Annual events and ceremonies at the Congrégation de Notre-Dame during the mid-twentieth century: interview with Sister Denise Lamarche
Sister Denise Lamarche recalls events and ceremonies at the Congrégation de Notre-Dame during important annual feasts around the 1950s.
She remembers that on New Years Day the parlour of the Mother House would be bustling. The Sisters welcomed their relatives there at a time when they did not go to visit family. On January 25, as well as on the 25th of each month, a procession was made to the Infant Jesus of Prague.
The month of May was the month of Mary and it was celebrated throughout the Congregation. The Sisters would bring the students to the grotto erected near the school; the rosary would be recited and texts would be read about Mary. At the Mother House, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was celebrated every day.
In June, a procession was made for Corpus Christi. Parishes where there were Sisters of the Congregation participated in the event. They prepared the altar of repose, dressed little girls like angels and invited young girls making their First Communion to scatter flowers in front of the Blessed Sacrament.
