With the start of the new decade, Lorraine Campanelli, CLM, stepped into her role as Director of the Cabrini Lay Missionaries (CLM) (Guadalupe Province) following her election in October, 2019. Lorraine has been an employee of Cabrini of Westchester since 2002 when she started as a social work intern, then a social worker for the Adult Day Care Program before transitioning to staff social worker and eventually the Director of Social Work for the nursing home. She made her commitment as a Cabrini Lay Missionary in 2015. Currently, she is the Director of Cabrini Immigrant Services, Dobbs Ferry, NY, where her skills and talents as a teacher and social worker are the perfect recipe for success.
Patricia Krasnausky, who leaves the role of Director after 12 years, has been a Cabrini Lay Missionary since 2004. She has worked in eldercare at the various New York Cabrini ministries since 1991. Pat currently serves on the International CLM Commission, and has had the privilege of visiting several of the missions abroad.
At the January bi-monthly CLM meeting, Pat was presented with flowers from the CLMs in gratitude for her contribution to the program.
In the words of St. Cabrini, “Today, love must not be hidden….it must be living, active and true!” We are grateful to Pat for her years of dedication and her ability to spread the charism of St. Cabrini. God bless you for all you have done as a CLM.
felt called by God to live a life as a Cabrini Lay Missionary since 1990. I was first missioned in Nicaragua teaching religion in one of our schools. Then the Provincial asked me to go to Argentina to work in a parish where I worked as a catechesis coordinator. During that time, I lived in the Provincial house and enjoyed sharing life and prayer with the sisters.
Many thanks to Patricia Krasnausky, CLM, for her generosity in serving as Coordinator of the Cabrini Lay Missionaries in the Stella Maris Province and then the new Guadalupe Province. As Coordinator over the past thirteen years Pat shared the richness of her own commitment to the charism of Mother Cabrini. She provided a consistent structure for the CLMs and organized formation experiences for them. She has attended CLM international meetings and participated in the renewal of the CLM Handbook.
Tomorrow, on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, we pause to consider that within every religious tradition there is such a variety of ideas and images that individuals tend to gravitate towards those that attract them or provide particular meaning. For Frances Cabrini, it was the human heart of the suffering crucified Christ that resonated strongly within. She saw expressed in the image of ‘The Sacred Heart of Jesus’, the love and kindness of the unseen God, his passion for all creation, and his chosen capacity to share in and ultimately redeem the suffering in the world.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus was transformational in the life of Frances Cabrini. She experienced a powerful, personal experience of God’s love as it was lived and symbolized in the life and heart of Jesus. She was on fire with that love. She experienced Jesus not only as one who was loved by God and who loved her, but also as one who was missioned or sent to share that love. This experience created in her an intimate personal relationship with Jesus and, at the same time, sent Frances out to the ends of the earth as a missionary of the love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
We came together to find common ground through formation, economic independence, and also to imagine our future. In addition to our own discussions, Rev. Msgr. Graham Bell, the undersecretary of the promotion of New Evangelization Department of the Pontifical Council, spoke to us about the challenges of the new Evangelization. We were also blessed to have Sr. Maria Regina Canale, MSC, the General Assistant of the MSCs, speak to us about the charism of St. Cabrini.
group renewed in its own language. It was so beautiful to hear the various languages, a reminder that we may speak different languages but we are all one.
