Jubilees for Victory Noll Sisters who served in Utah

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Sister Rita Musante OLVM

HUNTINGTON, Ind. — Seven members of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters are celebrating Jubilees in 2017. Among them are two who served in the Diocese of Salt Lake City. Six of the jubilarians will be honored with a special Mass May 24 at Archbishop Noll Memorial Chapel at Victory Noll.

Sister Rita Musante and Sister Rose Zita Rosonke are celebrating 60 years as Victory Noll Sisters, both having entered OLVM on Sept. 5, 1957.  

Originally from Warren, Pa., Sr. Rita has worked in mission centers in California, Indiana, Utah (Salt Lake City), Pennsylvania, Michigan and New Jersey.

“Helping people become aware of how much God loves each of us with all our mistakes and sins, achievements and dreams, is such a joy! Assisting people to become conscious of God’s intimate presence and offer of friendship in their lives – that they are never alone, that they are ‘walking tabernacles’ of God’s presence and divine activity in their lives and in our world: this, too, fills me with joy,” Sr. Rita said. “My favorite ministry is retreats and spiritual direction – because these are for me the best and most direct ways of assisting people to become aware of and respond to God’s amazing invitation to them to enter into an intimate friendship like no other.”

Sr. Rose Zita Rosonke, a native of Mt. Carmel, Iowa, has been missioned in Indiana, Michigan, California, Nevada, Utah (Brigham City), Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico and Arizona. Her current ministry is with Victory Noll Center in Huntington.

“I continue to grow in understanding that life is not so much about what I accomplish but more about what God’s great love accomplishes in and through and among others,” Sr. Rose Zita said. “Each ministry location connected me to new people and experiences with all ages wishing to know Christ better and participate in the mission of Jesus together.”

Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters is a religious community of women dedicated to serving the poor in the name of Christ. Founded in 1922 by Father John Joseph Sigstein, the members of the Victory Noll community minister to those in need.

Courtesy of Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters