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From Maryknoll Sisters

Sister Rolande Pendeza Kahindo, M.M. made her first vows at a special Mass celebrated at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, NY on Sunday, August 4th, 2019.

Rolande was born and raised in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, Zaire, or Belgian Congo). She comes from a family of seven and is the second born and eldest sister. Her passions include: Gardening, knitting, singing and dancing.

Rolande holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Education from Tangaza College, a Constituency of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. She first heard about the Maryknoll Sisters in 2014 when she was working as a teacher in Dodoma, Tanzania, with the Jesuit Fathers. She says, “I was attracted to the sisters because of their simplicity of life, their missionary spirit of crossing borders to meet those living on the margins, and their willingness to go to remote areas and share life with the poor according to one’s giftedness.”

Rolande did her first year of integration and acculturation with the Maryknoll Sisters in Chicago, there she lived in a community and continued to learn about the Maryknoll spirituality while taking classes from CTU (Catholic Theological Union). She then did her Canonical year in Saint Louis. After making her First Vows, she has now entered the mission phase, where she will begin discerning about where God wants her to be on mission.