Marie Therese (Marite) Langlois,
staff worker of Madonna House, died
peacefully on Saturday, March 23, 2019
in Our Lady of the Visitation, St. Mary’s,
Combermere, ON.
Marite, daughter of Eugene Jean and
M. Cecily McDonnell Langlois, was born
in Westmount, Quebec. She attended
St. Paul’s Academy in Westmount, the
Convent of the Sacred Heart in Montreal,
and continued studies at McGill
University, Montreal.
She first visited Madonna House in
December 1950 and made her first
promises as a member of the Community
on May 3, 1952. Marite served at Marian Centre, Edmonton, and
pioneered in the work of the Catholic Information Centre there. She
also served in Winslow, AZ, and for nearly ten years in the West Indies,
both on the island of Carriacou and in Victoria, Grenada. Aside
from time spent at Madonna House, Moncton, and Madonna House,
Alpena, MI, the rest of her apostolic life was in Combermere, where
her secretarial skills and her gift of hospitality enriched both members
of the community and guests.
Marite was predeceased by her parents, by her brother, Jean, and
by her sister, Babette Brody of Barry’s Bay, ON.
Marite will be waked Wednesday, March 27, with Visitation from 2 to 4
p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. with a Wake Service at 8 p.m. at St. Mary’s Chapel,
Madonna House. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m.
Thursday, March 28 at St. Mary’s Chapel with internment following at the
Madonna House cemetery. A reception will follow.