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Sister Rita Clare Yoches: Detroit Mercy Star Basketball Player Pivots to Religious Life...

PURPOSE OF LIFE
"While you are upon earth you are there to do honor and glory to your God in Heaven. You must know Him, love Him, and serve Him in this world, so that you will be happy with Him forever in the next." - Our Lady of the Roses, June 1, 1978

OUT OF THE WORLD
"The road to Heaven, my sisters, is a narrow one and not difficult to follow unless you choose to turn away. Even a short duration in the world will soil your soul. You must not, my sisters, give yourselves to the world in thought or deed or dress. Your example must be as one as Our Lady is dressed--a long habit that reaches to the ground.
     "When you, my children, and sisters, discard a proper attire--dress and habit--you do much destruction to your order, to your vocation, for you no longer are an example of purity and commanding respect. You do not receive respect. You are a scandal to your vocation, my sisters! You must not be obedient to the cry of the serpent. The rule must be followed within the convents. My sisters, you will gain nothing by leaving and going into the world. It is a deception of Satan to destroy your vocation and true purpose as brides of Christ. Come out of the darkness, my sisters!" - St. Theresa, October 2, 1975

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CatholicVote.org reported on December 30, 2024:

By Hannah Hiester

A former Michigan basketball star says she never imagined that religious life was her calling, but one homily and her formation at the University of Detroit Mercy changed the course of her life toward a vocation of faith and service to God.

Sister Rita Clare Yoches, TOR, went to the University of Detroit Mercy in the late 1990s on a full-ride scholarship for basketball, Detroit Catholic reported. She started as a forward, but ended her basketball career as a point guard her senior year.

“[S]he was just outstanding,” her college coach, Anne Rexford, told Detroit Catholic. “She knew all the plays, knew where everyone was supposed to be, was able to get the ball into the post, and was a great leader, obviously.”

Yoches said that during her college years, she never expected that she would become a nun. After graduation, the sports medicine major worked as a strength and conditioning coach at Notre Dame and played on the Detroit Demolition women’s football team.

“I always thought I would be in the world, maybe getting married, but definitely working in the world,” Yoches told Detroit Catholic. “God really broke in and did something I wasn’t expecting.” 

She shared that when she was 23, a homily completely changed her life.

“The homily was 1 Corinthians, 11:27: ‘Anyone who eats and drinks the body and blood of Christ without first discerning himself eats and drinks condemnation on himself. That’s why many among you are sick and dying,’” she recalled. “I was like, ‘That’s me.’ I’ve got a great party life, a great job, I was playing women’s professional football in Detroit for the Detroit Demolition, and I had awesome family and friends, but I was dying on the inside because I wasn’t taking care of my soul.”

She said she was convinced to return to the Sacrament of Confession, slowly transform her life, and “let God back in.”

Yoches made her temporary vows in 2012 and professed her final vows in 2018. She then became a campus minister at Florida State University and eventually moved to a convent in Steubenville, Ohio, in early 2024.

Now, years after her athletic career, Yoches still uses the lessons she learned as an athlete and makes time for sports.

“I want to be all or nothing for God — just like I was in sports — so it doesn’t matter what trial or temptation that I’m up against,” she said. “Whatever suffering is coming at the world or me, I’m going to give everything for other people — for love, or for conversion, for prayer — just for others.”

In November, her alma mater bestowed on her one of its most prestigious awards, the Fr. Norbert Huetter Award. The award was created in 2000 in honor of the priest, who was a Jesuit philosopher and teacher at the university and worked with student-athletes. The award “is presented by the school to live and serve in the mission of St. Ignatius Loyola as ‘men and women for others,’” according to Detroit Catholic.

“I’m grateful to be back, and I’m grateful for my experience here,” Yoches said. “I definitely feel like the 10 lepers in the Scripture: one returned to say thank you to God for healing him, and I feel like this is my opportunity to return and say thank you.”

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"Are there not any who care to come forward and dedicate their lives to save Our young children? Please, My children, surely among you, those who hear My voice or will read this written word, can you not give your life to win your reward forever in Heaven? And perhaps also, those you love you can bring with you. So many little souls are crying. They thirst for the knowledge of Jesus and all of Heaven....
     "Will you not, My children, you who are children of the light, come forward and become nuns, nuns with good hearts, with a good foundation of the Faith and the truth, and nourish Our sheep?" - Our Lady, June 18, 1982

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