Book Review: In This House of Brede
By Penny. I would have been about twenty the first time I read Rumer Godden's novel (actual quote from a friend: "You want to be a nun, and you haven't read In This House of Brede?"), and at first I found it hard going. For one thing, there are a lot of characters....
Mail for the Month of May!
Breaking News: For a variety of reasons we just got a new P.O. box! Please note our new mailing address: Leonie's Longing PO Box 13285 Lansing, MI 48901 In the last year, a large amount of our mail was junk mail. It's always disappointing to look in the mailbox and...
Forward Boldly
By Maid of Orleans. There she stood in an ocean of tears; The flood of memories return in a flash. Sorrow, suffering, and pain appear; The untold shame of the deeds of her past. They haunt and they pierce, these memories bleed; The time is now gone, high was the cost....
Video Blog Post: Finding Community Away From Community
Here it is, folks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjZkSG-h3gE Bonus: blooper reel and out-takes at the end!
An Unconventional Week
By Penny. Almost three months to the day after I promised to write this blog post, I am sitting down at my laptop with the resolution not to budge until it's done. What I set out to write back in January was a lively, cheerful account of a week spent with two friends...
Pierced But Not Broken
By Girasol. In my former community, we would comment--in a somewhat light-hearted way--about the age of thirty-three being the "year of crucifixion." Perhaps those community sisters of mine who had already passed that age spoke with more truth than I realized. While...
Do I Believe in the Resurrection?
By Mater Dolorosa. Of course I believe it, right? As we begin the Easter season we have just heard it proclaimed: Jesus died and rose from the dead! I believe it intellectually. I profess it in the Creed and it is a tenant of our Catholic Faith. But what does it...
Three Years of the LL Blog
Hello everyone! It's a milestone for us: three years ago on the 17th of March, our first-ever post went live on the Leonie's Longing blog! For a look back at where it all began, check out "Nun Ya Beeznus" by Rosa Mystica...
Heaven Longing or Leonie’s Longing?
By Guadalupana. Picture this, I'm on a silent retreat (but not a religious vocation retreat; I'm no longer discerning religious life!) and at the end of the closing Mass for the retreat, the priest calls forward for a "special blessing" two religious sisters and four...
Book Review: I Leap Over the Wall
Given that Monica Baldwin's I Leap Over the Wall is perhaps the most famous book ever about leaving the convent, it's surprising that it took me so long to read it. Or perhaps not. I'd read Father Richard Butler's analysis of it in his book Religious Vocation: An...
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