The Nun's Story Page #3

And the bush station where he thinks

you would like to do your nursing.

I told him it was much too soon

even to think of it.

Of course, Reverend Mother.

-I....

-Well, go ahead.

I just want to become a good nurse

and a good nun...

and to do God's work wherever I'm sent.

First become a good nun.

We select only the very strongest sisters

for our missions.

Your nursing qualifications would

seem to make you a likely candidate.

But you are still very far

from being mature in the religious life.

Maturity is the armor of our missionaries.

And this is not achieved in a day.

Since tomorrow is the day of vesture...

when you receive the habit of a novice...

we must talk today about detachment.

You have already detached yourselves

from family and friends.

Now we have the difficult detachment

from things and memories.

Tonight, when you go to your cells...

you will find parts of your new habit.

And on your tables, the only possessions

allowed you from now on.

A basket will be passed.

And you must put in it,

of your own free will...

any object you still have...

which might call up memories

of your former life.

What do you ask, my daughters?

We ask for the mercy of God.

And for the favor to be received...

into this congregation.

We offer our Lord...

our liberty, our memory, and our will.

And we ask only for His love

and His holy grace.

Are you firmly resolved...

to despise the honors, riches...

and all the vain pleasures of this world...

in order to prepare

for a closer union with God?

We are so resolved, Monsignor.

Do you make this request

of your own free will?

-Yes.

-Yes.

May the Lord, who has begun this...

-bring it to perfection.

-Amen.

Go, my children...

divest yourselves

of the vanity of this world.

And receive for your bodies

the habit of humility.

Yvonne Duval

will be known as Sister Marie Sebastian.

Henrietta de la Croix

will be known as Sister Marie Bernadette.

Simone Pascin

will be known as Sister Marie Christine.

Cecile de Planer

will be known as Sister Marie Joseph.

Gabrielle Van der Mal

will be known as Sister Luke.

Sister, you make a beautiful nun.

Sister.

You're blushing.

It happened to me, too, in my ward.

We shouldn't blush, I'm sure we shouldn't.

How can we help it?

It must mean

some wrong awareness of self.

Must we write it in our notebooks?

I don't know.

Should we write that we talked alone?

I always start it.

Your training as a postulant

has been mostly in externals.

Now, as novices,

you will be devoting the next year...

to the real formation of a nun.

During that entire year,

none of you will leave the Mother House.

We will pay particular attention

to the removal of faults...

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