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Nun Photo – Reporter Nuns in Rome
Monday is NUNDAY! Every Monday A Nun’s Life features YOUR photos of nuns and your story in relation to those nuns. Last week we missed Nunday because we had a special guest blogger for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception — and as all good Catholics know, Holy Days of Obligation always trump the ordinary day!
Today we’ve got a great photograph from Raphael Borja, a Catholic and university student from Canada doing an exchange semester in Italy. This photo was shot in Rome (Vatican City) on All Souls Day in St. Peter’s Square, shortly after Pope Benedict’s noon address.
Writes Raphael,
“I’ll be the first to admit that I’m sometimes guilty of buying into mainstream media’s depiction of nuns as meek, quiet introverts and ruler-slapping school tyrants. Coming from a culture where men and women of the cloth are increasingly rare (and sometimes even latently taboo), it’s ever-refreshing to see flocks of priests draped in cassocks and sisters donning habits. Furthermore, to be reminded that a sister’s ministry is not always limited to cloistered halls as the stereotype projects, to see an overlooked side as she lives and fulfills her vocation among everyday people in a variety of ways, is nothing short of sweet.”
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(Couldn’t resist. This picture is too precious!)
Great photo. I think the only time I’ve seen nun’s wearing such tradtional habits was actually at the Vatican.
Hi Sister,
Great Blog!
These sisters in the photo are from the schismatic group “Fraternite Notre Dame.”
No kidding?! I had not heard of this group. I checked out the Fraternite Notre Dame website and would have guessed that they could be any Catholic religious order, save for the curious association with the United Nations. I’ll have to learn more about this. Thanks, Rob, for making the connection.
Another Sister Julie — you crack me up!
Their website is not like that of other Catholic religious orders. They make much of their bishop/founder who is, apparently, still alive. They also go to great lengths to justify his status as a bishop. I find it a bit odd.