Nunday is here and I’ve got another nun photo for you. This one comes from another blogging nun, Sister Hildegard Magdalen Pleva, OSsR, who is the Vocation Director for the Redemptoristine Nuns at Mother of Perpetual Help Monastery in Esopus, New York. I feel a spiritual kinship with Sister Hildegard because my own IHM charism comes out of the Redemptorist tradition — our co-Founder, Father Louis Florent Gillet, was a Redemptorist priest.
Sister Hildegard is the blogger behind Contemplative Horizon, “Reflections of a female monastic concerning prayer, religious life, daily experience, and the contemplative way in the tradition of Redemptoristine Nuns” (a link can also be found on my Blogs by Catholic Nuns page). Sister Hildegard sent me this photo of herself with her grandbaby Nicholas. Yes, I said grandbaby. Sister Hildegard is a mother and grandmother who entered the Redemptoristines at the age of 55. She is a real Catholic nun and a “Sister Mom”. In this picture, Sister Hildegard holds her first grandson Nicholas when he was about 5 months of age.
Be sure to check out Sister Hildegard’s blog which also has lots of great photos from her monastery.
See all “Monday is Nunday” series of Catholic sister and nun photos.
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What a great picture! I’ll definitely check out her blog, too.
Thanks, Julie. Nicholas will love seeing this when he gets a bit older. It certainly is another life of mothering when you become a grandmother. Now Nicholas is four and a half and has real conversations with me on the phone about pre-K and the antics of his litle brother. Thanks also for adding realism, breath and depth to the image of consecrated women. Sr. Hildegard, OSsR
What a cute picture. It certainly does depict a dimension of religious life few think about – the nun, or sister, as a nurturing grandmother. Iconoclastic!
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I love this picture. It reminds me of one with me and my nephew Jared when he was baptized. I had on a fuzzy fleece sweatshirt and he was nestled in there perfectly!
Thanks for posting this touching picture. I am a faithful reader of Sr. Hildegard’s blog and, as a grandmother to little ones myself, it is good to see her in this moment of quiet joy and bonding.
Shalom from Jerusalem.