I am always delighted to visit with Sister Susan Rose (albeit virtually) of the blog Musings of a Discerning Woman and this morning was no exception. On July 18 Susan Rose posted a nun quiz, taken from the 20 year old humor book, The Nun Book by Tom Carey.
I encourage you to check out her blog and, of course, to take the quiz. The quiz is good for a laugh. You’ll be happy to know that I just barely make it for having a vocation with a whopping 18 for my quiz score. I think it was the Mohawk with streaks of purple, green and pink that brought my score down. Susan Rose, my holy friend, has a DEFINITE vocation with a score of 26. And because she is such a good nun, she has a couple great links at the end of her post for folks who are looking for discernment and vocation resources.
Thanks, Susan Rose, for making my day! 
"She wrote the way she lived: on the fly, without retrospect, always on the way, climbing higher."
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Glad you enjoyed it!
I think my high score was due to the fact that now that I’m growing my hair out, I can wear it in a bun again!
Cute quiz. I got a 24 and I’m NOT a sister. Oh, well.
Wow, that was a fun quiz! And I scored 25!
I just started reading your blog a few days ago, and I really like it, by the way!
Julie,
It’s really hard to score below a 15, which appears to be the cutoff for having a vocation….Even if you answer A to all the questions, you get 11, so just a couple of C’s put you over the top… I got 20, myself.
LOL this was fun. I scored 27 *big grin* I think lol. I couldnt be a Nun though, I’m too opinionated LOL! That’s the Aussie in me coming out.
Peace and blessings:)
Marie
I got a 26, but only because I had to take a 0 in some categories. The choices just didn’t fit! Sadly, the polyester skirt and orthopedic shoes fit me to a T. *sigh*
Oh, and being opinionated didn’t stop me (or any of my other sisters!) from joing up. Fortunately, we had many workshops and classes over the years in interpersonal relationships so we wouldn’t skewer each other with out opinions!
Okay, that should be “our” opinions!
I do like the quiz though you guys are right, it is a bit weighted in the direction of vocation and it has some options that don’t fit. And I find it interesting that the book implies that the the profile of a person constructed from the A choices is less nun-material than the C choices. I think we are understanding more and more that God calls who God calls, wearers of orthopedic shoes (Sister Julie, CSSF
)and wearers of cleated, carbon-soled road bike shoes (Sister Julie, IHM … if someone could make a good orthopedic shoe and put a cleat on it for biking, I would so be there!). God is so way more expansive an imaginer than we are. Good quiz — good food for thought!
There was this program on last year called “Joan of Arcadia.” I personally loved it. It was so insightful - especially regarding various complicated issues of faith. Long story short, there was this one character on the show. She was an unmarried, ex-nun in her 20s. She was still very religious/spiritual, albeit a bit cynical about organized religion. She still worked in a “typical” (if you can say that) nun field - ministering to the poor. Anyway she wore totally funky punk clothes with a matching short, spikey haircut and shoes that sound sort of like Sr. Julie’s, the IHM Sr. Julie :-).Maybe that’s the wave of the future!
Who knows, some of those pre-Vatican II nuns appeared a bit Goth.
Oh, here’s a funny story. This one Sister of St. Joseph told me that they used to have to wear this black veil that was kind of pointed in the front. One day she was in an elevator in a department store. A little 4-5 year old black child (probably not too familiar with nuns) gazed at her somewhat puzzled, turned to his mother and said “Look mom, she be a witch.”
deerose
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