Mother of God Monastery
110  28th Ave. SE ~  Watertown,  SD  57201
Phone: 605-882-6600  Fax: 605-882-6658
monastery@dailypost.com

COMMUNITY

SISTER IDA HERICKS

Sister Ida is the daughter of the late Catherine and Joseph Hericks. As a native of Hoven, SD she attended the parochial school where she experienced the sisters as model teachers and community leaders. She speaks of her call as coming to her at a very early age and began to talking about it in third grade. She said, “I was very excited  and told everyone until my teenage years when I heard my friends talking about other plans and then I kept quiet. During a retreat as a junior at Mount Marty I asked permission to enter the convent. I desired to become a nurse but teachers were needed so I was asked to pursue a teaching degree. During the  fourteen years of teaching I came to realize that striving for holiness needed to come from the heart, a step beyond knowing how to become holy. When volunteers for the missions were asked for, I volunteered and was asked to go to Guatemala. There the deep faith of the people in the midst of poverty and oppression has spoken to me and has shaped my life."