A CHANGING CLIMATE

Khlaire Parre and Sr. Cecile Leclerc, p.m. connected at a press conference at the UN Climate Change Conference in Nairobi, Kenya. “My habit made me stand out,” says Sr. Cecile. “She noticed my pin and recognized me as a Sister of the Presentation of Mary.” When the two women spoke, they discovered both had ties to Rivier. “To realize she wasn’t just a member of the same order, but that we had a direct connection through Rivier was extremely exciting,” says Khlaire. With over 6,000 people at the two-week convention and hundreds of different workshops to choose from daily, it’s amazing the two women ran into each other at a press conference. But by the time each woman left Nairobi, the amazing was on its way to commonplace.