Sr. Marie Duffy had it all planned out, she said.
Settled comfortably into her congregation s retirement facility, Camilla Hall, the 87-year-old Immaculate Heart of Mary sister, a former guidance counselor, would embrace the second calling in her life. I can t wait until I can have coffee, have time to pray and not to drive, and just be with God, Duffy said she remembers thinking. She enjoyed a year with friends on the independent living floor.
Then came the pandemic. After that, a fall. And on Sept. 11, 2020, Duffy entered a local hospital, where she had three surgeries on her leg and hip. For five months, she was bed bound.