Sister Marcine Klocko, SSCM has spent nearly 40 years in religious life, as a Sister of Saint Cyril and Methodius and for an interval as a Sister of St Mary of Namur.  While her service as a teacher took her to schools in Pennsylvania and update New York, she has lived and worked in South Carolina for decades.

Sister Marcine taught as St. Jude High School in Sumter, Cardinal Newman School in Columbia, and served an assistant principal at Blessed Sacrament in Charleston. After work hours, she offered service as bookkeeper for St. John’s School, North Charleston, and Charleston Catholic School for several years.  Since 2013, she has been codirector of the outreach ministry at St. Francis Center at St. Helena Island and has played a pivotal role in dealing with home repairs for the elderly poor and restoration of Bethlehem Baptist Church, a small African American parish. Prior to 2013, she served for six years as treasurer for two not-for-profit corporate elder care facilities operated by the SSCM sisters.

Sister Marcine has degrees in history, education, and religion.  An interesting highlight of her varied life is the fact that she spent a portion of her non-convent adult life as an entrepreneur – first, owning and operating a A-1 Cleaning Company in Columbia and then the Charleston Candy Company, which she ran from offices in West Ashley Charleston.  During those years she was a lay Associate of the Sisters of Saints Cyril ad Methodius.

One of Sister Marcine’s beloved images is the magnolia, which is a symbol of nobility, good fortune, and stability.  A frequent retreatant at Mepkin Abbey, Sister Marcine has enjoyed the contemplative rhythm of their monastic, life and the magnificent gardens – which, of course, include not only abundant live oaks and azaleas but also magnolias.