Sister Sharon entered the Sisters of Notre Dame in Saratoga, California, in 1975 and began teaching at Notre Dame High School in San Jose, California. During novitiate she had the opportunity to study the theology and history of liturgy and realized she had found the subject closest to her heart. While teaching 12 – 14 year olds at Mission Dolores School, a kind pastor invited her to work part-time in liturgy for the parish. This was the source of truly significant experiences in bilingual liturgy, learned from the loving parishioners who were from Mexico and Central America.
She continued to serve in the area of liturgy in parishes in California, and spent several summers studying liturgy at the University of Notre Dame. From 1990 to 1994 she had the heart- and mind-expanding experiences of living at the SNDdeN Generalate in Rome while studying liturgy at the Benedictine University there. Beginning in Fall 1994, Sister Sharon served as professor of liturgy at the Sulpician Seminary in Menlo Park, California.
In January of 2009, she joined the novitiate community in Langata, Kenya, and (much to her surprise) she was invited to teach liturgy to Kenyan and Ugandan seminarians at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa. Upon returning to California, she has served in liturgical ministry at San Carlos Cathedral, Monterey, and occasional instructor in the Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries for the Jesuit University in Santa Clara, California.
