Grace Duc Le, superior general of the Lovers of the Holy Cross of Los Angeles. There are now 65 professed sisters, four novices, seven postulants and seven candidates living in eight convents, according to Sr. In 1989, Archbishop Roger Mahony of Los Angeles approved a request by the sisters, through the intervention of the late Bishop Joseph McShea of Allentown, to establish their presence in the Los Angeles Archdiocese. They had a foundation in Northampton, Pennsylvania, under the Allentown Diocese.

They came as refugees and were resettled temporarily in various dioceses. The Lovers of the Holy Cross of Los Angeles began when 28 sisters and novices fled South Vietnam in 1975. Even though each congregation is autonomous, they all accept de la Motte as their founder. Today there are 30 Lovers of the Holy Cross congregations - 24 in Vietnam, three in Thailand, one in Cambodia, one in Laos and the one in the U.S., in Los Angeles. 19,* 1670, when de la Motte accepted the vows of two women at Pho Hien in northern Vietnam. The congregation traces its history to Ash Wednesday, Feb. The shelter, in which two other Lovers of the Holy Cross sisters serve among the 40-member staff, is among a network of ministries of the congregation in Southern California. Julia Mary Farley, who started the center, retired. The story also reaches to the very roots of Lanh Tran's congregation, founded in Vietnam some 350 years ago by French Bishop Pierre Marie Lambert de la Motte. Lanh Tran took over as director of the Good Shepherd Center in 2010 when Good Shepherd Sr.

Anne Lanh Tran, a sister of the Lovers of the Holy Cross of Los Angeles, Katherine's story is not only an example of hope for the up to 93 women and some 50 children whom the center houses each night. With support from the center, a program of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, she now has a home and a job helping single mothers to find housing.įor Sr. 'Standing there on the porch, I began to cry.' She said when she arrived at the center, she felt like she was home. Katherine, who didn't want her last name used, told of her experience to some 200 guests at a recent fundraising gala for the Good Shepherd Center. She was given a place to live, help for her two boys, life skills classes, and time to rest and heal from domestic violence and a life of homelessness. I just asked if I could take a shower.' When she came to the Good Shepherd Center, she got not only shelter but a haven of support to get back on her feet.

Living on the street of Los Angeles with two children, Katherine desperately needed a shower.

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