Sister Maura grew up in Quincy, MA, one of five children. She attended public schools throughout and upon graduation, went to work in Boston. "My mother and father were simple, religious people and I grew up in the shadow of our parish Church in a very Catholic city, but I never thought about a religious vocation. I intended to get married and have a family, as my brothers and sisters had done before me."

"'God’s ways are not always our ways" would be an appropriate description of how I came to know the Daughters of Charity. A series of unpredicted, coincidental, Providential events brought me to work at Carney Hospital, Boston where the Daughters had been for many years. Up to this point, I had never met a religious Sister and was in awe of those big white wings.  Not only did I go to work at Carney, I became the secretary to the Vocation Director"!!

"I was attracted to their down-to-earth way of being and especially toward their prayer life which was evident in the way the three Sisters I worked with related to each other." The rest is history as the saying goes.  "The Daughters have provided opportunities for me to develop talents I never knew I had.  As with all things, there have been ups and downs, but I have known great joy as a Daughter."

Sister Maura has been an elementary school teacher, a director of religious education, a campus minister, a teacher of theology, and a spiritual director. She has degrees in Elementary Education, Theology, and Spirituality and continues to identify herself as a teacher, no matter where her ministry has taken her. In her spare time you can find her in the kitchen, or at the Spectrum Theatre in Albany, catching the latest foreign or independent film. She is presently responsible for the initial and ongoing formation of the Sisters in the Northeast Province.