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Sister Teresita Bernad
Celebrates Golden Jubilee |
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Saturday, March 29, 2007, was a day of celebration and
rejoicing in Ozamiz City, in the Southern Philippines when
relatives and friends of Sister Teresita Bernad gathered
to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of her Profession as a
Columban Sister. |
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Teresita is the youngest of a renowned Catholic family in Ozamiz. Her father was Governor of the Province of Misamis Occidental and her brother, Fernando, was Mayor of Ozamiz City for two terms. Her sister Regina, also a Columban Sister, is still active in ministry in Ozamiz while her brother, Fr. Miguel, contributed much as professor, editor, author and historian to Philippines scholarship during his lifetime. For her Primary and High School, Teresita attended Immaculate Conception College which was administered by Columban Sisters (now La Salle University). She then attended the University of Santo Tomas in Manila where she obtained B.S.E. degree. After graduation she taught in her Alma Mater until 1955 when she entered the Novitiate of the Columban Sisters in Hyde Park, Ma, U.S.A. After her First Profession in 1958 she was assigned back to the Philippines and taught in many Columban schools there. In 1973 she was appointed Regional Superior of the Columban Sisters in the Philippines, the first Filipina Sister to hold that office. In 1987 she was appointed to Vocation Promotion in the Philippines and lived in the community in Paco, Manila. In 1990 she was appointed to mission in Chile. During her time there she ministered to the Christian communities in remote villages in the Interior of the North of Chile. Later she accompanied the 'Fatima Christan Community' in the desert town of Iquique, also in the North of Chile. When she returned to the Philippines she left behind a thriving community with a lovely new church and a centre for catechists.
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