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... We stand today on the threshold of a new beginning, a time to chart our course for the next six years. We are standing in the footsteps of the first five pioneers who came to America in 1874 and began our American foundation in the rural community of Polonia, Wisconsin. With the establishment of our province in 1900, our first leaders and sisters and all our sisters who followed them contributed to our formation as a province which in turn enters into our individual lives. If they had stood still, did not make changes, and did not take risks, we would not be the community we are today... ... We cannot plan or move ahead unless we continue to grow in our faith life, deepen our relationship with God and respond in service to others. It is imperative that we live as authentic consecrated women in the life to which God has called us... ... As John Paul II states in Vita Consecrata, "Look to the future where the Spirit is sending you in order to do even greater things." ... As we continue to journey together as a community may we recognize and respond to the presence of God-with-us. Indeed, sisters, we are on a journey, a journey toward the unknown but let us proceed with God and each other in the spirit of A FUTURE FILLED WITH HOPE. Following the examples of St. Felix, Saint Francis and Blessed Mary Angela, we continue to bring the message of the Gospel to all people. Through our various ministries, the mission that began 150 years ago continues and adapts to the needs of the times. While our primary focus for many years has been education, we have expanded our services to other ministries in the areas of social services, religious education, campus and parish ministry, health care and prison ministry.
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