Local Grad Professes Vows As Dominican Sister

A former member of St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Beaver Dam was among seven women who recently made their final profession of vows as Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia Congregation in Nashville, Tenn.

Sr. Elizabeth Marie Kalscheur, O.P., made her perpetual profession of the simple vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience on July 25. The Mass for the Rite of Perpetual Religious Profession was celebrated at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville.

Sr. Kalscheur is the daughter of David and Barbara Kalscheur, also parishioners at St. Katharine Drexel. She is a graduate of Beaver Dam High School and the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul, Minn.), where she earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Catholic studies.

While a student at St. Thomas, she studied for one year at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome (the Angelicum). She received a bachelor of science degree in interdisciplinary studies (education) from Aquinas College in Nashville. She is now teaching at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Carmel, Ind.

The Sisters of St. Cecilia are dedicated to the apostolate of Catholic education. The community of 270 sisters serves in 38 schools throughout the United States, with a house in Sydney, Australia, and new mission houses opening this year in Houston, Texas and in Vancouver, British Columbia.