For the Religious of the archdiocese, all roads led to the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception May 8, when Father John Adamski celebrated a liturgy honoring this year’s jubilarians.

Sister Mary Jane Lubinski, OP, Sister Janice Mary Sobszak, IHM, and Sister Terese Matthews, GNSH, attended the celebration, hosted by the Atlanta Conference of Sisters.

Sister Lubinski, a Dominican from Adrian, Mich., has worked in legal advocacy for people with AIDS through the Atlanta Legal Aid Society for the last five years. She is also a member of the archdiocesan AIDS Task Force and a parishioner at Our Lady of Lourdes in Atlanta. Her silver jubilee is August 6.

Sister Sobszak, a native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., teaches math in the upper grades at Sts. Peter and Paul school in Decatur. She has taught in the archdiocese a total of 10 of her 25 years in religious life. Her community celebrated her jubilee in April.

Sister Matthews celebrates 60 years as a Religious. Now retired, she had taught in elementary and secondary schools in the Northeast. At the present time she is involved in making crafts and volunteers once a week at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta. Because of the recent deaths of two Grey Nuns, Sister Betty Donohue and Sister Jeannette Crosson, the sisters of her community here in Atlanta are planning a simple picnic May 29 at St. Jude the Apostle convent in Sandy Springs.

Other Religious celebrating jubilee this year were unable to attend the May 8 Mass. Sister Lorraine Mascucci, RSM, a Mercy sister from Rochester, N.Y., is celebrating her 50th year as a Religious. She coordinates adult enrichment at St. Ann’s parish in Marietta.

Four Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus who staff St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens are also jubilarians.

Sister Antonette Martinko, MSC, and Sister Brenda Serina, MSC, are 60 year jubilarians. Sister Martinko works in administration at the hospital and has been there since 1966. Sister Serina is in the business office at the hospital.

Sister Marguerite Yech, MSC, who works in home health care, celebrates her 50th jubilee and Sister Mary Louis Matoon, an x-ray technologist, celebrates her 25th anniversary.

Speaking of jubilarians, Sister Margaret McAnoy, IHM, president of the sisters’ conference, said, “They are a sign to the rest of the Religious in the archdiocese and … to all the people of the archdiocese that this is a life worth living and that commitments can be made and lived out.