Sister Spotlight

Sister Rita Epilone was a child in Queens at the time of Pearl Harbor and grew up during World War II. She calls herself, in the Catholic parlance of the day, a “public school kid”. It was not until the 7th and 8th grades that she attended Our Lady of Sorrows School in Corona and was taught by the Sisters of St. Joseph. As part of a large loving Catholic family, she and her brother attended religious instruction (“Confraternity”) twice each week and she took it very seriously. The parish priests and sisters were energetic, happy and very involved and instrumental in the lives of their young parishioners. These experiences affected Rita who always felt a “pull inside”

In 1952, she joined the Sisters of St. Joseph. Her first mission was to Visitation Parish in Red Hook near the docks of Brooklyn. At the time it was known as a rough and poor neighborhood. Sister Rita loved the parish and the children. All these years later, she is still in contact with many of them

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