Blogging Nuns

[jkaands]

...is at:

[url="http://anunslife.org/blogs-by-catholic-women-religious/"]http://anunslife.org/blogs-by-catholic-women-religious/[/url]

[philosophette]

Sweet! Thanks for the link!

[moon_child_anne]

[quote name='jkaands' post='1323205' date='Jul 10 2007, 03:56 PM']...is at:

[url="http://anunslife.org/blogs-by-catholic-women-religious/"]http://anunslife.org/blogs-by-catholic-women-religious/[/url][/quote]

Thanks for the link! One of the SND's blogs is there, I see. I've bookmarked her page and will look at the others.
There's also a group called SisterBloggers where alot of women religious blog and alot of those discerning
too.

[url="http://sisterbloggers.blogspot.com/"]http://sisterbloggers.blogspot.com/[/url]

If you go by that site, the blogs are listed on the right hand column.

PEace,
Anne

[stlmom]

Just wanted to point out that former phatmasser Sr. Helga has updated her blog--hers is the very last one at the bottom of the page.

[Carolyn]

Hey, thanks! I've been looking for these for a while now!

[stlmom]

Former phatmasser Sr. Helga has posted on her blog again while studying in Mexico. She really has a heart for the poor. Hope y'all can find the time to read it!

[csj]

This isn't a blog but it's a new website that's pretty good:

[url="http://www.catholicnunstoday.org/"]http://www.catholicnunstoday.org/[/url]

[stlmom]

[quote name='csj' post='1348221' date='Aug 2 2007, 10:52 PM']This isn't a blog but it's a new website that's pretty good:

[url="http://www.catholicnunstoday.org/"]http://www.catholicnunstoday.org/[/url][/quote]


Thanks--guess what? If you follow the link to the story of Sr. Rosa Ortiz IWBS, you will get to another link that features Sr. Helga as well--nice surprise--I hope those who knew her here will read it!

[HollyDolly]

The Marianist Sisters weblog and the communities featured on catholicnunstoday.org are right in my area .The Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrement from Victoria ,Tx teach at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Selma,just up the road from me.Sweet!

[stlmom]

Once again, for Sister Helga's blog (Incarnate Word Postulant)--her newest entries about becoming a canonical novice and having a new sister enter the novitiate with her--are really worth taking the time to read. God bless !

[be_thou_my_vision]

[quote name='stlmom' post='1364557' date='Aug 20 2007, 05:19 PM'] Once again, for Sister Helga's blog (Incarnate Word Postulant)--her newest entries about becoming a canonical novice and having a new sister enter the novitiate with her--are really worth taking the time to read. God bless ![/quote]
That's really great! I'm so happy for them! Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

[shortnun]

A brand-new blog: [b][url="http://1franciscanway.blogspot.com/"]The Franciscan Sisters of the Martyr St. George!!![/url][/b]

[shortnun]

There is also this blog done by the [b][url="http://hopefullsigns.blogspot.com/"]Sisters of Jesus our Hope.[/url][/b]

[Saint Therese]

[stlmom]

[url="http://www.benedictinesofmary.blogspot.com"]Benedictines of Mary[/url]

[ardent1]

[quote name='HollyDolly' post='1348607' date='Aug 3 2007, 01:37 PM']The Marianist Sisters weblog and the communities featured on catholicnunstoday.org are right in my area .The Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrement from Victoria ,Tx teach at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Selma,just up the road from me.Sweet![/quote]
Sr. Nicole, the Marianist Sister, just moved to Dayton, OH for her second year of the novitiate!

[stlmom]

[url="http://genglen.blogspot.com/"]Sister Genevieve Glen, OSB--St. Walburga's in Colorado[/url]

[Sister Rose Therese]

It seems like a lot of different communities and individual Sisters have blogs and them also a website.
Do you find the blogs helpful? More helpful than the websites? Or is it just that you like to reading them more for enjoyment, inspiration and not so much as a help for discernment?

[stlmom]

[quote name='Sister Rose Therese' post='1398442' date='Oct 6 2007, 02:58 PM']It seems like a lot of different communities and individual Sisters have blogs and them also a website.
Do you find the blogs helpful? More helpful than the websites? Or is it just that you like to reading them more for enjoyment, inspiration and not so much as a help for discernment?[/quote]

Hi Sister,
Obviously, I'm not a discerner, but may I add my two cents on blogs vs. websites? If a community has a website that is regularly updated, that seems to satisfy many people who are exploring religious life. Blogs can be very interesting to read, but I wonder how time consuming they must be for the writer, to regularly come up with something thoughtful and readable. How many religious really have time to do this? Blogs that are written by women in formation are sometimes very insightful and can dispel erroneous notions about religious life effectively. But if I had to choose between the two, I'd keep the website up to date and informative and not worry about blogging.

[shortnun]

I'd like to propose that there ought to be a connection b/w a community's charism and whether or not they blog. In other words, I know many Daughters of St. Paul have blogs--they link to them on their website. Seeing as their charism mediates God's work through the media, I think it's a wonderful "apostolate" of sorts for the sisters to be involved in. Also, the Georgetown Visitation sisters have a blog and try to stick to only updating it on Sundays--and this I think is an indication of how they live in the healthy tension b/w apostolic and monastic life. But if a Missionary of Charity (a community who specifically choses to not even have a website) started a blog, I'd be slightly befuddled (not to say I wouldn't read it). In the end, I'm in agreement with STLmom- a regularly updated website beats a blog any day.