Sister Patricia Marie Mulpeters, PBVM

October 25, 2018
 
Presentation Sister Patricia Marie Mulpeters, a former President of the Congregation, died on October 9 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. She was a Sister of the Presentation for 73 years and 93 years old.
 
Born in San Francisco, Sister Patricia entered the Sisters of the Presentation after graduation from UC, Berkeley and began a 20-year term on the faculty of their Presentation High School in San Francisco continuing studies in summer at The Catholic University of America and Duchesne University. Sister Patricia served for 18 years as head of several administrative departments for the Diocese of San Jose including vicar for religious. She served as director of the sisters’ Presentation Center in Los Gatos until 2006.
 
In a statement, the sisters’ quoted Sister Patricia as having said that as a Presentation Sister “I am profoundly grateful to God for the ongoing opportunity to grow in closeness to Jesus, to serve God’s people with whatever gifts I have, to be in a community of faith-filled zealous women, and to have fun doing it.”
 
In 2011, Sister Patricia Marie moved to the Presentation Motherhouse and since that time had been engaged in the ministry of prayer and visiting the resident sick.
 
A funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 13 at the Presentation Motherhouse with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma.
 
Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Presentation Development Office, 281 Masonic Ave., San Francisco 94118.