Three Celebrate 25 Years of Benedictine Life


From left to right: Sisters Kathleen Flanagan, Patricia Seipel, and Mary Rardin

The Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica joyfully celebrated the 25th anniversary of monastic profession of three of their members on October 2, 2011.

Sister Patricia Seipel is from Maryville, Missouri and was first inspired to consider religious life by the sisters who taught her in grade school. In her nearly three decades as an educator, she has taught in eight places, and also served for four years as community vocation director. She presently lives in Kansas City, Mo. and teaches at Visitation School there.

Sister Mary Rardin, a Topeka native, entered the community after finishing medical school, serving 3 years as a doctor in the U.S. Navy and completing her family practice residency. Since then, she has continued to serve as a physician, practicing with the poor and homeless, as a faculty physician at KU Medical Center, and in underserved rural areas.

Sister Kathleen Flanagan first encountered the sisters when she came from Denver, Colo. to Atchison as a Benedictine College student. She has been an elementary teacher and is now a school librarian for the Kansas City Kansas public school system.

Read also the reflection given by Sister Anne at the Eucharist.




Renewal of vows: Sisters Patricia, Mary, and Kathleen