My home diocese is Rochester, New York. The current bishop, Bishop Matthew Clark, confirmed me when I was in grade school, and is a friend of the family. So I try to keep up on what’s going on in the diocese. I found this great article written by Bishop Clark — “Priest, nun offer faithful witness” in his column Along the Way in the Catholic Courier (10.23.08).

Of the priest and the sister, Bishop Clark writes,

“They teach us how to live. They remind us of what is important and what is not. They challenge us in their own gracious ways — to think about what drives us, about our deepest values and our final destiny.”

Sister Marguerite Dynski is a Catholic nun, cancer survivor, paraplegic, and doctor. She belongs to the Sisters of Saint Joseph in Rochester, New York. Her story is described a bit in an interview the ABC TV channel 13 in Rochester.

The interview comes shortly after Marguerite’s participation in the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. There are many such walks, runs, fund-raisers and other events this month as October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Check out the video of Sister Marguerite by clicking on the photo to the right (the link takes you to the channel 13 website where you can see the video). Even though it’s a short segment, I felt such a light and peace coming from this Sister. Next time I’m home to visit my family in Rochester (my home town), I’ll have to look up Sister Marguerite and see if she’ll do an interview for us here at A Nun’s Life!