New Nuns Traditional and Younger

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"NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A handful of Roman Catholic convents are contradicting the decades-long slide in the number of women choosing to devote their lives to the sisterhood. And at least two of them are doing it by sticking to tradition, including the wearing of habits.

The number of nuns in the U.S. has dropped dramatically over the last several decades as more women in religious life approach retirement and are not replaced with younger sisters.

But the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville have remained an exception for years. The order has 27 postulants entering the convent this fall, likely the largest group of new nuns in training in the U.S., according to religious scholars.

Sisters at St. Cecilia’s and other thriving U.S. orders typically are younger, which makes them closer in age to potential newcomers. These orders also emphasize traditional practices, like wearing long, flowing black-and-white habits, and educating students."

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My first cousin is a nun in that group. They teach 'em from day one by showing them. For example, when they go to meals, they’re assigned a particular seat. They must eat in that seat until further notice. They must also eat everything on their plate, like it or not. One young nun I talked to (years ago) said she hated liver, and figured out quickly that they served liver every Thursday. So, the next Wednesday night, she waited till everyone was asleep and snuck into the kitchen, and found a big pack of frozen liver thawing out for the next day. She took a Sharpie and wrote “Rancid!” on it and stuck it way in the back of the big freezer and went back to bed. The next morning, the mother superior (or whatever she’s called), gathered all the nuns together and said, “It seems that one of our sisters doesn’t like liver. Will the sister responsible for the missing liver please come see me in my office.” Then, she went to her office. The guilty sister went in and confessed she’d done it. The mother superior asked her why and she said it was because she absolutely hated liver. She smiled and said not to do it again and let her go about her duties. When they went to eat, she had a note on her plate, “Sister, please have TWO servings of liver. Love, Mother.” LOL

Seriously, when my cousin was just starting out, they told my aunt and uncle that they were in the business of making saints. That’s all. It also so happened that an old nun had died (she was in her 90’s!). They went into the basement of the building (an old pre-Civil war hospital on top of a hill - beautiful!) and got the vows that old nun had written (they write them out longhand) as a teenage girl, and put them in her hands in the plain wooden coffin as evidence that she had remained faithful to her vows her whole life! What a way to go!
 
And, if you’ll notice, many of the Orders are celebrating the EF Mass and LOTH in latin. Kind of makes my heart warm all over. Perhaps this will end up being a great day after all.
 
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