It was holy obedience that brought Sister Mary Patrick to Louisiana State University to begin graduate work in her late forties. Sister Mary Damian Cazale recalls the grueling ordeal it was. Evidently the graduate students took the same courses as the undergrads, but with heavy additional requirements. Several sisters recalled her devotion, energy, enthusiasm, humor and her patience in enduring pain without complaining, as when she suffered severe injuries in a car accident. Sister Mary Patrick left us a rare treasure.
Life is too short.
I would rather give the time to prayer. Not in the winters of her old age, most assuredly. Perhaps Sister Mary Patrick was the exception, who did both.