A Nun's Life Ministry

Sister Laura Nettles, FSPA

June 9, 2020

There needs to be a balance in navigating the roles of daughter and Catholic sister. Community supports that balance and encourages me to take time for myself yet pushes me when I need it. Parents can be at ease knowing their children can still be their children and be sisters.

Sister Paulette Skiba, BVM

June 4, 2020

“I didn’t want to just do this for one year or two years, I wanted it to be my life.”

Sister Jane Riha, OSF

May 15, 2020

A vocation is a gift of God, a gift for one’s journey of life and a gift for others. As a young teenage girl, I was attracted to my particular community by how the Sisters gave witness. They were joyful, prayerful, relational women, clearly at ease with people.

How did you know what community to choose?

March 9, 2020

In honor of Catholic Sisters Week, we present this #Nunday video with Sister Shannon Fox, SSJ-TOSF. Listen and learn how she used the phone book to find her congregation and the gift of joy she discovered in making that call!

Sisters working to confront structures of oppression

Blog Published: November 7, 2018

Any pastoral plan is a political plan, a "politics of the Gospel" where we put the poor or those whose lives are threatened at the center of attention.

Sisters go to ends of the earth to share Jesus

Blog Published: October 8, 2018

At first profession, we are commissioned through our superior to "live your life with courage…take to all the world a message of peace."

AS092 Ask Sister – call and dread in discernment, novelist seeks info on real-life nuns, a sister’s ministry to kids with AIDS, cookin’ and cleanin’ nuns

Podcast Recorded: November 17, 2011

AS092 Ask Sister podcast recorded live on November 17, 2011. Sponsored by aNunsLife.org ministry. Topics include: call and dread in discernment, a novelist seeks info on real-life nuns, ministry to and with children, cooking and cleaning nuns, and more!