![]() Fidelia said she was “an incredibly strong, gentle woman.” Others who knew Sr. A former director of religious education who knew Sr. Fidelia first assisted another Sister before teaching classes on her own as her confidence in this ministry grew. Her love for the Lord was evident in the way she moved about the sanctuary.Īs a catechist, Sr. Fidelia was known for her attention to detail and her “trusty little notebook” with instructions for every liturgy, whether in Ordinary Time, Advent, Lent, Christmas, Easter, or for jubilees or funerals. ![]() There, she spent nearly 30 years as sacristan, also serving as a volunteer catechist at two local parishes for more than 20 years.Īs sacristan, Sr. Her “active ministry” ended in 1983 with her retirement to Immaculate Heart of Mary Convent in Monroe, CT. Fidelia was asked to assist at the new House of Prayer in Riverhead, NY. Christopher Home, Sea Cliff, NY, and returned to England for an additional year of child-care ministry. Stanislaus Kostka School in Brooklyn, NY, but most of her ministry centered on child care. from Holy Family College in Philadelphia and a certificate from Adelphi University’s Child Care Institute on Long Island, NY. She spent the next two years as a house mother for a CSFN ministry in Enfield, England, and then returned to Philadelphia to profess her final vows in 1962. Given the name “Fidelia” when she became a novice, she spent her two-year novitiate at the CSFN formation house in Albano, Italy, near Rome, professing her first vows there in 1956. Finally, at age 27, Florence was accepted as a CSFN postulant in Torresdale, PA. ![]() After working in a bakery and a laundry, Florence became a long-distance operator for Bell Telephone. John’s High School where she was taught by the IHM sisters.Īfter graduation, Florence’s mother again asked her to delay entrance to religious life. Florence spent two years in public high school, finishing her diploma at St. Florence considered religious life at the end of her grammar school days, but her mother asked her to finish high school first. Fidelia - Florence Sopinski first encountered the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth at Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Parish School. The fifth of eight children born to Polish immigrants in Scranton, PA, Sr.
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