Sister Mary Rae has ministered as a physician’s associate for many years, working in clinics in Atchison, Effingham and Nortonville, as well as Atchison Hospital and the Atchison Hospital Health Clinic..

She is currently the clinic director/physician assistant of the monastery clinic.

She also taught for a number of years in Kansas and Missouri.

She loves sports, crafts, and reading, and tends the turtles in the monastery garden.