Sr. Frances White joined our pastoral staff in June 2006. She has been a Sister of St. Joseph and has served in the Springfield Diocese for 45 years.

Having graduated from UMass, Amherst with a degree in physical education in 1961, she taught at Cathedral High School as a lay teacher.  After entering the community, she taught in several parochial schools until 1976.

She received her degree in Urban Pastoral Ministry at Emmanuel College in Boston, and served at Immaculate Conception, Easthampton MA, for four years before ministering to the people of St. John the Evangelist Church in Agawam for 19 years.  She was elected to the Congregational Leadership Team from 1999-2005.  Sr. Fran is presently serving the home-bound, infirmed, elderly, hospitalized and nursing home residents of St. Rose de Lima Church.