Article: New prioress is elected.

Apr. 14--Sister Christine Ereiser has been elected the next prioress of St. Joseph Monastery, 2200 S. Lewis Ave., a community of Benedictine nuns. She will replace Sister Barbara Austin, who completes her term as prioress on July 1. In a Benedictine community, the prioress is spiritual leader and also president of the corporation. "I am deeply blessed by this responsibility," Ereiser said. "Monastic life has experienced a great deal of change in the last 50 years. Sisters who entered monastic life in the 1940s and '50s had no idea what monastic life would be like today." She joined St. Joseph in 1984. She has been St. Joseph's subprioress since 2003 and ...

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