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Nuns prayerfully popping popcorn
It seems only fitting that we should blog about these nuns after having been at the movie theatre to see The Mighty Macs.
Sister Lucia Anne Le, OSB, Popcorn Master at Prayerfully Popped
The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have just launched a popcorn ministry: “Prayerfully Popped – Corn From the Cloister”. They have a fantastic website where you can learn about this new ministry … and order some popcorn! Visit prayerfullypopped.com.
The popcorn production will take place near the Tucson, Arizona, monastery, one of three monasteries of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. The other monasteries are in Clyde, Missouri, and in Dayton, Wyoming.
So why popcorn and why a monastery? Well, the sisters, like many religious congregations and people across the U.S. have to deal with these tough economic times. The sisters wanted to find a new form of ministry that would be in keeping with their life and spirituality and also bring in some income. So they reached out to University of Arizona Eller College of Management students asking if the students could take on the monastery as a class project.
With the help of the instructor and a Phoenix-based consulting organization, the nuns and the students did just that!
“We never really have considered going into the popcorn business,” Prioress General Sister Patricia Nyquist, OSB, says. “We are contemplative so our ministries have been in-house.… But the more we heard, we thought, this could be fun, and it certainly opens up a whole new venue of outreach for us.”
“It’s probably one of the most unusual (business ventures) because it’s not overtly religious,” Sister Joan Ridley, OSB, says. “But it does have the name ‘Prayerfully Popped.’”
“Everything we do we try to do prayerfully,” adds Sister Ramona Varela, the prioress of the Tucson monastery, explaining that working prayerfully means that you are singularly focused on the task at hand, much as you are when you pray. Christ is in our hearts so no matter what we do it’s all centered on a life of adoration and worship,” she says. (source: Cathalena E. Burch for the Arizona Daily Star, September 4, 2011)
Visit Prayerfully Popped at PrayerfullyPopped.com or call 800-939-8323. Be sure to check out flavors like pumpkin pie and rocky road!
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O for Pete’s sake! It was Srs Julie and Max popping corn! It registered as a 6.7 earthquake here.
LOL, Barbara!
What a wonderful business venture! I checked out their web site. I will be buying some of the “decadent” popcorn in October
Yum!