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Knights of Columbus Share Story of TAC Aluma Sister
On the back cover of the latest issue of Columbia magazine, the Knights of Columbus feature TAC alumna Sr. Mary Josefa of the Eucharist (Kathleen Holcomb ’07) in their monthly appeal for vocations.
“Growing up in a Catholic homeschooling family, I received the seed of a religious vocation early,” writes Sr. Mary Josefa. “My parents’ efforts to attend daily Mass, in particular, taught me to cherish the Lord’s real presence in the Eucharist. After Mass, I sometimes wondered how we could leave the Lord in the empty church. Shouldn’t some of us always be with him? Did he want me to? How would I?”
She began to find an answer to those questions, she continues, when pursuing the College’s program of Catholic liberal education: “These questions persisted during my studies at Thomas Aquinas College, where I learned to appreciate that a life dedicated to contemplating the truth, especially divine truth, is intrinsically worthwhile.”
Sr. Mary Josefa belongs to the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, who pursue a Marian charism of praying for priests while living according to the ancient Rule of St. Benedict. Founded in 1995 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the sisters relocated to Gower, Missouri, in 2006. Over the years, the congregation has attracted dozens of aspiring young women, including two other TAC alumnae: Sr. Sophia (Gina ’08) Eid, OSB, and Gwyneth Owen (’08). In response to this rapid expansion, in 2019 the Abbess sent seven adventurous sisters to establish the congregation’s first daughter house, the Monastery of St. Joseph, in Ava, Missouri — and among them was Sr. Mary Josefa.
Although well known for their choral recordings, the Sisters rose to a newfound prominence last year when it was learned that the body of their long-deceased foundress, Sr. Wilhelmina Lancaster, O.S.B., was exhumed “in a remarkable state of preservation,” as Sr. Mary Josefa described it. “It was an assurance for us that Sister’s humble life was precious in God’s eyes, and that He preserved her in some way for us to see.”
Such experiences have no doubt affirmed Sr. Mary Josefa’s vocation, which she now shares with the readers of Columbia. Her time with her contemplative community, she writes, “has fulfilled my childhood desire to be always with God.”