Can Nuns Have Pets?

May 12, 2009

Over the weekend we had great contributions to the post You may be a nun if …. An important question came up about being a Catholic sister or nun and having pets.
Not being able to have a dog is actually the one part of religious life I believe I will never get used to. I [...]

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Nun Photo – Sister Mary Grace, OP

May 11, 2009

Happy Nunday! Today’s Nunday photo reminds me of the countless times I sprained my ankles playing basketball! “Fortunately” I had a coach that wouldn’t take some little sprained ankle as an excuse to not play. He’d load up a big bucket full of ice and snow and make me stick my leg in there until [...]

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You may be a nun if …

May 8, 2009

Kudos to Sister Mary Alternative (an Episcopalian woman considering religious life) for starting this post: “You may be a nun if …” Here are some of her responses that I love!
You may be a nun if …

you see nuns everywhere you go
you see nuns so often that now even your friends are seeing them in [...]

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Not just blessed, but happy

May 7, 2009

Today’s gospel reading is John 13:16-20. I was struck by the following verse because I don’t think I’d ever read or heard it in the Jerusalem Bible translation:
After he had washed the feet of his disciples, Jesus said to them:
‘I tell you most solemnly,
no servant is greater than his master,
no messenger is greater than the [...]

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