60 Years

Sr. Philomena Agudo, fmm

From 1976 to 1980, Philomena served as a Psychotherapist at the House of Affirmation for emotionally disturbed clergy and religious. She was then invited by the Sisters of St. Francis in Sylvania, Ohio, to serve as the director of their Renewal Program.

In 1982 she was sent in mission to the Philippines to become the director of a Renewal Program for Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. She also directed a Renewal Program in Hong Kong and Macao for a year.

Back in the United States in 1984, as a member of St. John the Baptist Community, she worked as Psychotherapist, Counselor, Retreat Director, and director of workshops and seminars. In 1985 she was asked to be Psychotherapist/Counselor at the Diocesan Consultation Center in Toledo, Ohio. A year later she became Administrative Coordinator at La Salette Pastoral Shrine Counseling Services. Sr. Philomena established the Marian Center in 1992 at St. John the Baptist Convent and served as Counselor, director of individual retreats and director pastoral/psychological workshops and seminars. From July 1994 to December 1997, she was appointed coordinator for Our Lady of Peace Community in North Providence.

Sr. Philomena was then temporarily assigned to Oakland, California where she led scripture classes for the parishioners of Our Lady of Lourdes Church there. She returned to Pawtucket on March 18, 1998 and resumed her counseling ministry at St. John’s Convent. Through the Marian Center she directs retreats for out of state religious and is the spiritual director for two English and two Spanish praesidia of the Legion of Mary. She conducts two scripture classes for adults and two groups of the Cenacle for the Marian Movement. She affirms “I am determined to do God’s holy will until the end.”