Delightful Winter Tea Event
A delightful Winter Tea event was held at the Sisters, Home Visitors of Mary convent in Detroit on Sunday, February 16. 2025, in preparation for the (promised?) upcoming arrival of warm Springtime in Michigan weather. Attendees included a good number of welcome parishioners from nearby Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Attendees all enjoyed each other’s company and shared their favorite tea or coffee beverage and the delicious snack foods provided by always-generous volunteer SHVM fund raising committee members.
The gathering was highlighted by presentations from Sr. Clare and from Sr. Rosemarie, along with a highly-memorable poetic recital by Sonja Still. Sonja delivered a wonderful performance of The White Magnolia Tree, a poem written by Helen Deutsch in 1950 (one year after the founding of Sisters, Home Visitors of Mary). The audience listened intently to Sonja’s wonderful presentation, fully enthralled from the first words up to the closing phrases …
Dear Heaven, I Give Thanks To Thee for …
Click Here to read the entire beautiful poem – The White Magnolia Tree
Sister Clare addressing attendees
Sr. Rosemarie addressing attendees
Sonja Still. honorary SHVM Poet Laureate
Beautiful door prize and winner
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