Curriculum Vitae

V  A native of East Liberty, Pittsburgh

V  Entered Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill, Greensburg, 1951

V  Seton Hill University, Greensburg,
Graduated, 1962

V  Dayton University, Ohio
Summer sessions

V  Viterbo University, Wis.
Summer sessions

V  Yad Vashem, Israel, 1989

Ministries

V  Little Sisters of the Poor Infirmary

V  Head Start, instructor

V  Primary teacher in dioceses of Pittsburgh and Greensburg, 42 years

V  School administrator, St. Paul School, Greensburg, 13 years

V  Minister of care
 St. Regis Parish, 1993

Coordinator

Resource Person

V  Coordinates training for all personnel who administer the Rite of Committal and the wake services.

V  Collaborates with the pastor on hospital visitation and home visiting.

V  Recruits persons for nursing home/personal care home visitation, visitation and communion calls to the homebound.

V  Oversees the following ministries: Keeping in Touch and When You Care Enough.

V  Assists with the funeral rites; wake services and burial rites.

V  Provides resources to ministers for their ministry.

V  Provides scriptural reading material for the sick and homebound.

V  Encourages ministers to attend programs and workshops in the areas of their ministry.

V  Acts as consultant to parishioners for planning funerals.

Minister

Public Relations

V  Takes communion to the homebound monthly.

V  National Association of Catholic Chaplains

V  Visits the local hospitals weekly.

V  National Catholic Ministry to the Bereaved

V  Visits health care facilities monthly.

Steward

V  Visits funeral homes, attends funerals and proclaims the intercessions.

V  Supports parish mission

V  Promotes the pastoral plan

V  Does follow up visits or phone calls after funerals and hospital stays.

V  Extraordinary minister of holy Communion

V  Lector

V  Greeter