The complete story I wrote on being in the cloister has made it online. Go to thunderstruck.org and look for the pink on the right hand side of the page. A sample:
Johnny Rabbitt's office at radio station WRTH is filled with bunny-related objects. Actually, the studio itself features a giant stuffed Bugs Bunny, a rabbit in a vest and top hat, toy rabbits in toy cars, plastic carrots, and the like. His office is almost subdued in comparison, with more emphasis on his books on local trivia and mementos of his decades-long radio career, but still rabbits abound. There is a soft cuddly example of the taxidermist's art perched atop a file cabinet.
I have stopped by the station to pick up my paycheck and have found Rabbitt's office open. I decide to sneak in and surf the web on his computer--Hotmail has been threatening dire consequences if I don't dump a couple hundred K's worth of messages from my inbox. Surely Rabbitt isn't around on a weekend, I think. All the offices were open; the cleaning crew is at work. But as I confront the agony of deleting precious email, a thick-spectacled shadow looms in the doorway.
"Angela! Hey, listen, fate may have brought you here. Are you a good writer?"
"I'm a great writer, Johnny."
"Oh good, oh good. Would you like to help me write something?"
"Sure! What about?"
"The Pink Sisters."
My heart honestly leaps at the thought. I know very little about the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters except that they wear eye-catching pink habits--not subtle pink, mind you; vivid pink like cotton candy, like the last color anyone who doesn't really know nuns would expect them to wear. I say "doesn't really know nuns" because pink would be perfect on some of the nuns of my acquaintance--the giddy young Vietnamese sisters at my church, my high school math teacher who cursed like a sailor--but I know the stereotype calls for a more sober hue. I know why these nuns are called "Pink Sisters" and I know they are cloistered. I know they prayed for good weather when the Pope visited St. Louis in January of '99, and that the temperature jumped up to 68 degrees during his visit. I know a woman who visited their convent and described to me the hospitality and the wise eyes of the Superior. I know and feel their mystique, the curiosity anyone feels about women who go in through a certain door and make a promise they will never leave. But I have never gone to their convent myself. I've always meant to but never have. I suppose I'm afraid they'll bite.
Posted by eshtine at February 13, 2003 11:15 AMThis is an exquisite example of when Eshtine is good, she is very, very good...sharp (get the point?). My only 'cutting' comment is the last paragraph has a couple clumsily long sentences--especially the first sentence of the last paragraph. Of course, Great Goddess, you know I believe this entire story is MARKETABLE!!!! (As in for money and/or fame)
Posted by: kitgefallen at February 14, 2003 08:26 PMThe story about Johnny was captivating. I really thought you were gonna get busted for breaking and entering...well, entering anyway. That turned out good. Was this the story of how you wound up with the Pink, or should I say, what brought you there the first time?
I want to see the story you wrote about your trip to Cleveland. Didn't you say it was on here somewhere? I'm dredfully bad at surfing. Sending me the URL would be the best bet, if you could, I'd like to read it.
:) thanks.
d
I am glad that you finally are getting other comments about this story, maybe you will believe them. (sorry if I sound like a Druish Mother) You are better than you know and you are appreciated more accurately than you believe.
ffletcher
This is a horrendous, stupid waste of time on a very holy and sancitified order of sisters giving their lives to Our Lord in Perpetual Adoration. The author's style is puerile, the content vapid. What an insult to Our Lord and to these Sisters, about whom the author states that she knows very little. She knows less than nothing about the meaning of the spiritual life of a soul. The author has a spiritual life, yes. Perhaps her interest and work relating to the Pink sisters is the start of her spiritual journey. Let us hope that this is so.
Posted by: EK at April 23, 2003 11:36 AMPlease post the URL - or at least the date it showed up. There is just so much to look thru. I was looking for the Pink Sister's web site because I'm in need of a miracle for a paralyzed friend, and I wanted to ask for their prayers.
This web page caught my eye and then the post by EK REALLY caught my eye! It is written, "judge not lest ye be judged" and as far as I know there were no exceptions listed. Enough said.
So, please post the URL - I look forward to reading it!
Posted by: raven at October 17, 2003 07:56 PMMy only advice to this author is "Don't Make Comments You Don't know About" It only makes you sound like an ______.
By the way these sisters had prayed for my healing I was bedridden for almost 2 years between St. Joseph Medical Center, Regency Physical Rehab. (Yonkers) and Midway Nursing Homes (New York City)
For Pink Sisters Prayer Request click site or www.listen2this.com
Posted by: Jun Mescallado at February 13, 2004 12:09 AMI would like to have the words to Hail Mary.
Posted by: Barbara Thomas at January 28, 2005 11:02 AMHail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Blessed are you amongst women and Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God, please pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death.
amen
Posted by: Marty at March 21, 2005 07:37 PM