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Dominican Sr. Mary Anna Euring, right, plays flute with Sr. Miriam Cecile Lenihan on the harp in 2016. Lenihan died last year. (Courtesy of Sr. Mary Anna Euring)
Sr. Mary Anna Euring has been a Sister of St. Dominic of Amityville, New York, for 64 years. Throughout the years, her ministry has included teaching elementary school, creating programs for children and adults with developmental disabilities, being a novice director, directing pastoral care at hospitals, and working with the sick and dying, including AIDS patients at the height of the crisis in the 1980s and 90s in New York City.
A few years ago, Euring went part-time in her job as director of pastoral care at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, New York, to focus on healing from cancer. (She is now in remission.) With her newfound free time, she took a class in Asian brush painting at her local art museum and discovered not only an extraordinary talent, but a deep love for art.