Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Sunday, July 04, 2010

It's very sad


to see a valuable way of life diminishing like this.

Nun shortage forces religious orders to merge

Nuns, in full habits, rosaries clacking and starched wimples rustling, educated me for a good part of my life, taught me to love God and to serve Him, and to love and serve others. Their lives were anything but meaningless - they were filled with the Holy Spirit. I can only offer all of them my good wishes and continued prayers that God's will comes about in religious orders of women...


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