Nun Katherine Weston

Abbess Katherine Weston was brought up in the Episcopal Church and converted to the Orthodox faith in the 1980s, drawn by the beauty of the icons and the music. She has been a nun for 35 years and the superior of the St. Xenia Monastic Community in Indianapolis for most of that time. She was made abbess of the community in 2022. In the 1990s she was active in the fight against present-day slavery and human trafficking, but that led to a concern for the psychological trauma that may persist even after securing freedom. This motivated her to earn a master’s degree in counseling from a local seminary and launch a private counseling practice where she specializes in trauma-informed care. She is a founding member and the President of the Fellowship of St. Moses the Black, as well as being a regular speaker at the Fellowship's annual conference. She has published five books based on these presentations, and is now the general editor of the Fellowship's publishing arm, the Unbroken Circle Press. (http://mosestheblack.org/) In addition to these interests, Abbess Katherine also composes liturgical music for use in the Orthodox Church.