About Convents

Newark, NJ - jack - Friday, September 8th, 2006 : goo

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no pictures but i want to relate a little story about a convent of cloistered dominican nuns who were living in newark in a monastery over 100 years old. i know i have some pics somewhere and when i find them i will post them. two nuns at that convent are personnal friends of mine. they always pray for me and believe me i need it. the older nun, sister mary magdeline, told me she went into this monastery when she was 20 in 1940. here is the story as she related it to me. "well jack i came here a young girl and i remember it was sometime in the early 50's, perhaps, 1952 when a young beautiful girl came to the monastery. she was a novice and around her second year here she became very sick. she never complained, sought pity but rather just worked and performed her duties. praying constantly, she was one of the holiest girls i have ever seen. she died that year and we placed her in the tomb beneath this convent. two weeks ago we were packing everything up for our move to michigan, and some of us had to go into the tomb to gather the bones and dust of the dead sisters for internment at another burial site. we went to this sisters casket and we found her in one peice and as beautiful as the day she died 54 years ago. we stood her up alongside her casket and took off the shreds of fabric and placed on her a new habit. we laid her back down and her incorrupt body is being transfered to another burial site." this is a true story. by the way there are two types of nuns, the brides of Christ are cloistered away in monasteries and are nuns who made vows to God. the other sisters are nuns who teach in schools and make their vows to the local bishop and wear the habit of their vocation, which could be franciscan or dominican or any other religious group. they can leave their order if they please. hope you liked the story.

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