A Woman Used by God

Sister Magdala Marie taught many years on the elementary and high school levels and has been vocation and formation director for her congregation as well. She loves to write poetry and short reflection pieces and crossword puzzles.

Sr. Magdala Marie Gilbert, OSP, is an Oblate Sister of Providence. She resides at the Oblate Sisters of Providence Motherhouse in Catonsville, Maryland. She is the director of religious education at the historic Saint Francis Xavier Parish in Baltimore City; the director of the cause of the canonization of their founder, Mother Mary Lange, OSP; and a notary public. She has a bachelor’s degree from Springhill College in Mobile, Alabama; a master’s degree from Towson University, Towson, Maryland; and a professional catechetical certificate from the Archdiocese of Baltimore and a catechist certificate from the Imani Program of the Institute of Black Catholic Studies, Xavier University, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is an active member of the National Black Sisters’ Conference, member of the National Religious Vocation Conference (NRVC) Black Standing Committee, member of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Knights of Peter Claver: Mother Elizabeth Lange Court #323, and past chair of the NRVC Black Religious Standing Committee.