Last Thursday Sandy and I (and all our faithful friends) managed to move our belongings into a new apartment. We’re still getting used the the space (and continue to unpack…me more than her) and find the abode to be endlessly quirky but somehow quite wonderful. This morning I studied and ate a scone on the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘nuns’
5 April 2008
And now for something completely different
I had a phone interview with a documentary film producer yesterday. She found me as a result of the BUST article a few months back. We talked about Mary’s Virginity and my feelings on female priests. I have to follow up the whole thing with an answer as to how Mary was “concieved without sin”–something [...]
12 February 2008
This Girl: Quietly wonders to herself, “if I become a nun do I have to stop flirting with cute waiters?”
19 January 2008
losing one’s hair on the wedding day
I wish I could express to you how beautiful such moments are.
My my uncle, Fr. Dan, does it justice. Take a moment to listen.
20 November 2007
You’re so vain. You probably think this blog is about you.
Over the summer I spent a week in the hills of New York helping to build a chapel for a Sisters of Life retreat site. It was a beautiful.
At the end of the week I pulled one of the newly first-professed sisters aside. “Sister, I have a VERY important question.” She put [...]
4 October 2007
What is YOUR best habit?
I work in the archives. It is about time I tell you that. It isn’t a secret or anything–although, sometimes archival work feels like secret stuff–but I just hadn’t had the opportunity to mention it.
I get there on time and sit down to check my email. The room is empty but the lights are on. [...]
10 August 2007
“What do you think about the Catholic Church as being the first corporation?” “Well, it’s still around, isn’t it?”
4:32am: Incoming text message. From Elizabeth. Reads: “Bring your swimming suit. Maybe after we’re done we’ll head to the lake.”
5:23am: Alarm sounds. Day begins.
9:28am: arrive at the door of room 411 in a swanky hotel on Wabash. Knocking occurs. No answer. Eventually a hipster walks down the hallway [...]
23 July 2007
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It’s official. My life is progressing.
Sandy and I signed the lease yesterday (after the most arduous process) and I have a job. In two weeks I’ll be moving closer to Chicago and in a month I’ll be starting an assistantship at the library where I’ll be attending school.
There are a thousand things to do between [...]
15 June 2007
“Any lifestyle — religious life, ordained life, single life, married life — can be about loving deeply. It depends on where you feel called, the particular contours of how that love seeks to express itself.”
Sr. Julie Vieira, IHM
I love the use of the word “contours” here. As if we can blanket our own [...]
