Welcome, Josie!!
Our newest postulant is a bit furrier than any we’ve ever had before …
She’s also quite a bit younger - is there something in Canon Law about 5-month-olds entering the monastery?
But she came already dressed in her postulant black-and-white, and we feel that we can be fairly confident about her vocation …
If you somehow haven’t guessed already, our new “postulant” is actually a KITTEN! On Gaudete Sunday, our rejoicing was augmented when this little kitty came to her new home at St. Joseph’s Monastery. After a long debate, we finally settled on a name for our newest member: Josie, in honor of good St. Joseph! She has already proven herself a real “cuddle bug” who loves to be around people, and her antics have enlivened recreation and sparked lots of laughter from the community.
With 13 nuns doting on her, it’s a foregone conclusion that little Josie will be rather spoiled - but she’ll be earning her keep, too! We hope that this feline addition to our monastery will be an effective deterrent to garden-ruining chipmunks and other pesky critters that come with living out in the country. We all have to do our work around the monastery, after all …
Enjoy a few snapshots of our newest “community member”!
“Bless the LORD, all you works of the LORD,
Praise and exalt Him above all forever ...
All you beasts, wild and tame, bless the LORD,
Praise and exalt Him above all forever!”