Biography
Sister Laura entered the Congregation on September 18, 2003. She ministered on the Congregation’s Leadership Team, 2021-2026. Prior to that, she was the Director of Spiritual Care at Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago.
Prior to joining the Congregation, Sister Laura had a career in nursing and also ministered as a hospice chaplain in Des Plaines, Illinois, where she helped multiple people deal with end of life issues, something she described as an “extremely personal process without any strict formulaic approach.”
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Sister Laura is featured in the following content on the Sisters of Providence website:
- A new leadership team for the Sisters of Providence
- Allowing for God’s presence: Sisters of Providence hospital chaplains
- Wisdom and the future of religious life
- Vowed for love, mercy and justice
- Sister Laura Parker: a spiritual presence in the world
- Four women profess perpetual vows as Sisters of Providence
- Sister Laura Parker
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