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NUNDAY with Sister Erin Colgan, OSB
Sister Erin volunteers as a lawyer at East River Legal Services (Elisha Page / Argus Leader)
Sister Erin Colgan had a great plan … be a teacher and get married and have kids.
Guess what?
She’s now a nun with the Benedictine Sisters of Yankton in South Dakota. To boot, she’s also become a lawyer!
Sister Erin had met a Benedictine nun while teaching a confirmation class.
Colgan had started attending retreats offered by the Benedictine centers then. She vividly recalls one at the convent at Norfolk where a sister said, “When I came here, it felt like home.” In her head, Colgan said, “You are absolutely nuts.”
“Then I came to Yankton, and at the end of that week, it was, yeah, this is home,” Colgan said.
Read more about Sister Erin in the Argus Leader newspaper, “Sister Erin makes mark in courtroom: Benedictine nun follows circuitous vocational journey” (February 28, 2011) by Jill Callison.
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I love Sr. Erin’s comment: “Are you nuts???” In my experience, the things that I reject most heartily often turn out to be the things I wind up embracing. Weird.
I think she addresses a question that’s come up in the chat room, too: the idea that if you’re a nun, you can’t be anything else! Of course you can! And Sr. Erin is one good example of using a secular profession in the service of her religious profession!