“I can truly say that my life as a Sister of Saint Joseph has been marked by joy. I even enjoyed most of the Novitiate experience! For 29 years I taught in diocesan Catholic schools in St Patrick´s, Mount Morris; St Francis de Sales, Geneva; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Rochester; and St Mary´s, Waterloo. I spent so much time teaching seventh grade that I still feel like a 12-year-old! 

“Then, I felt another vocational call. The result this time was that I found myself on a plane going to Brazil. During these years, my understanding and love of religious life has grown. In 2009, Sister Suzanna Wills and I answered a request to join two Sisters from two other religious congregations to live in a remote part of Brazil that has never known women religious. One day, speaking at an assembly of religious about this experience, I heard myself say, ‘If religious life had never existed, I would have had to invent it.’ So much joy!

Sister Anne returned to Rochester in 2023 after 25 years of shared life and mission in Brazil and currently ministers in Motherhouse Service.