Sister Paula Baker

Ever since she could remember, Sister Paula Baker dreamed of being a nurse and a mother. That goal remained constant until she was a junior in high school and God’s Spirit gently intervened. A few years before this her family had outgrown their tiny east Los Angeles home, which launched a move to a new city, a new home, a new school, and an introduction to the Sisters of the Presentation.  A seed was planted, an invitation was extended, a flame was ignited, and a call was answered.  All things work to good…

A few years later her first ministry assignment brought her back to where she began, the City of Angels and Our Lady of Lourdes parish where her parents grew up, where she was born and baptized, and where her grandmother still lived. Those early years of ministry were the years when the People of God began to move from pre to post Vatican II and Presentation Sisters began to move beyond the classroom into and even beyond the neighborhood to serve God’s people wherever they were and however they were found. All things work to good…
 

Eventually God beckoned Sister Paula from southern California to the northern part of the state to serve in what was then a very rural Morgan Hill. After spending delightful years as elementary principal, she was invited to consider ministry at the local Catholic hospital where she would develop an Outreach Program for new mothers who were vulnerable and marginalized. That evolved into an extensive home visiting ministry, which flowed from accompanying those women through their labor and delivery. All things work to good…

Having completed her six-year term on Congregational Leadership, Sister Paula resides in Morgan Hill where she continues to be involved in the parish and the community. Although she has had to hang up her guitar, she engages in various other activities that enrich and energize her: morning walks, puppy ears and kitty purrs, horses’ neighs and children’s squeals, voices of long-time friends and smiles that radiate, good books and kind deeds. So much to remind her every day of the words of Meister Eckhart: “Every single creature is full of God and is a book about God.”  How wonderful is that! Yes, we do know that all things work to good for those who love God.


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