Sister Beverly Jeanne Howe’s years of ministry can be considered in three phases: elementary education, canon law, and English language instructor. She taught elementary school at St. Margaret Mary School, Algonquin, Ill., (1962-1963 and 1978-1983); Our Lady of Grace School, Chicago (1963-1969); Our Lady of Lourdes School, Decatur, Ill., (1969-1971); and St. Christina School, Chicago (1971-1978 and 1983-1985). She transitioned to pastoral ministry at St Malachy Parish, Rantoul, Ill. (1985-1993); and at St. Edward Parish, Chicago (1993-1995) before […]

Sister Rosemary McGuire is a lifelong educator who enjoyed learning as much as she enjoyed teaching. Her first teaching assignment was a double classroom of first and second graders at St. Thomas School, Crystal Lake, Ill., 1962-1969. From there she moved on to St. Augustine School, Richmond, Mich., 1969-1970, then St. Vincent De Paul, Peoria, where she taught for a year. After a year of study at St. Ambrose College, she returned to the primary classroom at St. […]

Caring for children has been at the heart of Sister Josetta’s vocation. If she was not teaching primary grade students she was supporting families by caring for their children in day care settings in Bourbonnais, Ill., or Rogers, Ark. After 18 years serving her sisters at Sacred Heart Convent, where she was a driver oversaw the distribution of medicines and medical supplies, she has returned to the ministry of childcare at a learning center in Belleville, Ill. Sister […]

Many years of ministry in elected leadership have kept Sister Rose Miriam close to her home diocese of Springfield-and provided a global perspective. Quincy born and raised, she’s taught and studied in Chicago and New Orleans, where she completed a counseling degree, and served for a time in Duluth, Minn. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic she put her counseling skills to good use by providing a webinar on dealing with grief that can be accessed […]

Sister June was born and raised in Chicago and spent much of her religious life serving in Aurora, Ill., where she taught English as a second language and worked part time as a hospital chaplain. She ministered for two years at San Juan Pablo II school in Lima, Peru, as well. It was after her return to the United States that she found her niche teaching English language learners. She taught in two college level programs in Aurora. […]

Sister Judith Ann was born and raised in Chicago and has spent much of her religious life in service to the people of that archdiocese. For 19 years she was teacher, and then principal of Marian Catholic High School, Chicago Heights. She has had broad ministerial experience as a junior high teacher in parochial schools in Peoria and Chicago, and was principal of St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Hammond, La. She also worked in vocation ministry in the […]

Sister Ann Vincent is a Chicago native who has spent much of her ministerial life in her hometown. Since 1985 she has ministered at St. Christina Parish, Chicago, first as an elementary school teacher and since 1991 as a minister of care for the large urban parish. She began her teaching career in primary grades at Sacred Heart School, Granite City, Ill., (1962-1964), then in Morrisonville, Ill., at St. Maurice (1964-1972). During her yeas at St. Edward School, […]

Much of sister Jane Ann’s ministerial life has been spent in the archdiocese of Chicago and the Rockford diocese. She taught theology and home economics at Marian Catholic High School, Chicago Heights, and for 24 years has served in various capacities at the Dominican Literacy Center, Aurora. Since 2011 she has coordinated the citizenship program at the center, preparing permanent legal residents of the United States for their citizenship tests. “It’s a privilege to work with our students […]