Sister Janet Brisky Social Media Feature

Sister Janet Brisky, who spent several years in education ministry prior to her current work in pastoral ministry, says "one of the highlights of my ministry life was meeting Dorothy Day at the Catholic Worker in Manhattan. I was there with a bus full of Burke Catholic High School students, and the room was filled with Dorothy's humility."

Through their own direct ministry and through interaction with those they meet along the way, each Presentation sister has a unique and treasured set of memories of her vowed life. Meeting Dorothy Day, known for her social justice campaigns in defense of the poor, forsaken, hungry and homeless, must have felt like meeting a kindred spirit for Janet. As a Sister of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Janet joins her sisters in striving to meet unmet needs of those they serve, particularly women and children.

Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker Movement served the poor in more than two hundred communities! Surely Nano would have welcomed her as a partner in mission and applauded her work.