2024 Jubiliarian
Serving as a teacher in the segregated South shifted the course of Sister Margaret Ann Parrish’s life. “I loved the kids and loved being around them,” she says, “but I could tell that, emotionally, they needed more help than I could give them,” in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Seeing young people carry the burdens and trauma of racism into her classroom at St. Paul of the Cross in Atlanta, GA, sparked a desire in Sister Meg to care for the psychological needs of our dear neighbors. Returning to Pittsburgh, she pursued a master’s degree in counseling and spent the next 15 years as guidance counselor and pastoral minister, first at St. Bernard and St. Mary of the Mount and later at Kane Regional Center and St. John in Uniontown.
In 1988, she became Associate Director of Christian Brothers Spirituality Center in Adamstown, MD, and continued to provide spiritual direction, both in Maryland and in Baden, through 2020.
Gentle, kind, and knowledgeable, Sister Meg finds joy in God’s love and in affirming the good in others.
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