After a nun has spent a few years in the monastery, there is not much left but to love.   For some of the Sisters, that truth breaks through quickly and love becomes a life project.

Certainly, there are a few who find something else to do, even there, but the love the sisters share, especially when the Abbess knows how to promote devotion and prosper love, is strong and full.

Postulants must leave their other debts paid when they come into the enclosure, and that is liberating in itself. It would appear that it does not take long “inside” to realize that, having come for the love of God, debts of love toward one another are land mines on the path of devotion to Him, and the “rule” of the house knows how to disarm them.

Shall we all pay a debt of love today? We will come away enriched.

Andreas Cruz photography