Graced Faces Bio

December 31, 2021

Sister Brenda Rose Szegedy, OSF

Sister taught for 22 years before taking a new path in 1985. Since then, she’s served as Spiritual Director at the Vianney Center in OH, the Director of the St. Columban Retreat Center in NY, spent several years at the Motherhouse in Formation and Retreat ministry, six years at the Cenacle Spiritual Life Center in the Palm Beach Diocese, and, since 2008, has been a member of the Christ the King Retreat Center Ministry Team in MN.
December 31, 2021

Sister Brigid O’Shea Merriman, OSF

Sister taught grades 1 – 7 until 1974, spent a year in the House of Prayer, and chaired the Religious Studies Department at Lourdes. In 1978 she went to Berkeley, CA to earn a PhD in Theology, later teaching theology at Mount Angel Seminary in OR. Since returning in 2003, she has served as a Professor of Theology at Lourdes University and, until recently, as Formation Minister.