girls from low-income, inner-city families with an environment that will nurture and empower them to succeed.
• St. Louis congregations of sisters collaborate in setting up the English Tutoring Project, a unique program sponsoring sister-tutors who travel in mobile classrooms to serve immigrant and refugee children at parochial schools in South St. Louis.
• Sister Barbara Becnel, OSU of the Central Province and Sister Andre Feulner, CSJ, of Erie, Pennsylvania provide the Church’s caring presence for 500 Catholics in the village of St. Augustine and the diocese of Labrador, on the lower north shore of Quebec.
  

Autumn 2001 issue

• Ursulines from communities across Central Province join alumnae and friends at Old Ursuline down by the San Antonio River, to celebrate 150 years of Ursuline presence and ministry in the city of San Antonio.
• As the Ursulines of San Antonio respond to the needs of the 21st century, they continue to exert an influence that reaches far beyond their small numbers.
• At the beginning of August, Ursuline sisters representing 24 different Ursuline congregations/provinces from Canada, Mexico, and the United States gather in
  St. Louis, Missouri for the fourth North American Ursuline Convocation.

Spring 2001 issue

• The Ursulines of Laredo, Texas continue their outreach in Southwest Texas through catechetical ministry at the new Santa Monica Mission facility in El Cenizo, Texas.
• From Brownsville, Texas, our sisters reach across the border to serve the people of the colonias in Matamoros, Mexico.
• An Ursuline Companion in Mission, Amy Howell, describes her experience working with Hispanic women and children on both sides of the border.

Autumn 2000 issue

• The St. Louis Ursulines, with students and alums from Ursuline Academy, take Ursuline presence back to the St. Louis riverfront through a tutoring program for high-risk children and through volunteer work at the Family Center across the river in East St. Louis.
• In July 2000, Ursulines and former Ursulines of the Central Province answer a special jubilee call to a joyful reunion at the Ursuline Center in Crystal City, Missouri.
• Sister Susan Kienzler, Director of Vocation Ministries, reviews what is happening in vocations at the turn of the millennium and looks at the ways our Central Province will invite new members in the future.
  Just hours before her final profession as an Ursuline sister, Sister Emilia Villarreal records the unique story of her religious vocation.

Spring 2000 issue

• As part of celebrating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Roman Union, Central Province welcomes five young Ursulines from Asia, Mexico, and South America to Crystal City. The Center becomes home base for their six-month ESL immersion program that includes traveling to all the communities of the Central Province.As part of Exchange 2000, five Central Province Ursulines volunteer to literally “go out around the world” in service. They take with them very diverse backgrounds and skills to serve the Ursuline ministries where they are assigned.
• Peg Langen, a San Antonio alumna of 1965, reflects on her teenage service with the Ursulines in Mexico, where she learned the ideals of “Serviam” which she continues to live and promote.

Autumn 1999 issue

• A September visit with the Ursulines and their guests at Villa Maria in Frontenac, Minnesota quickly reveals why the many groups who go to the Villa find it truly
  a place “where God is Center and the world is welcome.”
• Roman Union Ursulines of the four U.S. provinces gather in San Francisco at the end of July 1999 to explore and chart their future together.
• Nine Central Province Ursulines tell us about their ministry in counseling, spiritual direction and retreat work in recent years. The experience that they share most fully is the awareness that they are walking in the footsteps of Angela Merici.

Spring 1999 issue

• In their Silver Centennial, the Ursuline sisters and alumnae of Dallas celebrate the 125th anniversary of the foundation of the Community and Academy, and the 100th of the Ursuline Alumnae Association.
• Each fall, Heritage Days at Ursuline Academy of Dallas provide the freshmen girls with the opportunity to spend time over at the convent with the sisters, learning Ursuline’s story and getting to know the sisters.
• In April, the Ursuline Center on Glennon Heights welcomes 35 Ursuline Associates from eight Central Province Associate groups. Together they share new insights and seek to connect Angela Merici’s spirituality with their lives and with the needs of the world in which they work.

Autumn 1998 issue

• Through the 1998-99 school year, St. Louis Ursulines, Associates, students,
  co-workers, alumnae and friends come together in a series of celebrations of 150 years of Ursuline presence and ministry in the St. Louis area
• In addition to coordinating campus ministry activities, the Mission Effectiveness Office at Ursuline of Kirkwood works closely with the entire Academy family to assure that the Ursuline mission, history and heritage continue to permeate every aspect of life at the Academy
• At the end of July, 450 Ursuline sisters and Associates from across the United States, Mexico and Canada gather in Cleveland, Ohio for the third North American Ursuline Convocation.

Spring 1998 issue

• In fall 1997 a new Inter-Ursuline community sponsored by five North American Ursuline congregations begins its ministry in Brownsville, Texas, among impoverished Hispanics living in the colonias on both sides of the border.
• Volunteer services provided by the Ursulines of west Texas include many forms of assistance—from prison ministry at the Dallas County Jail, literacy instruction in Dallas and Laredo, and assistance with naturalization papers in San Antonio, to religious and literacy instruction in the colonias of southwest Texas.