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Jessie Pagna and Sister Joan

Jessica Pagan, the first participant in the Joan Chittister Writer-in-Residence Program, was with us for a month, June 29—July 28. Jessie had just completed the first year of her Masters in Theological Studies at Vanderbilt Divinity School when she arrived. While living at Mount Saint Benedict Monastery she concentrated on a writing project of her own design, which she hopes to develop into her Masters thesis. She drew on Sister Joan’s body of work in her writing.