Sunday, April 29, 2012
It’s ‘a glorious day for Ursuline Sisters’ in Canfield today
By BOB JACKSON
news@vindy.com
CANFIELD
When Sister Nancy Dawson gushed that today was glorious, she wasn’t talking about the warm, sunny weather conditions outside.
She was talking about the public unveiling of new living quarters for the Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown, at the sisters’ Motherhouse on Shields Road. The $1.7 million project, which reconfigured existing space in the Motherhouse, began nearly a year ago and is expected to be completed within about two weeks, Sister Nancy said.
“This is just a glorious day for the Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown,” Dawson said.
In the past, the nuns who live at the Motherhouse were quartered in cramped bedrooms and had to share common bathrooms. Now, each of the 24 nuns will have her own apartment-style dwelling, each of which includes a living room, bedroom, and a private bathroom. The rooms are all on one side of the Motherhouse and should be ready for the nuns to move into in about two weeks.
The two-story living area includes shared kitchen areas on each floor, where the sisters can make coffee or a light breakfast. There are no stoves because the sisters eat their meals in a common dining area.
Space on the opposite side of the Motherhouse, where the sisters have been living during the reconfiguration project, now will be used for the sisters’ many community ministry projects.
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