Mirian Therese Winter
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| Hartford resident, Medical Mission Sister, composer, author and musician, founder and faculty member of the Women's Leadership Institute at Hartford Seminary.
Born Gloria Winter in Passaic, New Jersey, Miriam Therese Winter, affectionately known as M.T., became a Medical Mission Sister at the age of seventeen. Author of numerous books on biblical women, women's liturgy, and liturgical music, M.T. Winter is perhaps best known for her recording Joy is Like the Rain (1966) and for "Mass of a Pilgrim People," recorded live at Carnegie Hall in 1967.
M.T. Winter discovered the magic of words and music as a child; by the age of six she had written her first poem and began to learn the piano the following year. After graduating from high school M.T. Winter entered the Medical Mission religious community determined to become a doctor and provide medical care to the world's neediest people."God had other plans for me, however," she said. She earned a Bachelor of Music from Catholic University, a Master's Degree in Religious Education from McMaster Divinity College and a Ph.D. in Liturgical Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary. A professor of liturgy, worship, spirituality, and feminist studies at Hartford Seminary, M.T. Winter advocates the emergence of feminist spirituality and the full liberation of women, which she considers essential to the liberation of all peoples. As a Medical Mission Sister, M.T. Winter has traveled around the world; she has ministered to refugees in camps on the Thai-Cambodian border, and to starving children in Ethiopia. Since 1998, she has ministered to the women at the Niantic State Correctional Institutution. M.T. Winter has shared her scholarship and her music with communities in Botswana, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, and India. Through workshops and lectures, in prayer and in song, she addresses issues of justice and gender, peace and reconciliation, global inequality, and personal piety. In addition, she has performed her own music, in concerts in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and across the United States. M.T. Winter received honorary doctorates from Albertus Magnus and St. Joseph's Colleges. She has been included on ASCAP's Popular Awards List 1968, and has received awards for several of her books, including WomanWisdom and WomanWitness . In 2001, she published Out of the Depths: The Story of Ludmilla Javorova, Ordained Roman Catholic Priest , which explores the calling of women to the priesthood. | |||||||||
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