Before joining the parishes on MDI as Lay Pastoral Care Associate, Maribeth most recently served a chaplain with Visiting Nurse and Hospice of Fairfield County (CT), where she visited patients in their homes and guided several bereavement groups in person or via Zoom. She earned her Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School in 2019 following a forty-year career in Publishing, publishing books about music. She completed a summer internship at Waveny Lifecare Network, a long-term care facility for patients living with varying degrees of dementia and cognitive impairment; completed her first unit of Clinical Pastoral Education at Norwalk Hospital, and then embarked on a nine-month Chaplaincy Residency at Bridgeport Hospital, a trauma center in Fairfield County.  

She has a passion for pastoral care, working with the homebound, those living in care facilities, and with the seriously ill, as they deepen their personal relationship with God and live in response to God’s invitation in our lives. Maribeth lives in Norwalk, CT and in Blue Hill, Maine, is married to her husband Greg, has two adult sons and a tri-color rough collie dog named Geordie, plays the piano and the organ, and has been writing poetry.