I met a brand new group of nuns in the Diocese of Spokane while I was at the Serra Club conference on supporting vocations together.
I may not have the name quite right, but they had beautiful havy and white habits — Sisters of Mercy of the Mother of God, I believe.
Oops.
navy and white habits
This is a topic of another article I am banging out. The revelation came to me as I was kneeling waiting to go to communion. I looked up at the altar and it was completely covered in women. There was a priest, and all females-the altar servers, eucharistic ministers, the organist and lector, every one of them was female.
I felt God speak to my heart letting me know that women have no visible role models in the church because it removed “His nuns”. When I grew up, there was a convent at my church. The nuns taught CCD, did the altar linens, made the altar bread, cleaned the church etc. I have not seen a nun in a church for all of the 10 years I have been a revert(unless it was a special occasion- just this 9/11 we had ONE in habit at a memorial mass. First one in 10 years), and it is disheartening. Young ladies today have no role models but male ones in the church. Is it any wonder they want to be altar servers and then priests? They don’t see the options out there, every day, watching women who devoted their lives to God. Thanks for the ping. I hope your nuns will be visible in the parishes! The young girls need to see them!!