5 Filipina Maryknoll nuns among 11 to celebrate 50th year

MARYKNOLL, New York — Five Filipina women religious are among 11 sisters who will celebrate their 50^th jubilees with Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic this year.

Ten of the jubilees will be celebrated at a Mass to be held at the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Ossining, New York, on Sunday, August 2 at 10:30 a.m. in the Main Chapel. Another sister will celebrate the occasion at her mission site in Tanzania.

Sr. Nora Maulawin    Sr. Amelia Omana      Sr. Bibiana Bunuan

Founded in 1912, Maryknoll Sisters is the first U.S.-based congregation of women religious dedicated to foreign mission. Working primarily among the poor and marginalized in 24 countries around the world, they now number 458 members from both the U.S. and overseas.

Filipina Sisters who will be celebrating 50 years as Maryknoll Sisters include:

Sister Rosalinda Barrozo from the Philippines. Sister Rosalinda has worked with immigrants in Hawaii for nearly 40 years, and previously worked in pastoral ministry in the Philippines. Currently she is assistant spiritual director of the Filipino Catholic Club at St. Anthony’s Church, Kailua, Hawaii, where she also serves as lector and Eucharistic minister.

Sr. Imelda Bautista    Sr. Rosalinda Barrozo

Sister Imelda Bautista from the Philippines. Sister Imelda has served since 1970 in Tanzania, teaching at the university level, as well as in post-apartheid Namibia, helping improve the quality of education and the integration process in Catholic schools under the Bishops’ Conference.  She also served on her congregation’s Central Governing Board and as Congregational Treasurer.

Sister Nora Malauwin, a native of the Philippines. Sister Nora has worked primarily as a religious educator in Indonesia and in pastoral ministry in East Timor. She has also served as Creative Productions Writer for the congregation at their Center near Ossining, New York.

Sister Amelia Omaña from the Philippines. Sister Amelia has served primarily in her home country with Maryknoll Sisters. She has worked in finance, pastoral ministry, school and office administration, and with the congregation’s Donor Services Department at Maryknoll, New York.

Sister Bibiana Bunuan, a native of the Philippines, has worked locally to educate people about and bring an end to human trafficking. She is currently based in Tanzania, where she will celebrate her anniversary, and has initiated community-based health care and women’s development programs in both Tanzania and Namibia.

The other celebrants are Sister Alice Cardillo from Sayreville, Pennsylvania; Sister Susan Glass from Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Sister Shirley King from Greensburg, Pennsylvania;

Sister Connie Krautkremer from Montgomery, Minnesota; Sister Patricia Ryan from Levittown, New York; and Sister Lucia Yu from Korea.

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