Sister Stephanie Gabriel Tracy, a graduate of St. Paul VI Catholic High School in Chantilly, made her perpetual profession of vows with the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary last month at the congregation’s motherhouse in Malvern, Pa. During the ceremony, she professed the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience in the service of the church.
Sister Stephanie Gabriel grew up in Manassas and was a parishioner of All Saints Catholic Church. After graduating from St. Paul VI, she earned a bachelor’s degree in history and communications from Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio in 2003, and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland-College Park in 2004. She served as editorial assistant at the Catholic Herald from 2007 to 2009.
She completed a teaching certification in secondary education at Immaculata University in Pennsylvania in 2016 and is working on a master’s in theology and ministry at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Sister Stephanie currently is serving at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington
