Catholic Review Online | Mount de Sales blesses ground for new convent

George P. Matysek, Jr. has a nice story in the Catholic Review about the new Convent planned for the Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia who teach at the all-girls high school, Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville, MD.

Father Michael Roach, pastor of St. Bartholomew in Manchester and former president of the school’s board of trustees, sprinkled holy water on the grounds where the two-story building will stand.

The convent will cost $2 million, including $1.5 million for construction and $500,000 for a maintenance endowment. More than $1 million has already been raised.

Sister Anne Catherine said the convent will include a chapel, a community room, a work room and sleeping quarters. It will accommodate 12 sisters. Next year, five sisters will be working in the school and two others will live with the community as they continue their studies at Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore.

The building is expected to be finished in early spring of 2011.

Read this nice story here!