Get serious…
About religious life.
That would be my advice to anyone seriously considering entering a convent or monastery.
A silly news story out of Italy (from the pazzi Neapolitan area no less), concerns a priest who is sponsoring a beauty pageant for nuns. He claims the group of sisters he works with suggested the idea - to demonstrate that the vocation is not just for ugly women. WTF? I know! Stupid nun’s story here. (I’m sure the story is an internet hoax: Despite that, the story dimishes the true, supernatural beauty of the religious vocation and mocks women religious.)
Martyrdom.
Such a frivolous gesture, especially contrasted with continuing horror stories out of India about Hindu extremists going forward with their persecution of Christians. Shouting, “Kill the Christians, and destroy their institutions!” They are attacking Catholic nuns. One nun was just burned alive, and another gang raped, while their priest was beaten unconscious in the district of Bargarth (Orissa). Elsewhere, the Missionaries of Charity have been attacked as well. Read the story here. (These people will protect a cow yet butcher Christians.)
And yet, if the story is true, an Italian priest has nothing better to do than host a beauty pageant for nuns.
UPDATE: The nun beauty pareant was true! - but now it is canceled - story here. The priest is a Passionist!
August 25th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Oh so sad ,It’s heartbreaking the suffering that my brothers ,and sisters in Christ have to endure for Jesus, and his church. How could I even have the nerve to occupy the same heaven as such holy people.
Do you think that this Itallian Priest would hear my confession? I’ve still got my list. He’s probably too busy making pagent arrangements.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
think it will make it to you-tube?
it is a joke - and the nuns who participate, if any really do, will have convicted themselves.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:20 am
There is a certain holiness ,a simple beauty about some Nuns. A beauty that is reflected from their interior. My 15 year old Nun wanna be ,would find this disturbing. She refuses to wear makeup. Though the rest of us girls are Estee Lauder freaks!
These women that participate in this just dont have the “it’ factor.
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/undergrads/careers/b ow.jpg
I will pray or you today Clara ,and 10 friends.