A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated May 19 in St. Lucy Chapel in Villa Walsh, Morristown, for Filippini Sister Domenica Troina who died May 12. She was 93.
Born in Nutley, Sister Domenica entered the Religious Teachers Filippini in 1954. She received the habit in 1955 and made her religious profession in 1958. She earned a bachelor of science degree in elementary education from St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia.
In her 69 years of religious life, Sister Domenica ministered as a classroom teacher, vice principal and religious education coordinator, serving in the Archdioceses of Newark, Hartford and Philadelphia, and in the Dioceses of Brooklyn, Metuchen, Paterson, Scranton and Trenton.
Sister Domenica’s ministry in the Trenton Diocese dates to the 1960s. She taught in St. Jerome School, West Long Branch, 1965-1968; St. Joachim School, Trenton, 1968-1970, and then was both a teacher and principal in the school form 1970-1980; was principal of St. Jerome School, West Long Branch, 1988-1990; taught in Holy Innocents School, Neptune, 1996-1997, and Villa Victoria Academy, Ewing, 1997-1998; vice principal of Holy Family School, Lakewood, 1998-2004. From 2004-2005, she was an assistant in St. Joseph by the Sea Retreat House, Mantoloking, followed by parish religious education assignments in Our Lady of the Angels, Trenton, where she was assistant director from 2013-2017 and was also an assistant director in St. Gregory the Great Parish, Hamilton Square, from 2017-2020. For four years from 2020-2024, she then volunteered in the religious education program in St. Gregory the Great. Prior to her death, she offered her services in the convent on the campus of Villa Victoria Academy, where she resided.
Sister Domenica was predeceased by her parents; four brothers and three sisters. She is survived by many nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews and their families.
Memorial donations may be made to the Religious Teachers Fiilippini, c/o Sister Patricia Pompa, MFP, Villa Walsh, 455 Western Ave., Morristown, N.J. 07960.