“COVID has been a life changer, showing us everything we took for granted,” Sister Sarto said. Patrick Day Parade, Sharon Blentlinger, Immaculate Conception principal, praised her as “the proverbial ‘pot of gold’ at the end of the rainbow.” In 2009, when Sister Sarto was named grand marshal of Fort Smith’s St. Before moving to McAuley Convent in 2014, she was the librarian at Fort Smith’s Immaculate Conception School from 1979 to 2014, and also at Trinity Junior High School from 1979 to 1994. Until the pandemic, Sister Sarto was a pastoral minister at Mercy Crest, a sponsored ministry of the Sisters of Mercy, and plans to continue her service there.
Sisters Mary Sarto Gaffney and Dorothy Ann Plafcan, RSM, will move to Mercy Crest, the independent and assisted living center adjacent to the convent. Three of the remaining five sisters will move to Catherine’s Residence, the Sisters of Mercy retirement facility in St. The convent was once home for 27 retired sisters, some who served in Arkansas and others who served in the region. The sisters living at McAuley Convent now have been vaccinated and will move to their new homes the week of March 22. The decision to close was made last year by the leaders of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, South Central, but was put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The remaining five Sisters of Mercy living in McAuley Convent in Baring pray in the chapel March 3.īARLING - McAuley Convent, which has been a retirement residence for the Sisters of Mercy since 1995, will close in late March.
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