Former UP Professor of English and Comparative Literature Josefina Dionisio (JD) Constantino (28 March 1920-19 July 2024), known to many as Sr. Teresa Joseph Patrick of Jesus & Mary, OCD, passed away at 4:00 a.m. today, 19 July 2014. She was 104.
Sister Teresa is a UP College of Education and Columbia University (English and Comparative Literature) alumna. She was a student of pioneering fictionist and creative writing teacher Paz Marquez Benitez at UP and Pulitzer-winning poet and critic Mark Van Doren at Columbia. Later, she held grants and fellowships at Edinburgh, MIT, and Michigan.
In UP, she was Secretary of the University and the Board of Regents under President Vidal Arceo Tan (1951-1955). Her students include National Artist Amelia Lapeña Bonifacio, poet Virginia Moreno, Inquirer columnist Belinda Olivarez Cunanan, and former Malacañang Press Secretary and Manila Bulletin Editor-in-Chief Crispulo Icban.
As a critic, she is widely remembered for her critiques on National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin: “The Woman Who Had Two Navels” (review), published in Philippine Studies [vol. 9 no. 4 (1961): 639–650], and “Illusion and Reality in Nick Joaquin,” in Philippine fiction: essays from Philippine studies, 1953-1972 [ ed. Joseph A. Galdón S.J., Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1972: 13-24]. Her other works include The Asian religious sensibility and Christian (Carmelite) spirituality, the folly is the glory of the cross (UP Press, 2010), and Five Letters to St. Teresa (2011). Before joining the Carmelites, she became a Development Bank of the Philippines and a Manila Chronicle columnist.
Schedule of Viewing of +Sr Teresa Joseph Patrick of Jesus and Mary, OCD
July 19 – 1 p.m. until 9 pm
July 20 – The gate will open at 5 am
Funeral Mass at 1 pm to be presided over by the Bishop of Cubao, Most Rev. Honesto F. Ongtioco, D.D.
Schedule of Viewing of +Sr Teresa Joseph Patrick of Jesus and Mary, OCD
Today, it will start at 1 p.m. until 9 pm
July 20 – The gate will open at 5 am
Funeral Mass at 1 pm to be presided over by our dear Bishop of Cubao, Most Rev. Honesto F. Ongtioco, D.D.
Masses for Sister Teresa will be streamed online.
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Source: Jose Wendell Capili I Facebook post
