[3] She joined the Benedictine Abbey St. Hildegard in Eibingen in 1976, assumed the religious name Clementia (kindness) and made her temporary vows on her 25th birthday, 25 April 1979.

[1] At the abbey, she worked first as an organist and member of the Choralschola, then took care of the elderly and sick in the infirmary.

[3][4] As the abbess, she regularly led the annual procession on the feast of Hildegard on 17 September with her shrine carried through the streets.

[5] She lectured about Hildegard, for example at the Liborifest of the Diocese of Paderborn in the presence of Archbishop Hans-Josef Becker in 2010.

[2] Mother Clementia worked as an editor of the works by Hildegard of Bingen, in new translations from Latin, published by the Beuroner Kunstverlag: The composer Ludger Stühlmeyer dedicated his Quatre pièces pour Orgue:Prélude romantique, Caprice expressionique, Hymne impressionique, Fugue baroque in 2001 to her, "Äbtissin Clementia zugeeignet" (dedicated to Abbess Clementia).