When did you last see a Nun?

[EvotingMachine0197]

Two weeks ago. My aunt is a nun

That's cheating.

But at least you owned up.

[toxic avenger]

My first teacher was a nun, she coaxed me into school on my first day when I was four. She is also Ronnie Whelan's aunt.

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Is this some sort of human sacrifice thing?
I can suggest more deserving candidates if so.

[EvotingMachine0197]

She's from Cork, though she was born in England. She's dying.

What? The girl in her 20's dying ? Shte. That's really not ok under my view of the world.

[gerhard dengler]

A good friend of ours, her sister became a nun about 5 years ago,

The woman is in her 30's and had worked as a teacher, had a great social life, but she decided that she wanted to become a nun.
So she followed her calling and hasn't looked back since.

[Munnkeyman]

Is this some sort of human sacrifice thing?
I can suggest more deserving candidates if so.

Why?

Who do you wish to see sacrificed?

[toxic avenger]

What? The girl in her 20's dying ? Shte. That's really not ok under my view of the world.

Yep, extremely happy, smiley, prayerful girl, but suffers from brain tumours and has MS. Not fair at all.

[drummed]

Why?

Who do you wish to see sacrificed?

I don't wish to see anybody sacrificed as such.
Merely pointing out that if we must do so i can think of better candidates than some poor nun.

[gerhard dengler]

That's cheating.

But at least you owned up.

Actually I enjoy going to visit her at her order's house. Brings back a lot of happy memories of visits there when we were kids.

[gatsbygirl20]

I just caught the very end of 'The Nun Story' this afternoon. I love that movie. I'm a massive Audrey Hepburn fan.

I hopped off the sofa, and asked my EVMSU, when was the last time she saw a Nun. She said she saw one in town (Dublin City ) last year.

My Gran Aunt was a Nun, she died in 1990 or something. I've seen home video footage since of her in the olden days. She was a Sister in the convent in Rathmines I think. Back in the olden days ('50s) they had rules about leaving the gaff.

I haven't seen a proper Nun in yonks. Are they finished ?

Where's all the nuns gone ?

I loved The Nun's Story too--and the book is even better, like those old great story-telling novels by Nevil Shute that everyone used to read once

But the film totally romanticices nuns. No nun I ever knew was as beautiful as Audrey Hepburn or had as good a Reverend Mother.

The nuns of my childhood were cruel and terrifying--sweeping around in long black skirts and veils, cuffing us about the ears for not remaining totally silent as we stood in shivering terrified ranks in the school yard, waiting for permission to march back into the building

But i worked--and work---with brilliant, kind and terrifyingly efficient nuns. So I hold no resentment...Why nuns should be so good at running things efficiently I do not know---they just are. Take it from me. I've seen many changes...

The nuns are dying out. Feminism, modern psychology and the changes in the Church put paid to them. The few left are caring for old 90 year old senile, cross and difficult former hospital matrons etc. who are taking a long time to die.

It is a lonely, strange life. they must remember the former austerity and the Rule--where they were not even allowed to leave the convent to visit a dying parent---and they must ask themselves what it was all for