Truth Wins – a Nun’s Story

by Daily Dew Testimonies | Jun 12, 2025 | Testimonies

Forty-five years of my life were spent as a Roman Catholic; twenty-two of them as a nun in an enclosed convent dedicated to adoration, reparation and suffering. I believed it was a nun’s calling to be a miniature saviour of the world like Jesus Christ. After attending Catholic elementary school for eight years and memorizing catechism which is the Roman Catholic textbook, I believed in my heart that a family having a son or daughter become a priest or nun would receive God’s favour and special blessings. I decided to enter the convent when I was old enough to leave home. This was my goal while I was still in my teens. On my twenty-first birthday, 1954, I entered the convent against my parent’s wishes. My belief in my calling to be a nun superseded my parent’s vehement opposition. Even though it broke my heart to leave my family I consoled myself in the fact that I was doing God’s will by making this sacrifice for the salvation of my family and all those outside the Catholic faith who I believed were doomed to hell. At first, I was in awe of the solitude, structural beauty and peacefulness the convent seemed to have. I was taught to do penance-such as sleeping on a board, prostrating myself at the door of

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