A memorial Mass for Sister Carol Brouillette, CSJ, was celebrated on March 25 at the Nazareth Living Center chapel in south St. Louis County. Sister Carol died on March 13 at Nazareth Living Center. She was 90 years old.
Sister Carol was born on Sept. 28, 1935, in Vincennes, Indiana, to parents Thomas Leroy and Lucille C. (Egloff) Brouillette. She was received into the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in 1958 as Sister Thomas Christine. She earned a bachelor’s degree in music education from Fontbonne College in 1957 and a master’s in liturgical music from the University of Notre Dame in 1968.
Sister Carol was a teacher in St. Louis for 22 years. She taught at St. Luke the Evangelist School (1960-61) and St. Roch School (1961-62) before teaching music and art at Rosati-Kain High School for 20 years.
In 1983, after a sabbatical at St. Mary-of-the-Woods in Indiana, she became the pastoral associate at St. Benedict Parish in Terre Haute, Indiana. From 1992-2002, she cared for her family in Vincennes. During that time, she also served as the music/liturgy coordinator at St. Lawrence Parish in Lawrenceville, Illinois (1993-96) and Immaculate Conception Parish in Bridgeport, Illinois (1993-2004).
Sister Carol returned to St. Louis in 2004 and served as co-director of St. Joseph Woods, an Earth spirituality center that offered education about care of Earth for adults and children as well as seasonal celebrations.
Upon retiring in 2010, she devoted her time to liturgical piano and organ and healing harp ministry in various residential facilities for seniors. She moved to Nazareth Living Center in 2020, where she lived out her ministry of prayer and presence.
Sister Carol donated her body to science.
