I entered the convent with my sister, Jeanne. Mother Victor was the Prioress; followed by Sr. Aquinas Weber. This awesome woman sent me out to teach after my novitiate year.

For 13 years I taught junior high, in St. Charles, Dearborn Heights, and Chesaning. I was engaged as a Campus Minister for 25 years — Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), and Michigan State University (Lansing). Fr. Joseph F. Girzone, author of “Joshua: A Parable for Today” hired me as co-director of the Joshua Foundation in New York. There, at his urging, I started writing, authoring 185 books thus far. As a Chaplain for Holy Cross in Lansing, I walked with women in Rehab.

I traveled with a delegation from Washington to work in India with Mother Teresa in the house of the dying and also worked in a Leper colony there. I was invited to China to help promote students coming to the US for college. There, I befriended a top Chinese diplomat, who eventually converted to Catholicism. Today I am her Godmother.

Today, I am an international speaker presenting, and leading retreats and missions. I serve on this board of the Joshua Foundation and on the committee for the Michigan Catholic Conference.

Sister Dorothy Ederer, OP
Dorothy Ederer Kalamazoo Retreat 2025
Sr. Dorothy shares her wisdom and faith while leading a retreat in Kalamazoo, Michigan.