Passionist Nuns

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A Barn-Raising Battlefield

The Lenten season of spiritual warfare fought with the weapons of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving, is almost at an end.  But one recent afternoon, while surveying the site destined to house a new barn for the monastery's garden and lawn tools, some of our nuns were reminded of a very different sort of war...

"The life of man upon earth is a warfare" -Job 7:1

Anyone recognize the iconic photo they sought to replicate here?