New Leaders for EHJ Sisters... cont'd
During the Chapter, elections were held and the following emerged as members of the new administrative team:
Sr. Agatha Osarenkhoe – Superior General, Sr. Fausta Manafa - Vicar General, Sr. Juliana Osiyemi – Councilor,
Sr. Fidelia Alao – Councilor and Sr. Cecilia Omeife – Councilor. These Sisters have made personal commitment
with God that they shall render loving service to their beloved Congregation. They shall pilot the affairs of the
Congregation for the next six years, September 2009 till September 2015.
On 16th September 2009, at the thanksgiving Mass to celebrate the end of the 8th General Chapter,
Monsignor Bernard Okodua thanked the outgoing administration for the work they did in the previous
six years. He advised the new administration to work as a team and to render service in love. He told them to
shun gossip and stories of ‘dem say’ that cannot be authenticated. He assured the Sisters of the love and interest
of the Cardinal, Priest and Laity of the Archdiocese of Lagos in the affairs of the Congregation. He
encouraged the Sisters to learn lessons of forgiveness and pastoral zeal from the lives of Sts. Cornelius and
Cyprian whose feastday occurred on 16th September, the day the thanksgiving Mass was being celebrated in
the Chapel of the Sisters’ Generalate.
Quick Facts about the New Superior General
Sister Mary Agatha Osarenkhoe EHJ was born on December 6, 1966. She made her first Religious profession in the Institute of the Sisters of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus on August 16, 1987.
Sr. Mary Agatha had her graduate and post-graduate studies in the Sciences of Social Communications at the Pontifical Salesian University, Rome; she also obtained her doctorate in the Sciences of Social Communications from the same University. As a reward for her brilliant performance, she received a medal for academic excellence from her University in 2001.
She has influenced and enriched the lives of many through the print medium. Amongst others, Sr. Mary Agatha was the first editor of The Catholic Voyage (a journal published by the Conference of the Major Superiors of Nigeria); editor, The Fount (a magazine published by the Sisters of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus). At her private time she loves painting, reading, especially the sacred scriptures.
Sister Mary Agatha was elected Vicar General of her Institute in September 2003, and on September
12, 2009 was elected the Superior General of the same Institute.
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