Session 2 - Welcome & Keynote Address

Sisters of Life

Sr. Maris Stella is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. She served in The U.S. Navy for nearly a decade, as a gunnery officer on a destroyer off the coast of South America on drug interdiction missions, and later representing her nation as a liaison officer at the Navy’s base in Naples, Italy. A Catholic lay leader the whole time, when she completed her honorable military service she accepted an even higher calling: to serve Jesus Christ and his Mother as a Sister of Life, recalling that her “heart was made for something more.” A Sister of Life since 2006, Sr. Maris Stella moved to Denver in 2015 to help open a new convent and to minister especially to young adults in the Archdiocese, including college students. In her DFMC talk, Sr. Maris Stella will inspire all present to reach higher in our own lives of service to The Lord and to others, and to recognize the awesome responsibility each of us has as officers of The Church.