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DEC 06 LBW
Sister
Virginia Kallus, OSB
Sister
Mary Virginia Kallus was born in LaGrange, Texas, one of twelve
children of Robert and Cecelia Kallus. Two of Sister Virginia’s
sisters were already at Sacred Heart Monastery when she decided,
at 18, to enter the community. Two additional Kallus sisters
joined her after their own personal discernment so that
eventually five Kallus girls came to Sacred Heart Monastery.
Sister
Virginia began her ministry work with young children at the
orphanage and then moved to St. Procopius College prepared
breakfast for the sick. She completed a degree at DePaul
University and moved into teaching. She taught elementary age
children in a variety of schools in and around Chicago and even
spent a few years teaching in Texas. Her fondest memories are
her nineteen years teaching first graders at St. Scholastica in
Woodridge, Illinois.
Sister
Virginia retired from teaching and took on various duties in the
Sisters’ infirmary, where she continues to minister today. She
enjoys the opportunity to visit the Sisters’ neighbors in
Benedale Center, the assisted living unit of Villa St.
Benedict.
Sister’s
pastimes include walks around the monastery grounds, dominos and
cards. She welcomes time with the Lord in private prayer and
looks forward to the daily recitation of the Divine Office. She
finds the psalms to be a great source of strength and energy and
daily mass culminates her love for God.
Sister
Virginia hopes for and dreams of the continuation of the
Benedictine Charism of prayer and work in community. She hopes
to see the Sisters’ ministry to the elderly at Villa St.
Benedict grow. Sister wishes the LBW readers a blessed
Christmas. She would like everyone to know that they are
remembered in the Sisters’ daily prayers and that the Sisters
appreciate all that their friends and families do for the
community.
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