Sister Marcella Gindt, SDS Marks Her 60th Jubilee

Sister Marcella Gindt, SDS, celebrated her 60th Jubilee of religious profession on Saturday, June 28. Harvest of Service—Others Will Follow is the theme of this year’s Mass and reception honoring Salvatorian Sisters and Priests. The Mass was offered at Mother of Good Counsel Parish, Milwaukee. A reception for family and friends followed.

As a Sister of the Divine Savior, Sister Marcella ministered as an elementary school teacher in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Then she earned a Medical Secretarial Degree and worked at Aurora Health Care Hospitals in Milwaukee. Later she served the retired Salvatorian Sisters at St. Mary’s Nursing Home, Milwaukee. At St. Mary’s, she also started a gift shop as a volunteer.

Today she lives at the Salvatorian Sisters Residence, Milwaukee, and volunteers at the adjacent St. Anne’s Salvatorian Campus. “I try to be a gentle presence to our residents so that they remember that God loves them as they are. I also make greeting cards available to our residents and staff,” she said. All of the retired Sisters participate in the Apostolate of Prayer for the intentions of friends.

Sister Marcella has two other sisters who are Salvatorian Sisters, Sisters Beatrice and Alice. They are Boyd/Edson natives and were members of Sacred Heart Parish, Edson. Sister Marcella was born the third of thirteen children of the late Agnes and Joseph Gindt.

“As a family, we had many good times and could field our own ball team. Our parents played with us. As a vowed woman religious, I have liked every ministry and experienced many changes in the Church, religious life and the world and always tried to grow and change gracefully,” she explained.