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Biographies Brother Mark Elliott Newman, OC Brother Mark professed his first vows on May 14th, 1998
during the Order's Days of Renewal. He is a registered nurse and works
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Sister Patricia Eugene Galileo, OC
Sister Pat was born in northwestern Ontario, Canada and graduated from
McGill University
He
has been involved with the Maronite Rite, but now is a member of the
Episcopal Church. He feels called to a Healing Apostolate in all its
forms, and works full time as a X-Ray Technologist and Medical
Assistant.Brother professed First Vows at the Order's General Assembly of May, 2003. He resides at Caritas House in Wichita KS with his cat, Domenic. Brother M. Guadalupe is thankful to God for having been led to the Ecumenical Order of Charity and feels very blessed to share the journey with his fellow Companions. Dennis McCoubrey Brother Dennis was born in 1946 at the beginning of the “baby boomers” era. He was raised in Detroit when there were distinct ethnic neighborhoods and when life was good. It was a time when a “good respectable kid” could skip school, go downtown and catch a movie without fear.
Kathryn Scarsdale
Kathy considers herself a Progressive Christian who looks at ecumenical
relationships as the hope of the future. Having grown up Southern
Baptist and then spending thirty years in the
Kathy lives in Harrison, Arkansas with her husband Mike, three cats and a Black Lab. She and Mike have two adult sons. Her career work is now part time in a business where for the past twenty three years she has been Vice President in charge of sales. Her work experience led her into vocational technical education leadership as a state board member on the Arkansas Workforce Education Board. She has also worked with apprenticeship, shadowing, plant tours and Leaders in Industry programs.
Kathy entered the Order’s Formation Program as a postulant during the May 2008 General Assembly.
Sharon Konrad
Sharon was born in the state of
Queensland in Australia in 1949 and grew up in a thriving
Sharon married and has 2 birth children, a son and a daughter, both now adults. She also is mother to two stepsons, who are married with children, so she is now also a grandmother. Sharon feel blessed in having a very close connected family, and though now separated from her husband, they remain married and keep in touch weekly.
Over the years Sharon has worked in Hospital Visiting and taking Communion to the sick and with St. Vincent de Paul as well as being very involved in other areas in the School/Parish Communities. She retired early from her work due to a chronic health condition and now does some Hospital Visiting as well as taking calls from people dealing with chronic health conditions. Sharon finds she does not have to go looking for things to do as The Almighty has a way of sending things her way as The Almighty sees fit, and she finds family life still a fulltime function.
As a girl at school, Sharon could remember hearing about three things which have grown over the years to be the impetus in her living out her life in whatever circumstances she finds herself; Practicing the Presence of God; the awareness that we are all Members of the Mystical Body of Christ and hearing about St Elizabeth of Hungary having the image of the face of Christ appear to her as she undid the cloak of a poor person to whom she was giving care.
While looking for a deeper foundation in her spiritual life, Sharon came across The Founding Document which she says is both a “clarion call” and also a “setting of the seal” on what she was looking for as a way to grow more fully into living out the great first commandment that Jesus gave us. Sharon remains a practicing Roman Catholic but is very interested in all people knowing they are children of God no matter what denomination or religion they come from. She believes in the saying of Rumi, the Sufi Mystic in his saying “The current of love from the One God is flowing throughout the entire universe. Each person is a current of the Essence of God which permeates him”. So, Sharon is deeply delighted to have been accepted as a postulant and to be travelling the path now with the Companions and Associates of The Ecumenical Order of Charity.
Sharon resides in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and is the Order’s first Australian Companion. |