‘We Lost Sister Grace on Monday’

Sister Barbara Srozenski in a chemistry class at the Academy of Mount Saint Vincent in Tuxedo Park in 1969, when she was 35 years old. Photo: Courtesy of the subject The sisters of Mount Saint Vincent Convent, in the Bronx, are not inclined toward self-pity. They are much more comfortable looking outward. Many of them entered the convent as young women in the 1950s, saying no to marriage and children at a time when those things were assumed to be a woman’s calling.

Sister Theresa Courtney: I had first, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth grades and then high-school English. After that, I went to work for an organization that helped women who had been abused by their spouse. They would call us when they had to get out of the house. I did that for 15 years. For me, living this life, specifically vowing poverty, chastity, obedience — it felt natural. I think it was in the back of my mind since I was in the seventh grade. I just knew.

But the next week, I met, by chance, a sister who had taught me fifth grade. We were talking casually, and afterward she said, “You used to have a vocation, but I think you have lost it.” That scared the life out of me. We’d never spoken about it before. So it must have been quite plain that God had called me and I’d changed my mind. After that, I never questioned my call again.

Sister Theresa: We were right across from a gorgeous park. But Rita had taken a few falls, so we moved up here, to the retirement house, a year and a half ago. Being retired is almost like a dream come true in a sense, in that I have marvelous amounts of time here to do all the praying and reading that I really didn’t have before. I’m more open to accepting my relationship with God as having an awful lot to do with people; every person is an expression of God.

Sister Margaret: The coronavirus has brought out, for so many of us, how important every job is. Everybody should be receiving a just wage so they can live a decent life. I think of God the creator, who was so extravagant: millions and millions of stars and all kinds of flowers and animals and fruits! God is so generous. So people who have been more fortunate, they do have an obligation to share. I hope that this will be an outcome of this virus.

ameliaschonbek I graduated from there in ‘03. Their convent is right on campus. R.I.P. Sister Grace 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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