Sister Jean Catherine Welch spent 53 years as a teacher. She taught at St. Mary, Elmira; St. Anne, Rochester; St. Stephen, Geneva; Most Precious Blood, Rochester; St. Thomas More, Rochester; St. John the Evangelist, Greece; and St. Pius X, Rochester. For the past 20 years, Sister Jean Catherine ministered as coordinator of parish volunteers at St. Pius Tenth Parish.

In 2019 while celebrating her 70th Jubilee as a Sister of Saint Joseph, she reflected, “My recent years at St. Pius Tenth have been rewarding and life-giving. I have earned the title, ‘Energizer Bunny!’ When our church was destroyed by fire in 2015, I experienced a great sense of loss. The spirit and faith of ‘Pius People’ replaced that loss, and a beautiful new church rose from the ashes! I am so proud to be a part of this!

Sister Jean Catherine continued, “The key to my entire ministry is my dependence on my God who nourishes me and gives me the graces necessary to serve Him. It is a wonderful grace to see how God works among His people and to know that in some ways He uses me as His instrument.”