{"id":6968,"date":"2004-06-27T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2004-06-27T21:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/06\/27\/carmelite-nun-enters-life-in-monastery\/"},"modified":"2004-06-27T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2004-06-27T21:12:54","slug":"carmelite-nun-enters-life-in-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/06\/carmelite-nun-enters-life-in-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmelite nun enters life in monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">TRAVERSE CITY &#8211; Rita Aune gave up her name, her family and friends, her possessions<br \/>\nand the world.<br \/>\nShe will live the rest of her life as Sister Perpetua Marie of the Immaculate<br \/>\nConception within the Carmelite Monastery overlooking Traverse City.<br \/>\nShe has vowed to never leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Solemn vows bind you irrevocably,&#8221; Sister Perpetua, 24, said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the former Kankakee, Ill. resident became one of seven cloistered<br \/>\nRoman Catholic sisters here. She&#8217;s the second in 10 years to do so and<br \/>\nis the youngest of its inhabitants. The oldest is the monastery&#8217;s founder,<br \/>\nMother Teresa Margaret, 92.<br \/>\nThe 75 people who attended her solemn vows could barely see her. She stood<br \/>\nor knelt in the sisters&#8217; enclosure behind a grate decorated with a garland<br \/>\nof white flowers as priests performed the ceremony. <\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">The whole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.record-eagle.com\/2004\/jun\/27nun.htm\">article<\/a> is worth reading.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">And here is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newbritainherald.com\/site\/news.cfm?newsid=12114501&#038;BRD=1641&#038;PAG=461&#038;dept_id=10110&#038;rfi=6\">article<\/a> of three Sisters of the Immaculate Conception who have<br \/>\nspent 75 years in religious life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRAVERSE CITY &#8211; Rita Aune gave up her name, her family and friends, her possessions and the world. She will live the rest of her life as Sister Perpetua Marie&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}