St. Mary Sister of Bismarck

St. Mary Sister of Bismarck – Sister Michelle Christine of Radiant Joy

A divine invitation to a wholehearted surrender after the likeness of Mary’s Fiat.

Founders: Bishop David D. Kagan, D.D., P.A., J.C.L. and Mother Mary Joseph

Place: Bismarck, North Dakota

Year: 2020 A.D.

Her Charism: Impelled by the love of Christ and consecrated in truth, this Sister helps form women into missionaries that go wherever God calls them and to begin new Houses of Formation. She spreads the radiance of religious life beginning in the Northern Great Plains. It is a rich life of prayer and self-sacrifice where she gives God permission to use her life for the salvation of the world. By contemplating and giving others the fruit of her contemplation, this Sister courageously treads St. Dominic’s path of proclaiming (preaching) the Gospel with unflagging zeal to the ends of the earth. She is ever aware that through her personal and communal prayer and penance that Christ is the center and source of her apostolic impulse. Her mission to teach becomes a beautiful overflow of her life of prayer and immersion in the Word. Attentive, creative, and devout, this Sister becomes a reflection of Christ’s life to the world. Like an Apostle at the Transfiguration, she is called up the mountain to “intimacy with her Beloved Spouse, and the splendor of the Trinitarian life.” In her battle for Truth, her primary weapon is always the Rosary.