Sister Judith found her home in the Benedictine order
Former teacher serving now as an English tutor for adults, librarian in Fort Smith
Published: February 25, 2019
FORT SMITH — The feast of St. Scholastica was celebrated at the Fort Smith convent by accepting the perpetual vows of one of its members.
Sister Judith Maria Timmerman, OSB, became the first member of St. Scholastica Monastery to make her perpetual profession in the new monastery Feb. 10. The sisters, in a flurry of last-minute preparations, made their transition to the new monastery Feb. 8.
Sister Maria DeAngeli, OSB, prioress, said, “We are grateful for Sister Judith Maria’s ‘yes’ to God’s call to her to walk the monastic way of life with us.”
For Sister Judith, the weekend represented the culmination of a “very long journey,” which began when she joined the Church in 1997.
“When I became Catholic I was at a point in my life where I was searching for a deeper relationship with God,” said Sister Judith, who was baptized into the Baptist faith as a child. “I visited different churches. When I went to a Halloween party at my mother’s friend’s church and met Father Charles Thessing, he was just so joyful and fun that I thought, ‘Jesus would be like this.’ I went to Mass the next Sunday (at St. Jude Church in Jacksonville) and as soon as I walked in
Article source: https://www.arkansas-catholic.org/news/article/5952/Sister-Judith-found-her-home-in-the-Benedictine-order