Sisters in Ministry

During my years as a Benedictine Sister, I have served in many capacities, among them as a high school teacher and as associate director at Keeler Women’s Center in Kansas City. Since returning to Mount St. Scholastica in 2020, I…

Over the years, my ministries focused on either teaching or coordinating liturgies, both at Mount St. Scholastica and for six years in a parish. I can honestly say that I loved both worlds! Now, in my “senior years,” I find…

My primary ministry is being present for the Liturgy of the Hours, the Eucharist, and being obedient to my Sisters. That truly is my PRIMARY ministry. As for “labora,” I am a gardener inside the monastery and outside the monastery.…

My ministries continue to be centered on books, perhaps because that’s all I know. English, especially literature, was my field of study, and is what I taught for most of my teaching years until I retired from the seminary college…

Since 1984, my work has been mostly in spiritual ministry: spiritual direction, teaching and leading retreats. The areas of most concentration have been contemplative prayer, the mystics, dreamwork, the Enneagram, and Benedictine spirituality. I’ve led classes and retreats on these…

My current ministry is Director of Development for Mount St. Scholastica and our ministries. This ministry is a blessing to me because I am able to meet and visit on the phone with our family members, donors and benefactors.  In…

Since the fall of 2014, I have worked at the Benedictine College library. I started solely in circulation, being at the front desk, greeting the students as they came in, managing both student and faculty/staff overdue materials and trying to…

As treasurer of the community, my primary responsibility is to steward the assets of the monastery.   For me this means responsible care and decision making of all that is entrusted to me – not for the sake of accumulating financial…