Sisters Of The Holy Cross

Restoring the Church to Its Rightful Place in Ghana

“And Jesus cried with a loud voice, and gave up the ghost. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom” (Mark 15: 37, 38). When the Holy Spirit of the Most High God, after persistent prayer, opened up the aforementioned Scriptures to me, I would sit and cry each time that I mulled over those words. Suddenly, the Lord Jesus Christ had given me a clear understanding that had eluded me many years, perhaps because I had depended so much on analyzing the Word of God with an intellectual magnifier. Some of us were born into the Church – that universal body of Christ, devoid, for the purposes of this discussion, of specific denominations – even if there remain doctrinal differences between the Protestants and Catholics, between the Presbyterians and Baptists, between the Trinitarians and Unitarians. Yes, Doctrine is essential, that specific delineation between God-inspired facts and man-made assertions – but the Church, as a whole, has moved so far away from the Word of God that we should, first of all, revisit the Church’s pertinent role in the Ghanaian society, and then analyze the specifics of Doctrine, no matter how controversial, in future discussions. In Hebrews Chapter 9, we learn about blood sacrifice, specifically the way people of the Old Testament era atoned for their sins. In accordance with specific instructions from God, there was, made by the hands of men, a tabernacle – a place of worship and sacrifice that held a table, a candlestick, and the shewbread, which were behind the first veil. Into this sanctuary the priests of God regularly went to perform services to God on behalf of the people. Then there was a second veil, beyond which was the Holiest place of all, which was reserved for the High Priest to enter once a year only. In the Holiest place, the High Priest would offer sacrifices for himself and the children of God, but this act was only a shadow of the propitiatory sacrifice that Christ Jesus would render on the Cross of Calvary, when He shed His blood to atone for all sins, once and for all. So, whereas the High Priest had to make a sacrifice for the people once a year, for “it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins” (Hebrew 10:4), Christ’s immeasurable work of grace on a cruel Cross would permanently remove the handwriting of sin against mankind, ushering the latter into a newness of spiritual life that was, hitherto, unavailable to him.

Anita Wolf - Williston Herald - Online Edition

Sister Anita ministered at St. Joseph's Hospital, Dickinson; St. John's School, Deer Park, Ohio; and Holy Cross Hospital, Merrill, where she served as administrator from 1960 to 1966. She also ministered at Mercy Hospital, Williston; Covenant Medical Center, Urbana, Ill.; St. Joseph's Convent, Campbellsport, Wis., and did volunteer work in Bellaire, Mich.; and Irene, S.D. She served as coordinator of the senior sisters at Bell Tower Residence. She was also the manager of the Merrill Food Pantry from 2000 until her retirement in November 2009. A Mass of Resurrection will be held 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, June 16, in Holy Cross Chapel at Bell Tower Residence, Merrill, with the Revs. Dan Crosby and Larry Johnson officiating. A visitation will take place from 9 a.m. June 16, until time of service in Holy Cross Chapel. A wake service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Burial will follow in St. Francis Cemetery, Merrill. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Bell Tower Residence or the Holy Cross Sisters.

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