Who’d be a nun? Behind the statistics announced this week, which show that the number of women entering religious life is at a 25-year high, are the stories of 45 real women making the choice to become a nun or sister. I made that decision last year, and this January I entered an order called the Congregation of Jesus.
In many ways, my story is not a dramatic one. I was brought up Catholic, and grew up going to Mass on Sundays, attending Catholic schools and taking a lively interest in my faith. At university, this faith matured in the company of others who were serious about loving God. Many of them were thinking about life as priests, monks or nuns, and several are now ordained. But most have ended up embarking on married life. I’ve begun to think that deciding to get married and deciding to become a nun aren’t as different as they first appear.
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