St. Anne Convent
Melbourne, Kentucky
February 22, 2011
SISTER MARY CONSTANCE BUSSE
has been called into eternal life.
Born May 3, 1925 in Newport, Kentucky, Sister Mary Constance Busse entered eternal life on February 20, 2011 at Holy Family Home. She was eighty-five years old and a professed member of the Congregation of Divine Providence for sixty-six years.
Phyllis Mae was the seventh of nine children born to Clemens and Ursula Busse. She is survived by her twin sister Janet, two other sisters Marie Cox and Frances, her brother Clement, and nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her sisters Angela Hawk and Ursula Griefenkamp and her brothers George and Joseph.
Sister Mary Constance attributes her vocation to religious life to her parents' strong faith and high principles. They laid the foundation for her life of faith, love, and prayer. She was also influenced by the Sisters of Divine Providence at St. Vincent de Paul School. She greatly admired them and wanted to imitate them. Sister entered St. Anne Convent on May 4, 1941. She made her first profession of vows on August 29, 1944 and final vows on August 29, 1949.
Whenever and wherever Sister Mary Constance was sent, she went willingly and tried her best to do the work assigned to her. After her first profession of vows, Sister remained at St. Anne Convent for one year of college. Then she began her ministry of community service at St. Mary Seminary, Roland Park in Baltimore, Maryland from 1945 to 1948. She served in Curley Hall, Catholic University in Washington, D.C. from 1948 to 1949. Sister moved on to the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio from 1949 to 1953. She returned to Maryland to St. Charles College in Catonsville from 1953 to 1963. Sister Mary Constance relocated to Our Lady of Providence Academy in Newport, Kentucky from 1963 to 1966. Then she returned to the east coast to Theological College in Washington, D.C. from 1966 to 1973. She served at Our Lady of Sorrows School in Takoma Park, Maryland from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1976 she worked in the S.V.D. House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Sister Mary Constance returned to Kentucky to begin a new ministry as a teacher's aide at St. Thomas Elementary School in Fort Thomas from 1976 to 1999. Then she completed one more year of community service at St. Anne Convent in Melbourne from 1999 to 2000. Sister retired to Holy Family Home, where she continued to serve her community until 2006. Then she began her final ministry of suffering and prayer.
All through her life Sister Mary Constance was a hard worker. In her early teens she helped her father in their grocery store. As a sister she devoted twenty-nine years of her life to community service. Specifically, she labored in the ministry of food service as a cook. She prepared meals for groups that ranged from twenty to almost five hundred people. She found the work very difficult, but relied on God to help her and to keep her faithful to her duty.
From the time she was a young girl, Sister Mary Constance yearned to learn and had always dreamed of being a teacher. She was disappointed when she was directed to community service. The radical change in her ministry in 1976 began some of the most enjoyable years in her life. As a teacher's aide at St. Thomas Elementary School, Sister helped the children in the first and second grades. She was frightened at first. Eventually, with some outside help, self-taught skills, and an occasional workshop, she gained self-confidence in her work. Sister was gentle, patient, affirming, and loving. She befriended the students, teachers, and parents and worked her way into the hearts of everyone. Sister was much loved and appreciated.
Reflecting on her life, Sister Mary Constance described herself as caring, understanding, grateful, hopeful, a hard worker, and a good listener. Faith and trust in God's Providence helped her through the difficult years. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" continually called her to constancy and fidelity to duty. Her devotions to the Holy Trinity, the Passion of Jesus, Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and the Blessed Mother sustained her.
Sister Mary Constance has written that she would like to be remembered as one who was prayerful, reliable, loving, thoughtful, and sensitive. She was concerned about others and tried to be a good religious in service of God and others.
In thanksgiving for our dear Sister Mary Constance and for her witness as a loving, joyful woman of Providence and as a woman of prayer, compassion, and loving service throughout her religious life, let us entrust her to the care of our Provident God.
United in God's gracious Providence,
Sister Barbara Patrick, CDP for
Sister Frances Moore, CDP, Provincial
Mass of Christian Burial:
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sacred Heart Chapel, St. Anne Convent
Burial in the Convent Cemetery, Melbourne, Kentucky
Melbourne, Kentucky
February 22, 2011
SISTER MARY CONSTANCE BUSSE
has been called into eternal life.
Born May 3, 1925 in Newport, Kentucky, Sister Mary Constance Busse entered eternal life on February 20, 2011 at Holy Family Home. She was eighty-five years old and a professed member of the Congregation of Divine Providence for sixty-six years.
Phyllis Mae was the seventh of nine children born to Clemens and Ursula Busse. She is survived by her twin sister Janet, two other sisters Marie Cox and Frances, her brother Clement, and nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her sisters Angela Hawk and Ursula Griefenkamp and her brothers George and Joseph.
Sister Mary Constance attributes her vocation to religious life to her parents' strong faith and high principles. They laid the foundation for her life of faith, love, and prayer. She was also influenced by the Sisters of Divine Providence at St. Vincent de Paul School. She greatly admired them and wanted to imitate them. Sister entered St. Anne Convent on May 4, 1941. She made her first profession of vows on August 29, 1944 and final vows on August 29, 1949.
Whenever and wherever Sister Mary Constance was sent, she went willingly and tried her best to do the work assigned to her. After her first profession of vows, Sister remained at St. Anne Convent for one year of college. Then she began her ministry of community service at St. Mary Seminary, Roland Park in Baltimore, Maryland from 1945 to 1948. She served in Curley Hall, Catholic University in Washington, D.C. from 1948 to 1949. Sister moved on to the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio from 1949 to 1953. She returned to Maryland to St. Charles College in Catonsville from 1953 to 1963. Sister Mary Constance relocated to Our Lady of Providence Academy in Newport, Kentucky from 1963 to 1966. Then she returned to the east coast to Theological College in Washington, D.C. from 1966 to 1973. She served at Our Lady of Sorrows School in Takoma Park, Maryland from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1976 she worked in the S.V.D. House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Sister Mary Constance returned to Kentucky to begin a new ministry as a teacher's aide at St. Thomas Elementary School in Fort Thomas from 1976 to 1999. Then she completed one more year of community service at St. Anne Convent in Melbourne from 1999 to 2000. Sister retired to Holy Family Home, where she continued to serve her community until 2006. Then she began her final ministry of suffering and prayer.
All through her life Sister Mary Constance was a hard worker. In her early teens she helped her father in their grocery store. As a sister she devoted twenty-nine years of her life to community service. Specifically, she labored in the ministry of food service as a cook. She prepared meals for groups that ranged from twenty to almost five hundred people. She found the work very difficult, but relied on God to help her and to keep her faithful to her duty.
From the time she was a young girl, Sister Mary Constance yearned to learn and had always dreamed of being a teacher. She was disappointed when she was directed to community service. The radical change in her ministry in 1976 began some of the most enjoyable years in her life. As a teacher's aide at St. Thomas Elementary School, Sister helped the children in the first and second grades. She was frightened at first. Eventually, with some outside help, self-taught skills, and an occasional workshop, she gained self-confidence in her work. Sister was gentle, patient, affirming, and loving. She befriended the students, teachers, and parents and worked her way into the hearts of everyone. Sister was much loved and appreciated.
Reflecting on her life, Sister Mary Constance described herself as caring, understanding, grateful, hopeful, a hard worker, and a good listener. Faith and trust in God's Providence helped her through the difficult years. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" continually called her to constancy and fidelity to duty. Her devotions to the Holy Trinity, the Passion of Jesus, Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and the Blessed Mother sustained her.
Sister Mary Constance has written that she would like to be remembered as one who was prayerful, reliable, loving, thoughtful, and sensitive. She was concerned about others and tried to be a good religious in service of God and others.
In thanksgiving for our dear Sister Mary Constance and for her witness as a loving, joyful woman of Providence and as a woman of prayer, compassion, and loving service throughout her religious life, let us entrust her to the care of our Provident God.
United in God's gracious Providence,
Sister Barbara Patrick, CDP for
Sister Frances Moore, CDP, Provincial
Mass of Christian Burial:
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sacred Heart Chapel, St. Anne Convent
Burial in the Convent Cemetery, Melbourne, Kentucky
St. Anne Convent
Melbourne, Kentucky
February 22, 2011
SISTER MARY CONSTANCE BUSSE
has been called into eternal life.
Born May 3, 1925 in Newport, Kentucky, Sister Mary Constance Busse entered eternal life on February 20, 2011 at Holy Family Home. She was eighty-five years old and a professed member of the Congregation of Divine Providence for sixty-six years.
Phyllis Mae was the seventh of nine children born to Clemens and Ursula Busse. She is survived by her twin sister Janet, two other sisters Marie Cox and Frances, her brother Clement, and nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her sisters Angela Hawk and Ursula Griefenkamp and her brothers George and Joseph.
Sister Mary Constance attributes her vocation to religious life to her parents' strong faith and high principles. They laid the foundation for her life of faith, love, and prayer. She was also influenced by the Sisters of Divine Providence at St. Vincent de Paul School. She greatly admired them and wanted to imitate them. Sister entered St. Anne Convent on May 4, 1941. She made her first profession of vows on August 29, 1944 and final vows on August 29, 1949.
Whenever and wherever Sister Mary Constance was sent, she went willingly and tried her best to do the work assigned to her. After her first profession of vows, Sister remained at St. Anne Convent for one year of college. Then she began her ministry of community service at St. Mary Seminary, Roland Park in Baltimore, Maryland from 1945 to 1948. She served in Curley Hall, Catholic University in Washington, D.C. from 1948 to 1949. Sister moved on to the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio from 1949 to 1953. She returned to Maryland to St. Charles College in Catonsville from 1953 to 1963. Sister Mary Constance relocated to Our Lady of Providence Academy in Newport, Kentucky from 1963 to 1966. Then she returned to the east coast to Theological College in Washington, D.C. from 1966 to 1973. She served at Our Lady of Sorrows School in Takoma Park, Maryland from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1976 she worked in the S.V.D. House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Sister Mary Constance returned to Kentucky to begin a new ministry as a teacher's aide at St. Thomas Elementary School in Fort Thomas from 1976 to 1999. Then she completed one more year of community service at St. Anne Convent in Melbourne from 1999 to 2000. Sister retired to Holy Family Home, where she continued to serve her community until 2006. Then she began her final ministry of suffering and prayer.
All through her life Sister Mary Constance was a hard worker. In her early teens she helped her father in their grocery store. As a sister she devoted twenty-nine years of her life to community service. Specifically, she labored in the ministry of food service as a cook. She prepared meals for groups that ranged from twenty to almost five hundred people. She found the work very difficult, but relied on God to help her and to keep her faithful to her duty.
From the time she was a young girl, Sister Mary Constance yearned to learn and had always dreamed of being a teacher. She was disappointed when she was directed to community service. The radical change in her ministry in 1976 began some of the most enjoyable years in her life. As a teacher's aide at St. Thomas Elementary School, Sister helped the children in the first and second grades. She was frightened at first. Eventually, with some outside help, self-taught skills, and an occasional workshop, she gained self-confidence in her work. Sister was gentle, patient, affirming, and loving. She befriended the students, teachers, and parents and worked her way into the hearts of everyone. Sister was much loved and appreciated.
Reflecting on her life, Sister Mary Constance described herself as caring, understanding, grateful, hopeful, a hard worker, and a good listener. Faith and trust in God's Providence helped her through the difficult years. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" continually called her to constancy and fidelity to duty. Her devotions to the Holy Trinity, the Passion of Jesus, Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and the Blessed Mother sustained her.
Sister Mary Constance has written that she would like to be remembered as one who was prayerful, reliable, loving, thoughtful, and sensitive. She was concerned about others and tried to be a good religious in service of God and others.
In thanksgiving for our dear Sister Mary Constance and for her witness as a loving, joyful woman of Providence and as a woman of prayer, compassion, and loving service throughout her religious life, let us entrust her to the care of our Provident God.
United in God's gracious Providence,
Sister Barbara Patrick, CDP for
Sister Frances Moore, CDP, Provincial
Mass of Christian Burial:
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sacred Heart Chapel, St. Anne Convent
Burial in the Convent Cemetery, Melbourne, Kentucky
Melbourne, Kentucky
February 22, 2011
SISTER MARY CONSTANCE BUSSE
has been called into eternal life.
Born May 3, 1925 in Newport, Kentucky, Sister Mary Constance Busse entered eternal life on February 20, 2011 at Holy Family Home. She was eighty-five years old and a professed member of the Congregation of Divine Providence for sixty-six years.
Phyllis Mae was the seventh of nine children born to Clemens and Ursula Busse. She is survived by her twin sister Janet, two other sisters Marie Cox and Frances, her brother Clement, and nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her sisters Angela Hawk and Ursula Griefenkamp and her brothers George and Joseph.
Sister Mary Constance attributes her vocation to religious life to her parents' strong faith and high principles. They laid the foundation for her life of faith, love, and prayer. She was also influenced by the Sisters of Divine Providence at St. Vincent de Paul School. She greatly admired them and wanted to imitate them. Sister entered St. Anne Convent on May 4, 1941. She made her first profession of vows on August 29, 1944 and final vows on August 29, 1949.
Whenever and wherever Sister Mary Constance was sent, she went willingly and tried her best to do the work assigned to her. After her first profession of vows, Sister remained at St. Anne Convent for one year of college. Then she began her ministry of community service at St. Mary Seminary, Roland Park in Baltimore, Maryland from 1945 to 1948. She served in Curley Hall, Catholic University in Washington, D.C. from 1948 to 1949. Sister moved on to the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio from 1949 to 1953. She returned to Maryland to St. Charles College in Catonsville from 1953 to 1963. Sister Mary Constance relocated to Our Lady of Providence Academy in Newport, Kentucky from 1963 to 1966. Then she returned to the east coast to Theological College in Washington, D.C. from 1966 to 1973. She served at Our Lady of Sorrows School in Takoma Park, Maryland from 1973 to 1975. From 1975 to 1976 she worked in the S.V.D. House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Sister Mary Constance returned to Kentucky to begin a new ministry as a teacher's aide at St. Thomas Elementary School in Fort Thomas from 1976 to 1999. Then she completed one more year of community service at St. Anne Convent in Melbourne from 1999 to 2000. Sister retired to Holy Family Home, where she continued to serve her community until 2006. Then she began her final ministry of suffering and prayer.
All through her life Sister Mary Constance was a hard worker. In her early teens she helped her father in their grocery store. As a sister she devoted twenty-nine years of her life to community service. Specifically, she labored in the ministry of food service as a cook. She prepared meals for groups that ranged from twenty to almost five hundred people. She found the work very difficult, but relied on God to help her and to keep her faithful to her duty.
From the time she was a young girl, Sister Mary Constance yearned to learn and had always dreamed of being a teacher. She was disappointed when she was directed to community service. The radical change in her ministry in 1976 began some of the most enjoyable years in her life. As a teacher's aide at St. Thomas Elementary School, Sister helped the children in the first and second grades. She was frightened at first. Eventually, with some outside help, self-taught skills, and an occasional workshop, she gained self-confidence in her work. Sister was gentle, patient, affirming, and loving. She befriended the students, teachers, and parents and worked her way into the hearts of everyone. Sister was much loved and appreciated.
Reflecting on her life, Sister Mary Constance described herself as caring, understanding, grateful, hopeful, a hard worker, and a good listener. Faith and trust in God's Providence helped her through the difficult years. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" continually called her to constancy and fidelity to duty. Her devotions to the Holy Trinity, the Passion of Jesus, Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and the Blessed Mother sustained her.
Sister Mary Constance has written that she would like to be remembered as one who was prayerful, reliable, loving, thoughtful, and sensitive. She was concerned about others and tried to be a good religious in service of God and others.
In thanksgiving for our dear Sister Mary Constance and for her witness as a loving, joyful woman of Providence and as a woman of prayer, compassion, and loving service throughout her religious life, let us entrust her to the care of our Provident God.
United in God's gracious Providence,
Sister Barbara Patrick, CDP for
Sister Frances Moore, CDP, Provincial
Mass of Christian Burial:
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Sacred Heart Chapel, St. Anne Convent
Burial in the Convent Cemetery, Melbourne, Kentucky
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