hildegard pleva

NUNDAY is usually Monday unless we have a holy intervention — like a nun becoming an official saint and Doctor of the Church! Our own Sister Hildegard Pleva, OSsR, writes about her namesake this day. Visit her community at the Redemptoristine Nuns of New York.

A Nun’s Life is delighted to be joined today by guest blogger Sister Hildegard Pleva, OSsR, of the Redemptoristine Nuns and the blog Contemplative Horizon.

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal co-founded the Order of the Visitation with Saint Francis de Sales in the 17th century. The founders sought to create a community of women drawn to religious life some of whom might not be acceptable to other orders due to age and circumstance but desiring the discipline of the monastic lifestyle.

“There is a tradition of using beads or knots to aid in a prayer of repetition, like a mantra, to assist a person in their effort to touch the power beyond themselves,” said Sister Hildegard Pleva….