Rose Weidenbenner

Rose Weidenbenner is a member of the Sisters of Mercy, an international community with sisters living and ministering in the Caribbean, Central and South America, the Pacific and the continental United States. Rose grew up in southeast Missouri, in a town founded by German immigrants in the early 1900s.  She currently lives on the U.S. border in Alamo, Texas. Her background in social work has been helpful in ministries of service over the past 40+ years, currently with the women and community of ARISE Adelante. 

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Family portrait includes six nuns.

On whose shoulders I stand

Some 38 religious sisters emerged from two Missouri parishes where Sr. Rose Weidenbenner grew up. "These sisters have witnessed to me — and to all of us — how God's love and call leads us to be of service in many places," she writes.