Sister Cecelia Joseph Olinger hits the road for Jesus

Being on the road for the Lord is nothing new for Sister Cecelia Joseph, who almost everyone calls “C.J.” She spent 15 years ministering in New Mexico, first as a teacher and then serving three Native American churches in a pueblo. She’s ministered in Clinton and Benton, Ky., which are areas with few Catholics where…

Sister Clarita Browning’s impact felt in many classrooms

(Sister Clarita Browning is retired at the Motherhouse and active in the Powerhouse of Prayer.) When the Owensboro (Ky.) Catholic K-3 Campus invited the Ursuline Sisters to a Mass on Feb. 21, Sister Clarita Browning had no idea of the gift she would receive. Several of the school’s kindergarten and first-grade teachers came to greet…

Sister Rose Jean shares a lifetime of caring with all those she meets

(This article was written in 2013. Sister Rose Jean is now the sacristan at the Motherhouse Chapel at Maple Mount, and helps in the Mount Saint Joseph Gift Shop.) Ursuline Sister Marian Powers was a student at Mount Saint Joseph Academy when she received a letter from her mother telling her about her elementary school…

Sister Michael Ann Monaghan was born to teach

(This article was written in 2013. Sister Michael Ann continues to volunteer in the afternoon in the Finance office at Maple Mount.) Ursuline Sister Michael Ann Monaghan taught first grade for 25 years, a direction that may well have begun with her first teaching assignment from Ursuline Sister Mary Ophelia Raley. “On my first day,…

Sister Marie Bosco Wathen has always made learning fun

Sister Marie Bosco Wathen feels extremely blessed to be an Ursuline Sister of Mount Saint Joseph. “I’m happy I made the choice to be an Ursuline Sister,” she says. “I have time to pray, time to discuss different topics -- and time to have fun.”

Sister Marie Goretti Browning has always been where God wanted her

(This article was written in 2012. Sister Marie Goretti remains active in the Powerhouse of Prayer at the Motherhouse.) During the seven years of her first teaching assignment from 1952-59, Sister Marie Goretti Browning taught the first, third, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. “Other sisters would say, ‘Oh I just love to teach first grade,…