MOUNT CARMEL - Four religious communities, not three as previously reported, will be represented Sunday at the Mother Maria Kaupas Center dedication.
Special guests at the dedication will be Felician Sisters, of Coraopolis, Sisters of Saint Casimir, of Chicago, Sisters of Saints Cyril and Methodius, of Danville, and Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, of Scranton. (The Felician Sisters' participation was inadvertently omitted in an earlier report).
The nuns will attend the 10:30 a.m. Mass Sunday in Divine Redeemer Church, which will be celebrated by Bishop Ronald Gainer. A ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony is scheduled for noon at the center, which is being established at the former St. Peter's Convent on West Avenue. For many years, the convent was home to Felician sisters who taught at Holy Spirit School and Our Lady of Lourdes Regional School.
The dedication ceremony is being held in conjunction with the 75th anniversary of Kaupas' death, but the center will not begin operations until the summer.
A native of Lithuania, Mother Maria Kaupas founded the Sisters of Saint Casimir, which formed and taught at Holy Cross Parish School in Mount Carmel. She was declared "venerable" in 2010, a step on the path to being proclaimed a saint.