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Mary Elizabeth Kloska

 528 Cedar St.

Elkhart, IN 46514

www.marykloskafiat.com

marykloska@yahoo.com

 

Language Skills: advanced Russian and Polish, intermediate Spanish, intermediate Latin, intermediate-low Italian, intermediate-low varying Slavic languages

EDUCATION

BA in Theology (concentrated in Philosophy, Russian and Italian studies as well).

University of Notre Dame 

Notre Dame, IN

 

T.h.D. student at Pontifex University (presently finishing up my dissertation on “Littleness, Spousal Love and Fiat as the Instruments Jesus used in Enduring the Cross and the Means of a Soul Uniting with Him in Crucified Love.”)

 

*Certified Practitioner in Art Therapy

*Certified in CPR/AED and Bloodborne Pathogens

*I have published 8 books, including one on the spiritual formation of children. 

Work Experience

Preemie Twins Infant Night Nanny for Gebhart Family

Wabash, Indiana

January, 2024-Present

Responsibilities:

•               This family had 4 children under 7 when they gave birth to preemie infant twins -growing their family to 6 children under 7. Although the parents are very present in the home, they needed extra support several nights a week caring for the babies. Being in the 4lb range they took a very long time to coax to eat. I help them 3-4 nights a week for almost 13 hours a night, helping to keep them dry, fed, happy, sleeping and somewhat scheduled. I also cleaned prepared and cleaned bottles.

 

Part Time Infant Nanny for Vandewielle Family

South Bend, Indiana

January, 2023-October, 2023

Responsibilities:

•               This family had one infant who I cared for 1-3 days a week depending on the need. The dad was a fireman who worked 24-hour shifts and the mom was a nurse working long days. I worked one to three 10-11 hour days a week to care for their baby when their schedules overlapped. I began when the baby was 3 months old and continued until she turned 1-year-old and they put her in daycare.

 

Full Time Weekend Mather Family Nanny/House Manager

Hinsdale, IL –Winnetka, IL

January, 2022- January, 2024

Responsibilities:

•               This was a family who had four young children under the age of 5 when I started. I worked Thurs/Fri-Sun/Mon to help support Mom and other household staff in caring for the children, following routines, preparing meals, doing light laundry and pick-up in the house. We enjoyed playing together, doing art and music, cooking, reading and time spent outside. The parent was a widow and had a very full schedule and so it was my responsibility to keep the house running and the children happy and well cared for. I often carried for several other children during my shift (children of relatives or friends who would  visit). At times I counted 10-15 young children who I was watching in the playroom with me. I also had full charge of the children when their Mom traveled for longer periods of time and  spent weeks down at their home in Sea Island, Georgia as well.

 

Kupke Family Nanny

Goshen, IN

August, 2021 –January, 2022

Responsibilities:

•               This was a family with four young boys (12, 10, 8 and 5) whose father died of cancer. I worked 40 hours a week –mostly evenings and overnights on weekends –to help support the Mom. I cooked, baked, cleaned, did laundry, played sports, read, did art, music, helped with homework, organized the house and simply spent time together.


Part-time (Bilderback/Soetaert) Family Nanny

Mishawaka, IN

October, 2021 –December, 2021

Responsibilities:

•               This was a family with twin infant girls. I worked 28 hours a week taking care of the babies while their parents worked. This was a temporary position helping fill in while they waited for a daycare option to open up. I fed, dressed, played with, changed diapers, sang and comforted babies doing everything needed for them during the time I was there. I also did light housekeeping such as cleaning/preparing bottles, and helping folding/organizing clothes. When their two-year-old sister was at home from daycare I also played with her.

 

Stavole Family Nanny

South Bend, IN

August, 2020 –August, 2021

Responsibilities:

•               This was a family with a 14-month-old when I started, and with a baby sister added after two months. I took care of both children full-time, including dressing, feeding, sleep schedules, reading, crafts, music, playing and enjoying long walks to the park. I also helped with kitchen dishes and laundry. 

 

Miller Family Night Nanny for Infant Twins

Goshen, IN

December, 2019-July 2020

Responsibilities:

•             I cared for infant twins for 9-10 hours during the night hours as needed. I made formula, fed, diapered and rocked them and helped them to sleep.  I also have helped them during the day when they were too sick for day care or when their day care was closed -helping full time during Co-Vid 19.

 

Downey Family Nanny

Granger, IN

September, 2019 (with occasional help to the present)

Responsibilities:

•             This is a family with 8 children between the ages of 13 and 18 months. The mother homeschools. I work one morning a week primarily helping with the three youngest children (5, 3 and 18 months). I do simple pre-school papers, reading, crafts, baking, music, playing and long walks outside. I also spend time on occasion with the older children doing crafts or playing (sometimes teaching) guitar.

 

Kloska Family Nanny

Bristol, IN

September, 2019 –March, 2020

Responsibilities:

•             This is a family with 10 children between the ages of 15 and 5 months. The mother homeschools. I work two mornings a week primarily helping with the three youngest children (3, 2 and 5 months). I do simple pre-school papers, reading, crafts, music, playing and enjoying long walks to the park. I also help the older children, on occasion, with their schoolwork.

 

Benoit Family Nanny (with both natural and foster children)

Niles, MI

September, 2019 –March, 2020

Responsibilities:

•             At times I helped them full time and other times  I worked only 1-2 10 hour days caring for their three children (who were 5, 2.5 and 8 months old). I helped to homeschool the oldest boy and provide pre-school activities for the 2.5 year-old-old girl. I also homeschooled their foster children. I did  simple school, crafts, took walks to parks, played, read, light housekeeping and meals. I also cared for their 4-year-old foster child, as well as other foster children when they had a placement.

 

Comeau Family Nanny

Mishawaka, IN

September, 2019 –November, 2019

Responsibilities:

•             I worked 18 hours a week helping with the family's 6 children between the ages of 2-13-years-old. I helped with cleaning, laundry, meals, driving, playing (including crafts), bathing and bedtime routines. The children lost their father to cancer in January of 2019 and I was just a physical, emotional and spiritual support to them and their mother.

 

Night and Day Nanny for Newborn Triplets (Mathew Family)

Chicago, IL (Streeterville area)

August, 2018-July, 2019

Responsibilities:

•             I worked 80 hours a week as a night/morning and then day nanny for newborn triplets. I had care of them alone, providing love and for all of their needs, including rocking, diapering, bathing, feeding, playing with them, etc.; My job also included work such as making all formula (even in advance for all times I wouldn’t be there), cleaning bottles, organizing and laundering clothes/bed sheets/towels, etc, emptying dishwasher and diaper pail, keeping a log of the children’s schedules, diapers and food intake and helping them learn to sleep.

 

St. Joseph’s Children’s Home

East Chicago, IN

March/April 2017

Responsibilities:

·       I volunteered with their abused/abandoned babies.

 

Schmidt Family Night Nanny

Elkhart, IN

6 months

Responsibilities:

·       I spent about 6 months helping a friend with night-care of her adopted newborn twin grandbabies -they were sickly and on heart and breathing monitoring machines. In her 70's she and her husband received full custody of them and were exhausted -so I would come from about 5 until after midnight so she could get some rest.


Family Nanny      

South Bend, IN

Three times over seven years

Responsibilities: 

·       I also was the full-time caregiver (on and off) for  5 young children as their father struggled with cancer 3 times over 7 years. I fully ran their home –food preparation, laundry, driving, school help, everything that their Mom/Dad would have been doing for them. I lived with them (overnight) during this time.

 

Diocesan Hermit of Crucified Love Diocese of Fort Wayne -South Bend

Elkhart, IN

August 2011 to August 2014

Responsibilities:

·       A life of primarily prayer with increased silence/solitude, but including welcoming those seeking spiritual support/counsel, as well as children.

 

Mission Work and Hermit Life -all over the world

Siberia, Russia, Poland, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Israel, England, Ireland, Bosnia, Italy, France, Mexico, the Philippines

August 2003 to August 2011

Responsibilities:

Prisons

troubled teens

homeless

victims of concentration camps

orphans

street children

retreats (for children, women, seminarians, parishes, young people)

conferences and individual counsel for priests and religious sisters

childcare

prayer ministry in areas of violence

spiritual counsel

 prayer meetings

 hosting AA groups and pantomime theater

pro-life work

family formation

pilgrimages

cleaning

rehabilitating street women

deliverance ministry

normal mission upkeep (includes pretty much anything needed from doctoring simple wounds, gardening, cooking, braiding hair, playing sports to 'make-do' plumbing problems) and simply loving those who nobody loved.

Also time was spent studying (and teaching) Theology and Languages.

 

Upendo Children’s Home

Moshi, Tanzania

September –October 2010

Responsibilities:

• Changing clothes/diapers, feeding, playing with, soothing –complete care for infants/toddlers (usually up to 10-15 children at a time, often alone.)

 

St. Joseph’s Hospital for Chronically Ill Children

Capetown, South Africa

November, 2010

Responsibilities:

• Changing clothes/diapers, feeding, playing with, soothing infants/toddlers;

• Organizing closets/clothes, odd cleaning, chores and food preparation with the sisters

 

Open Arms Orphanage for Children

Kumga South Africa                                                                                        

December 2010 –January 2011

Responsibilities:

• Sports, art, playing with, baking, gardening, teaching, personal interaction with all of the children (including outings to the store, plays, movies, etc.,) ages newborn- around 13-years-old.

 

Founder of Catholic Mission -Eastern Siberia

 Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity/ in Diocese of St. Joseph/Irkutsk 

Krasnoyarsk and Kansk, Russia

May 2001 to May 2003

Responsibilities:

My time was spent in a myriad of ways:

simple catechesis

work with youth

retreats

establishing AA meetings

pro-life work

homeless ministry

traveling up to 7 or 8 hours to visit Catholics

The people we served were either themselves or children of those sent to the gulags many years ago. The older babushki simply needed visitors and many children of the streets simply needed love. I returned on a month visa yearly for about 7 years to visit these friends.

 

Volunteer Teacher 6th-8th Grades

St. Anthony’s School 

Robstown, TX

August 2000 to June 2001

Responsibilities:

I taught Math, Science, Literature and Religion to 6th, 7th and 8th Grade students. This was a very poor school in a border town and the classes were small with half of the children I had having learning disabilities and so I was told to 'modify' their work. I was given room and board nearby and paid a small stipend. I also spent the weekends visiting Youth City (a juvenile prison) nearby to teach Sunday School.

 

Volunteer Teacher Youth City Jail (a juvenile prison)              

Robstown, TX

August 2000 to June 2001

Responsibilities:

·       I also spent the weekends visiting Youth City (a juvenile prison) nearby to teach Sunday School.

 

Infant and Toddler Caregiver

Child Abuse Prevention Center -CAPS

Elkhart, IN

September 1993 to December 1998

Responsibilities:

I was in charge of caring for all of the infants and toddlers while their parents were in parenting classes. For the last hour of the session I facilitated a parent/child interaction activity.

 

Wood Stacker

American Millwork Factory  

Elkhart, IN

May 1996 to August 1999

Responsibilities:

I only worked the summers of 1996, 1997, 1998 and briefly 1999 (I did simple accounting/paper work the latter summer in an office). The manual labor was stacking 8'-16' 2x4's and sometimes grading the wood for molding.

 

Hostess/Waitress

Harry's Restaurant 

Edwardsburg, MI

June 1996 to August 1996

Responsibilities:

•Hostessing and waiting tables

 

Golf Camp Counselor

Notre Dame, IN

University of Notre Dame Golf Camp                                                            

July 1995 to July 1995

Responsibilities:

•I was a camp counselor who had to be on-site to supervise the visiting female campers.

 

Housekeeper, Maid

Holiday Inn 

Elkhart, IN

June 1995 to August 1995

Responsibilities:

 •I cleaned hotel rooms.

 

Merchandiser/Sales

321 Interior Design  

Elkhart, IN

September 1991 to August 1995 -(I continued to work on all of my breaks during my time at Notre Dame as well (1995-1999).)

Responsibilities:  

A small business owner of an Interior Design store hired me to come in after school, weekends and breaks to help run the store for her. I stocked and priced high-end interior decorating items, helped people choose gifts and with simple interior decorating, gift-wrapped, cashier work and simple accounting for her books.

 

CCD Teacher

St. Thomas Parish 

Elkhart, IN

August 1993 to May 1995

Responsibilities:

(The dates may be off) -I developed and taught a Preschool CCD program for young children on Sunday mornings.

 

Corn Detasseler

Elkhart County, IN

June 1993 to August 1993

Responsibilities:

I rode on large machinery and picked tassels from corn.

AWARDS

Elkhart Young Woman of the Year

May 1998

I was nominated by CAPS –Child Abuse Prevention Services (where I worked throughout High School) for this award for being an exceptional example of service.

 

BOOKS                                                                                                                                                                   

 

Mary Elizabeth Kloska. The Holiness of Womanhood St. Louis, MO: En Route Books and Media. Published July, 2020.

Mary Elizabeth Kloska Out of the Darkness St. Louis, MO: En Route Books and Media. Published January, 2021.

Mary Elizabeth Kloska A Heart Frozen in the Wilderness: Reflections of a Siberian Missionary St. Louis, MO: En Route Books and Media. Published May 13, 2021.

Mary Elizabeth Kloska In Our Lady’s Shadow: The Spirituality of Praying for Priests St. Louis, MO: En Route Books and Media. Published March, 2021.

Mary Elizabeth Kloska Mornings with Mary: A Rosary Prayer Book St. Louis, MO: En Route Books and Media. Published September 14, 2021.

Mary Elizabeth Kloska Raising Children of the Cross: The Spiritual Formation of Children St. Louis, MO: En Route Books and Media. Published November, 2021.

Mary Elizabeth Kloska House of Gold: A Marian Consecration to the Immaculate and Sorrowful Infant Heart of Mary St. Louis, MO: En Route Books and Media. Published May 31, 2022.

Mary Elizabeth Kloska Consumed by Love: A Missionary Handbook for Priestly and Lay Formation St. Louis, MO: En Route Books and Media. Published July, 2023.

 

Founder and President of the Fiat Foundation _                                                                                                                                                                           

The ‘Fiat Foundation’ is a 501(c)3 whose mission is to provide funding for free Catholic materials to those physically or spiritually most in need both here in the US and abroad. The primary focus is on helping priests, religious, foreign missions and persecuted Christians through providing free copies of Mary Kloska’s books, art, music, retreats and catechetical materials. Presently the Fiat Foundation is serving missions in over 25 countries. For more information please see: https://www.marykloskafiat.com/donations-to-mary-s-ministry

Mary has served as Founder and President from 2022-Present.

 

Founder and Director of Children of the Cross Prayer Groups                                                                                                                                                                          

This consists of a few small groups in the US, 800 children in Pakistan, several groups in Afghanistan, and thousands of children in Nigeria, the Cameroon, Uganda and Ethiopia. For more information please see: https://www.marykloskafiat.com/children-of-the-cross-prayer-groups

Mary has served as Founder and Director from 2021-Present.

 

Retreat Master______________________________________________________________

The Holiness of Womanhood Retreat -given in Russian in Kansk, Siberia -2003

The Holiness of Womanhood Retreat -given in Russian in Achinsk, Siberia -2007

The Holiness of Womanhood Retreat -given in Polish in Krzydlina Mala, Poland -2006

The Holiness of Womanhood Retreat -given in English -Indiana, US -2006

The Holiness of Womanhood Retreat -given in English -Indiana, US -2020

Out of the Darkness Retreat -given in English -Indiana, US -2021

In Our Lady’s Shadow: the Spirituality of Praying for Priests –Presentation given in English -Indiana, US -2021

In Our Lady’s Shadow: the Spirituality of Praying for Priests –Presentation Spanish version -Indiana, US -2021

 

Host of Weekly WCAT RADIO Podcast The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love __________________

This is a weekly podcast about the interior spiritual life -it presently consists of 137 programs.

https://wcatradio.com/heartoffiatcrucifiedlove/


Interviews________________________________________________________________________

Mary Kloska has been involved in over 30 interviews for WCAT radio -both as a host and as a guest. Most can be found here: https://www.marykloskafiat.com/interviews

 

Other Ministries___________________________________________________________________

Iconographer and owner of Artist Shop www.marykloskafiat.threadless.com -2020

Musician and publisher of ‘Fiat’ CD (available on all music platforms) -2020

Volunteer with Catholic Charities aiding in Ukrainian Refugee Assistance -2023

Additional Information

My name is Mary. I am 47 years old and was raised in a huge Polish family (12 brothers and sisters) along with a lot of foster babies and other needy people in and out of the house. I presently have 70+ nieces and nephews, most of whom live close to our family ‘headquarters’, so children are simply part of my life. In addition to family and plenty of outside babysitting, I worked for 5 years at Child Abuse Prevention Services supervising infants and toddlers and helping in child/parent interaction. They nominated me for our city’s ‘Young Woman of the Year.’ I’ve lived a very unique life. Upon graduating from Notre Dame in 1999 I spent almost 20 years in the missions serving the poor (including orphanages) as well as praying as a consecrated hermit all over the world –Siberia, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Philippines, Mexico, the Holy Land and all over Europe as well. These included Upendo Children's Home, Moshi Tanzania; St. Joseph's Hospital, Capetown South Africa; Open Arms, Kumga South Africa; orphanages in Poland and Russia and lots and lots of street children (including those living the trash dumps of 'Smoky Mountain' in the Philippines). I also spent quite some time caring for my friend's small babies/children in Poland.

Infants and toddlers are my specialty, although I have experience with children of all ages, cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds. I volunteer taught 6th, 7th and 8th grade for one year in South Texas, including children with disabilities. I developed and taught a Pre-school CCD program at a church as well as taught Sunday school to troubled teens at a juvenile prison. I also was the full-time caregiver (on and off) of my brother's 5 young children as he struggled with cancer 3 times over 7 years. And I spent about 6 months helping a friend with night-care of her adopted newborn twin grandbabies -they were sickly and on heart and breathing monitoring machines. I have also volunteered at a Home for Abandoned Babies and Children. I spent a year working 80 hours a week as a night and day nanny for newborn triplets. I have taken care of three sets of twins and helped many large families. My entire life has been with small children.

I am a very clean person (which made the missions difficult at times) and prefer organization, although I am flexible, patient and laid-back, especially with children. Love was always my rule. I speak Russian and Polish pretty well after spending 2 years in Eastern Siberia and many years back and forth from Poland. I studied Italian at Notre Dame and so when I find myself in Italian company I usually understand. I understand Spanish and could pick it up again rather quickly. Languages come and go for me –when I lived in Africa I picked up the Bantu languages and Swahili. When I lived with the French I was able to communicate. And pretty much any Slavic language I understand. I love to paint, especially icons. I have my own Artist Shop. I love to cook and bake, although I rarely follow recipes exactly. Because good doctors and medicines were rarely available all of those years, I learned quite a bit about natural remedies and herbs. I garden, play guitar and always have a book. I write (especially on spiritual topics or about the experiences I've encountered) –and I have published eight books. I have one music CD published and host a weekly radio/podcast program. And I love to be outside, especially exercising –this time I use to really think and pray. My heart is very sensitive, especially to anyone suffering. These are all parts of my life that I share with the children around me (crafts, reading, singing, outdoors, baking, etc.) My approach with children tends to be the attachment parenting style –babies cry because they need something. I don’t ever remember not being able to calm a crying child. In fact, sometimes parents would give me their children when they were upset because ‘Aunt Mary’ has ‘her way.’ 




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