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NNR001 Nun News Roundup
This has been the week of new podcasts for A Nun’s Life. Today we are launching a half-hour show called Nun News Roundup which will be broadcast at noon Central Time (time zone converter).
Nun News Roundup features news stories about Catholic sisters and nuns from this past week. Sister Maxine and I talk about the stories and welcome your comments via our Chat Room at http://anunslife.org/live.
This week’s topics include:
A Nun’s Life Podcast Debut - featuring Praying with the Sisters, NunNews Roundup, and special broadcasts (e.g., Vocation Study)
Widespread Interest in Religious Life Generated by Vatican Inquiries – See the recent essay by Sister Sandra Schneiders in NCR
Franciscan Nuns win Rural Preservation Award – check out the Chicago Tribune article and the Sisters of Saint Francis of Oldenburg, Indiana
Mystery Solving Nuns – New York Times writer Patricia Cohen reviews Sister Pelagia and the Red Rooster by Boris Akunin (Random House) sparking Sister Julie’s wonderment at the size of this genre of books
Catholic nuns boost their brain power through meditation and prayer – Now we know why nuns are such good detectives and mystery-solvers! Check out the article about nun’s extraordinary brain power!
And as an extra incentive (as if spending quality time with two nuns is not incentive enough), we’ll have a free giveaway for one lucky listener. So join us at noon Central Time today!
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Sr. Julie,
Did you get to see the segment on Chicago Tonight regarding the visitation? Here is the link if you are interested:
http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=42,8,8&vid=081709d
Featured are the Sisters of St. Scholastica, where I am an oblate.
Susan
No I missed that, Susan. Thanks for the link — will take a look this morning. How did you feel your Sisters were portrayed?
Hello Sisters Julie and Maxine!
I enjoyed listening to your podcast – you both have a great sense of humor! I have a suggestion for a future podcast, especially since it was so neat having Patrice Tuohy and Brother Paul as guest speakers…
Could you please invite Sr. Eva-Maria Ackerman to come talk on a podcast? If I recall correctly, she’s the spokesperson for the Apostolic Visitation, and I think it would be really cool to hear what she has to say… What are their hopes for this process and for religious life as a whole? What has been the coolest part about meeting so many sisters from so many congregations all over the country? What’s her favorite thing about being a sister? What’s her favorite quote, and why? How can Catholics, with so many different perspectives of the Visitation, act as a unified Body of Christ in this process so that it manifests love and honesty and humility and joyful life? Does she miss her congregation a lot since she’s away a lot? How has she grown spiritually since beginning work with this visitation? I’d love to hear from Mother Clare Millea too, but I don’t know if her contact information is on the visitation’s website.
Is this a conversation you’d be willing to have on anunslife.org? Thanks so much!
Sincerely,
Stephanieeeeeee
I am rereading a beuatiful book, “Catherine of Siena: Vision Through a Distant Eye” (1996) by Suzanne Noffke OP (….and sitting in the Puget Sound woods with a glass of wine and a country radio station paying a song about “alligator stew and crawfish pie”).
I highlighed for another reading but did not this time attend particularly to the passage below in my first reading but, in light of all the questions raised by the Visitation and coming doctrinal investigation, I am going back to the book to focus on this passage in Chapter 4 “AWoman and her Church”:
[Noffke writes] different people live different ways with the traditions and assumptions and the linguistic categories they inherit…But none of us escapes dealing with the traditions and assumptions and categories of thought and language we inherit – to a number of which we have become particularly sensitive in today’s Church. What was Catherine’s stance as she lived and worked within the Church of her century? To what extent did she conform to or question the status quo? With what deggree of freedom did she allow her follow her own insights and purposes in a Church and world where layfolk, especially women, were expected to simply obey and follow? How did she respond to the abuse and oppression and conflict that so characterized her season in the Church? Does she offer us any inspiration for living creatively and hopefully in our season in the Church?”
What strikes me, immediately, is the final passage in the Chapter, which I also highlighted:
“We are NOT yet fully and truly Church. We are NOT yet fully and truly ‘Christ on Earth’….[Ours] is not an easy or triumphal spirituality. But if it is indeed the the truth and love of God that we are about, the mission of the Word and the Blood, then we can continue the search together, singing as Catherine saing from the depths of rebellion and schism and human brokenness: ” My soul is jubilantly happy in this grief – because among the thorns I smell the fragrance of the rose about to open!”
Makes me think of the note from the Religious from another country who wrote the other day to say she has prayed and wonders if, deep within this experience, is the Incarnation of the Word for us in the form of suffering holy women.
Sister Noffke’s book is absolutely gorgeous. I am pretty sure I saw it on Amazon. Jean