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My ministries in Newfoundland included teaching elementary school children, nursing as a hospital staff nurse, a community health nurse, a nursing supervisor, the administrator of Presentation Emergency Shelter for Children, and the Director of Nursing at Presentation Motherhouse. As a member of the Newfoundland Congregation, I served for twelve years as a councillor on our Congregational Leadership Team and eight years as Congregational Leader. In 2015, following a long and meaningful discernment process, our Newfoundland Congregation joyfully fused with the Union of Presentation Sisters. These experiences brought blessings and challenges that deepened my love for the charism of Nano Nagle.

In 2018, I left my homeland in Canada to serve as a member of the Congregational Leadership Team in Ireland. Those years were challenging as I walked a journey that helped me to learn what it means to live as a member of an international Congregation. While learning about the different realities in various Units and working with a team of women from different cultures, backgrounds and experiences, I have been inspired by the generosity and commitment of our Sisters. I was elected to the current Congregational Leadership Team at our Congregational Gathering in 2024 and am currently serving as Congregational Leader until 2030. As a member of the Congregation, I have a passion and energy for living the mission of the Gospel and the charism of Nano. I am grateful for the honor of walking the journey of life with many people. Being a member of the Congregational Leadership Team is a challenging invitation to grow in leadership with my Sisters and to work together in bringing forth the best of who we are for the life and mission that we share.

After my First Profession in 1988, I taught in the Kindergarten and Open school in Delhi. My desire was always to work at the periphery given my passion for justice and adventure. I had a dream to be a missionary to Latin America, but my health at that time did not enable it. However, I was happy to teach in five Diocesan schools in Goa for nearly twenty years, as the children were mostly tribal, migrants and from low-income families. These years were challenging being an employee of a management other than our own, but the joy was in engaging in the lives of these children, visiting their homes, counselling them, getting to know their parents etc. This was an opportunity to bring our Charism to these schools and into the homes. Teaching of Mathematics and Science enabled me to integrate Spirituality together with the call of the International Presentation Association and the Congregational Gathering Directions over the years. I was on the Circle Leadership Team since June 2020 until I was elected to be a member of the Congregational Leadership Team at our Congregational Gathering 2024. This ministry enables me to know my Sisters and together hold the vision of being a joyful presence and work towards the corporate life and mission of the Congregation.

Although as a Congregation we may be dwindling in numbers, I feel hopeful, like Nano, to trust in providence. Our origins were small, fragile, vulnerable and yet here we are 250 years later. Who, but the Divine Providence alone could do such a miracle! I believe in our young Sisters, companions in mission and the Friends of Nano who have the vibrancy to spread the Presentation ethos and charism worldwide. Our evolving Spirituality urges us to inner transformation, to explore religious life in the context of the emerging future. The political, socio-economic scenario, the global boiling and environmental degradation invite us to listen to the heartbeat of God in the cry of those kept poor and the cry of the Earth. The challenge is to listen where the God of the Universe beckons and respond in these turbulent times of war and annihilation of all life. The challenges and the urgency stretch and energise me to see possibilities in moments of uncertainty. If Nano could, why can’t we! this being the propulsion to take a step forward.

In 2002, I took a leap of faith and joined the Presentation Sisters and I have been a Presentation Sister for more than 20 years now. Most of those years were spent in administration work in our school ministries. I was also involved in Formation, initially through the Campus Ministry of our school and eventually, accompanying our Candidates in Initial Formation. I was called to the Leadership ministry of our Unit and was serving as Unit Leader in the Philippine Unit until I was elected as a member of the Congregational Leadership Team at our Congregational Gathering 2024. I am grateful for the opportunities that I have had especially in ministering to our Sisters and our mission in the Philippines and Thailand, and for the experiences of oneness and support that have made me grow in my sense of the internationality and interculturality of our being Presentation.