Sisters in Ministry

Before returning to Mount St. Scholastica in 2022, I ministered for many years as a teacher, first in Corning, Kansas, then at Mount St. Scholastica Academy. Finding my niche at the college level, I taught math for more than twenty…

Shortly after I came home to the Mount in August 2013, I was asked to serve as the procurator or cellarer of the monastery, which involves keeping the storeroom and cupboards in order and filled with the necessary supplies, so…

On any given day, my ministry in the maintenance department involves a variety of tasks. Each morning, after turning on the choir chapel and hall lights, I pick up the slips filled out by the Sisters requesting repairs. It’s also…

My main ministry is working in the development office, helping process the day-to-day donations that come in, and sending out thank you letters to donors. In the fall, my duties include gathering donations for Night of Dreams, the monastery’s annual…

Ministries are never lacking in the monastery. Each one is an experience of the holy. My community has provided me with many life-giving and varied opportunities for spiritual growth. Over the years, I have found myself in the classroom with…

After my sophomore year of college, I entered the monastery with the expectation that I would be a teacher. And so, it happened. Over the course of 55 years, for varying degrees of duration, I taught at every level except…

After 40 plus years as Food Service Director and Lecturer at Mount St. Scholastica College, and then Benedictine College, I am involved in part of my life-long community ministry as a consultant dietitian for our Dooley Center nursing home.  My…

What a journey this has been! I entered the Community in 1960, having just been a Catholic for two years.  Although I had been raised in the Methodist Church with a deeply faith filled family, I had much to learn…

My life in ministry started the day after I finished the Novitiate.  In February 1958, I was asked to go to Council Bluffs, Iowa, to complete the year for one of the retired teachers.  Because I had some musical ability,…

I am the Director of Computing for our monastery. I make sure our network is running smoothly and repair our computers and mobile devices. I am one of our community cantors, a member of the monastic schola, and I play…

I have two primary ministries: I am the editor of Threshold and Benedictines magazines, and I am the director of the Atchison oblate deanery. For Threshold, I write and compile stories of our Benedictine life at the Mount to share with family, oblates, friends,…

As I ponder the meaning of my ministries, the word that best explains my life is “hospitality.” This is true through my childhood, living in a large family who spent time in preparing meals and welcoming family, relatives, friends and…