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Brescia Welcomes Medical Mission Sister to Campus

Brescia University, through its Contemporary Woman Program, is delighted to invite the entire community to a presentation by Medical Mission Sister, Miriam Therese Winter Ph.D., on November 3 at 7 pm. Her presentation, “Spirituality in a Quantum Universe,” will be held in Taylor Lecture Hall, located in the Brescia Science Building.

Sister Miriam Therese currently is a professor of liturgy, worship, and spirituality at Hartford Seminary, in Hartford, Connecticut.

She is a composer, singer, author, and professor. Her album went gold in the U.S. and Australia in 1966. She has gone on to record more than a dozen additional albums and toured in Africa, Australia, Europe, New Zealand, and North America.

Sister Miriam Therese earned a Master’s Degree in Religious Education from McMaster Divinity College in Ontario, and a Ph.D. in Liturgical Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1980, she became the first female on the faculty of the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, where she now serves as Professor of Liturgy, Worship, Spirituality, and Feminist Studies in the Center for Faith in Practice. She is also Director of the Women’s Leadership Institute in Hartford.

Author of numerous books and dozens of articles, Sister Miriam Therese lectures and travels extensively.

Tickets may be purchased in advance or at the door. They are $10 for adults and $5 for students. Contact Sr. Rose Marita O’Bryan, Director of the Contemporary Woman Program, at 270-686-4275 or [email protected] for more information.