From: kjbindew@loyno.edu
Subject: Loyola Community Request
Info:
The university recently received news that LIM graduate,
Sister Marguerite Bartz, SBS, '79, was found dead in her
convent in Navajo, New Mexico on November 1st. Her death is
being investigated as a murder in connection with her home
being broken into and her car stolen.
"She was known to be a woman always passionate for justice
and peace- and the life she lived would tell us that she
would respond to this incident with a spirit of forgiveness
towards whoever is responsible for these acts." (Diocese of
Gallup statement.)
Lord of compassion, greet your servant Marguerite with open
arms as those who knew and loved her mourn her death. May
the same light which guided her passion to love and serve
others illumunate our hearts to seek forgiveness and
understanding when facing the violence of this world.
Sister Marguerite was born in Plymouth, Wisconsin, in 1945.
She entered the Sisters
of the Blessed Sacrament in 1966 from Beaumont, Texas, and
professed final vows in
1974. She held a bachelor of arts degree from Xavier
University in New Orleans and a
master's degree in religious education from Loyola
University New Orleans.
Over the course of 40-plus years, Sister Marguerite was
missioned in Dorchester, Massachusetts; Lawtell, Louisiana;
Guadalupe Indian Mission in Peña Blanca, New Mexico; Saint
Joseph in Laguna, New Mexico; Saint Catherine Indian School
in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and-since 1999-Saint Berard's in
Navajo, New Mexico.
The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament is a religious order
founded 118 years ago by Saint Katharine Drexel.
Funeral arrangements are as follows:
Friday, November 6, 2009 / 7:00 p.m. Rosary
St. Michael Indian School Student Chapel (1 Lupton Road, St.
Michael’s, Arizona)
Saturday, November 7, 2009 / 10:00 a.m. Funeral Mass
(Sacred Heart Cathedral, 415 East Green, Gallup, New Mexico)
Burial will follow Mass in the Sisters’ cemetery at St.
Michael Indian School (1 Lupton Road, St. Michael’s,
Arizona)
http://www.dioceseofgallup.org/full_release.html
Kurt Bindewald
Director of University Ministry
Associate Director of Mission and Ministry
Loyola University New Orleans
6363 St. Charles Avenue- Box 214
New Orleans, LA 70118
504-865-2083