Thank you so much for all of the recordings provided. I indirectly heard of Sr. Anneliese’s passing or Aunt Cela as I called her just last week. We do not live close to each other so we kept in touch through the years through emails. I have very fond memories of her since I was a little girl going to the convent to see her(it was so quiet there!), in my twenties her visiting me as she traveled through Az. and lastly spending a couple days with her a few years after my dad passed. She always remembered my children on their birthdays and holidays and I’m grateful we stayed in touch as the years went by. Thank you again for all of the recordings. ❤️

Very sad to learn of Sister Anneliese's passing. I was fortunate to have been taught by Sister Anneliese when I was a student at St Philip Neri in Chicago. I am class of 1970. Sister Anneliese came over to Aquinas Dominican (it was literally right next store to Neri) so I was lucky to still see her. I was in choir at Neri and would come up to school early for choir lessons and practice. I think my senior year, Sister Anneliese entered us in a CYO competition and we had the best of times. We sang "Simple Things". She was a wonderful teacher, amazing. She was incredibly patient and good with all levels of students. I watched her video, never knew she grew up in OLP or was even from Chicago. I think when we were kids, we thought all the Adrian Dominican nuns came from somewhere in Detroit (well except for my cousins).

I wish I had known that Sister Anneliese was living in Detroit, as I have lived there off and on over the years, last stint was 2016-2019.

Sister Anneliese was the best of the best, I think those of us who were taught by her were especially lucky, as the saying goes, we were better for having known her.

AnnR

Sr Anneliese was one of the most influential persons in my life.
She spoke up for my entrance into St Philip Neri when I was trying to transfer there from Faulkner School for girls.
I had been very unhappy when my family moved from our house on Luella to 72 nd and the lake and entered me into Faulkner. I should have gone to the other Catholic school in our new district but my friends were at Neri. There was a young African American boy who was being accepted into Neri from out of the district and from what I heard she spoke up and said if you take him you have to take Carol. I transferred there in seventh grade.
I loved my two years at Neri. The sisters were amazing.
Sr Anneliese taught me music and Science. She always looked so fresh and neat and she smelled like ivory soap.
I then entered Aquinas where our friendship continued. She helped me navigate the death of my father and I helped her with the death of her mother. We remained friends throughout the years and she was a genuinely wonderful person.

Anneliese’s forward-thinking contributions to women's role in the Church undoubtedly made a difference. I am proud of her and applaud all her accomplishments. Anneliese and so many of the other Adrian Dominican sisters I came to know changed my life. She will be missed.

Sisters, Whereas in our Dominican tradition we recognize that a member who has remained at the Priory or Motherhouse cooking for a lifetime is as important to the Holy Preaching as the most zealous professor or eloquent pulpit preacher is, it is only honest and true to acknowledge that Sister Anneleise's contributions to theology, theological education, women's issues in ecclesiology and ecumenism have been stellar, numerous and harnessed much appreciation. In addition to ranking among that heroic generation of Catholic school Sisters with enormous enrollments at a time when Catholic education was making a profound imprint on our entire Nation, she took the Order's name with her into several intellectual and pastoral frontiers and was widely admired. Her accomplishments included memberships in the Detroit Catholic Pastoral Alliance, the West Detroit Interfaith Community Organization, the American Association of University Professors, the College Theology Society, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Women's Theology Initiative, to name only what I knew about. Anneliese will be missed as a person, a friend to many, a teacher, a professor, an explorer, and many more things that are reflective of her wonderful personal identity as well as of her professional stature. She has done our Order proud! May God grant her eternal rest.