Hometown: Rush City, Minnesota

Entrance date: August 1998

First Profession date: July 22, 2000;

Final Profession date: June 20, 2004 

Educational background: B.A. in accounting; M.A. in liberal studies; Juris Doctor (law)

Work background: 25+ years in accounting; three years in law; Diocesan Tribunal, Parish Manager

Present ministry: Hildegard Health Serviced Payroll and Pre-editor of spirituality resources at the monastery 

Other interests: Playing trumpet, French horn, recorder, guitar for monastic liturgies, reading, knitting, watching sports, playing with monastery cats

What attracted me to this community: I had been a member of the Sisters of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, MN in the 1970s. I left the community in 1978 and began working as an accountant, joined the MN Army National Guard and continued my education. During graduate school, I began to reclaim my Benedictine heritage. While visiting St. Meinrad and Ferdinand, I realized that my deepest desire was to live fully the Benedictine monastic life. The sisters here at Ferdinand seemed to be the community God was calling me to.