IGF052 In Good Faith with Sister Rejane Cytacki, Executive Director of A Nun’s Life Ministry

A Nun's Life Ministry

In August 2021, Sister Rejane Cytacki joined A Nun's Life Ministry as executive director, succeeding Sister Maxine Kollasch. Together they have been working on the transition of leadership for that ministry--and Sister Rejane has been publishing blog posts at anunslife.org, interacting with the A Nun's Life community on social media, and getting to know the community through Facebook Live events like Praying with the Sisters. Here she is making her podcast debut! Sister Rejane is a Sister of Charity of Leavenworth, Kansas, and prior to A Nun's Life Ministry, she served as executive director of the Eco-Justice Center for the Racine Dominicans in Racine, Wisconsin Before that, she served in environmental education and campus ministry at the University of St. Mary in Leavenworth. She has also taught elementary education in Kansas and Colorado. (2:08) Surprising Kansas (3:29) Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (5:07) Playing the Celtic harp (7:03) A Nun’s Life tradition (8:42) An itinerant childhood (11:30) Getting to know the Sisters (19:25) The power of prayer

(22:09) The reality of discernment

(26:06) Back to nature

(30:58) Impact of A Nun’s Life on a nun’s life

(31:37) A solution to the chalk hearts quandary

(35:29) Authenticity

(38:25) Miss Why-tacki

(45:12) Bringing in the team

(51:15) Time zones and weather envy

(54:16) Sister Maxine’s projects

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