Regarding this story on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2010/12/22/131753494/for-these-young-nuns-habits-are-the-new-radical?ps=cprs
Captivating story. It's funny how something that for hundreds of years has been woven into the fabric of most Catholic families, a child who assumes holy orders, seems so radical, almost pathological, today. Lately I've been reading Thomas Merton's book on the hermit desert fathers. I was struck by how revered those hermits were. How they became a destination for pilgrimages and lay people seeking the answers to profound questions. For many reasons, not all of them bad, I think we've lost our orientation towards sage wisdom. I would hope we can appreciate those who step out of the rat-race and cast their gaze upon something else. I suspect there’s a lesson in their lives for us all.
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