70 Years

Giving Thanks Honors 70th Anniversary

The Edmundite Missions gave thanks to God for 70 years of service during a Mass and Banquet in Selma on Nov. 28.



Bishops from Michigan and Louisiana joined with the Most Rev. Oscar Lipscomb, D.D. of the Mobile Archdiocese joined the Edmundite community, members of parishes, Sisters of several Orders, staff members, volunteers, and the Gospel Choir of St. Peter Claver Church in praising God for His grace and mercy through the years.

The Most Rev. Moses Anderson, S.S.E., a Selma native and retired Auxiliary Bishop in Detroit, served as principal celebrant for the Mass at Queen of Peace Catholic Church.

The Edmundite Community honored Archbishop Lipscomb, the Most Rev. Shelton J. Fabre, D.D., Auxiliary Bishop of New Orleans, and St. Peter Claver church worker Pearl Dupart with the Gaudium et Spes Award, in recognition of their efforts on behalf of the poor and the afflicted that is such an essential element of the ministry of the Missions.

The anniversary celebration drew 220 people including Selma Mayor James Perkins, whose mother was in the first graduating class of practical nurses at the Edmundites’ Good Samaritan Hospital in 1955, and City Councilman Johnny Leeshore, a Queen of Peace member.

Rev. Richard Myhalyk, S.S.E., Executive Director of the Missions, thanked the staff, outreach workers and Sisters of several Orders who “make Christ real” to those in need serving in four of the poorest counties of rural Alabama and New Orleans’ inner city.