This nun is customary to keep life fun.
Sister Monica Clare continues to surprise when outsiders do not believe as superior Hip is inside the convent, as one who thought that nuns were forbidden to use electricity.
“People have interesting ideas about the way we live the nuns,” the 59 -year -old senior sister told The Post in the Community of San Juan Bautista in Mendham, New Jersey.
“We are not amish, we are nuns. We have a rolling ribbon, we use iphones and even transmit Netflix and Hulu!”
“We have an old and donated ribbon rolling and, yes, I had my habit while I was doing exercise, but I stopped because it started to accelerate up to 50 mph in the middle of a training,” he added, emphasizing that he generally carries black Asics.
As for television on the convent: “All the sisters love to” call the midwife! “, He said.
That a nun can have fun is another wrong perception of monastic life that Sister Monica Clare, born Claudette Powell, wanted to dissipate social media and in her recent book, “a change of habit: to leave behind my husband, my career and everything I had to become a nun.”
Online, the episcopal nun publishes informative and often hilarious Tiktoks in @nunsenseforthepeople, which covers everything, from its skin care regime to what it maintains in the habit of its habit. (It always maintains the lip balm, a Swiss army knife with a USB impetus and the drops of cough in hand).
“Some of the nuns do not have my strange sense of humor, but I worked in advertising when social media was created, so I can speak this language,” he said, with his soft southern accent, adding that most of his 200,000 followers are women on Gen X.
As for this skin care routine, there is none; “I just avoid the sun, I do not drink or smoke, and I do not eat sugar. Maybe this helps to avoid wrinkles,” he joked.
Reducing coffee has also helped. He used to drink six cups of coffee a day and now drink one because of his high blood pressure, although “all sisters drink a lot of coffee,” he said.
Most importantly, it wants everyone to know that the nuns are also common humans. “We have Monday, so the sisters can wear people’s clothes on Mondays and the holidays,” he said.
Sister
Soon to be an ordered priest, Sister Monica Clare is on the mission of educating about the life of the convent and encourages her companions of nuns in her progressive order to do the same. For example, they have asked them to leave the rule against compliance. Now they not only praise each other, but also thanks and hugs.
“People think that nuns are severe, affecting people with rulers,” he said. “They think we cannot be happy if we choose celibacy, we must be angry all the time, but it is not.”
When he approached a memory, the first thing he did was ask the other nine nuns with whom he lives in his rural convent to weigh.
“Two were very against,” he said. “They expressed the fears that the book promoted too much unwanted advertising.”
However, Sister Monica Clare was determined to share her story of growing in Rome, Georgia, with an abusive father. He used pseudonyms in describing his companions nuns who were strongly against his writing of the book.
“I have told my story to my therapists and I have been to Al-Anon for friends and addicts for years,” he said. “Writing -everything felt different, especially the things of my childhood. There were times when I would excite that I would start crying, even 50 years later, this still has power.”
Ego altar
It was when he was a boy who was fascinated by books and films about nuns: he described his family as chaos and the Church. When he was a child in the 70’s, he was seen in “The Flying Nun” and “A Mony’s Life” starring Audrey Hepburn.
After studying the performance in Nyu, he moved to Los Angeles and worked as a babysitter while making auditions for papers.
For a while, he became a foot comic and taught with the legendary Groundlings troop with Jennifer Coolidge and Cheri Oteri. It was then that he met the man he would get married soon.
While his life looked like glamorous on the surface, he said he felt like a stranger most of the time, remembering a night he was invited to drink at the Mondrian Hollywood Hotel.
“I don’t drink, it is the number one form not to fit,” he recalled. “I would be so tense and when I have a social anxiety, I start sweating and turning red. After nights like these, I would think,” I’m not cut for it. I don’t belong here. “
Painly shy, he also remembers to hear that he had nothing to say when he had a while with the other Groundlings performers.
“I would see what others were like,” he said. “I did not find a foray to say something. I remember once Kathy Griffin had the court and, again, he had not said a word. He pointed out, and he said in a joke,” Never needed! “”
After years of turning his wheels by listening to acting without interpreting the business, he let this dream go. To pay the invoices, he ended up working full time as a photo publisher at various Hollywood advertising agencies for two decades.
“I used to say my day of life because I would run out so horrifyingly,” he said. “I used to have to slip in time between the work to pray and do Church things.”
Change of habit
She long for a change, so she started contacting convents to ask -to become a nun and joined an episcopal church in Beverly Hills, California.
What he did not know is that his “gentle, apparently devoted” husband had deceived him with several other women. In 1999, when he finished his marriage, he said he really hit the rock bottom.
“At that time, I was in my first thirty years and I felt something had to change,” he said.
He continued to call convents, asking -if he would still be allowed to see his family, play the guitar and use a computer in case he fits the requirements to become a nun.
“I asked what I should give up. I did not realize that I should give up everything, from buying new clothes to having my own bank account.”
Understanding a vote of poverty, chastity and obedience was something. Paying $ 150,000 in debt was also a requirement to join the convent, a task that took him a decade to achieve it.
“I never won the big dollars in advertising,” he said. “Throughout my career, I had part-time concerts and work and still had difficulty paying the bills. I already lived a frugal life, but to join the convent, I had to be even more frugal.”
For sister Monica Clare, it was worth a simpler and quieter life. This is the fact that the whole income of the sale of his book will return directly to the convent that has become his home for life.
“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a nun and I thought for a long time that it would never happen,” he said.
“It is so liberating that I manage to do this meaningful work for God 24/7.”
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