{"id":4952,"date":"2006-07-12T09:46:40","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T14:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2006\/07\/12\/youre-mine-now\/"},"modified":"2006-07-12T09:46:40","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T14:46:40","slug":"youre-mine-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2006\/07\/youre-mine-now\/","title":{"rendered":"You're mine now"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a article on some cloistered contemplative Poor Claire nuns<\/a> participating in the enrichment program at St. Bonaventure.<\/p>\n

…"There’s a sense of mystery about their life," noted Sister Roberta McKelvie, a Bernardine Franciscan nun who coordinates the program, which is in its sixth year. "They’re ordinary women who’ve got an extraordinary vocation." <\/p>\n

…Some of the sisters simply enjoy being able to roam the campus grounds and to chitchat in the dining hall, without having household chores hanging over their heads.<\/p>\n

Yet many of the nuns also indicated that they already were missing the normalcy of their cloistered communal living.<\/p>\n

Instead of confining them, the cloister represents a kind of spiritual freedom.<\/p>\n

More than anything, Sister Mary Francis Hone wanted to follow the example of St. Francis of Assisi.<\/p>\n

"I felt I could do more for the world in the cloister or as a Poor Clare than I could in any other form of life," said Hone, who is from Jamaica Plain, Mass. <\/p>\n

… Crosby came to Poor Clares by way of another group of nuns that is not cloistered, as did Sister Madge Karecki of Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

For years, Karecki served as a missionary in South Africa, teaching at a university. She also did diocesan work in the United States.<\/p>\n

While studying at St. Bonaventure one summer, she stumbled upon some of the writings of St. Clare and became drawn to the contemplative order.<\/p>\n

"I just couldn’t resist anymore," she said. "It is a letting go at a different level. I always knew it was prayer that was at the heart of everything."<\/p>\n

Sister Francis Vass, who entered a Poor Clare monastery in Delray Beach, Fla., 37 years ago, felt called soon after she was baptized a Catholic as a teenager.<\/p>\n

"It was like God said, "You’re mine now,’ " Vass recalled. "You don’t think of what you’re giving up; you don’t think of family feelings; you just think of where you’re being drawn." <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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