You’ve probably seen or heard about Catholics filing into a movie theater and genuflecting at their row of seats. In monasteries, nuns can also get into a routine of picking up visual or physical cues and moving accordingly before realizing what we’re doing. Standing and bowing at the end of chanting a psalm is usually done together. But not always. A sudden move or sound can set off the entire Chapel in a sort of religious wave of standing, bending, and bowing bodies until we can get back in sync. Another example of God’s sense of humor. #sisterreginacomicstrip ...

Why, after Roe V. Wade has been overturned, is the March for Life still happening and marking its 50th year in D.C. while many scores of local marches also take place? Maybe an answer is found in the name itself. It is called "March for Life", not "March for the Overturning of Roe V. Wade." It isn`t about one law, one right or one prohibition. It`s about life - which, if we think about it, encompasses EVERYTHING ELSE. Though the momentous event in 2022, overturning a ruling like Roe V. Wade and moving the fight for life to the State level, is to celebrated, this isn`t just about that decision. It`s really and fundamentally about converting hearts and enlightening minds to see life as it fully is: a GIFT from God alone. Life, be that of the unborn baby in the womb or of the mother or the father or the elderly or the chronically ill, is something to be revered, respected and protected from conception to natural death. #sisterreginacomicstrip ...

It is our express mission in the Church to sacrifice and pray for priests, especially their sanctification and we do this through Eucharistic adoration. This week you notice there are no nuns in the cartoon. Just a priest kneeling in Chapel with his breviary at a prie-dieu. A little halo pops up and he thanks God for the help he knows he`s receiving from the prayers of those invisible nuns. Only in eternity will each soul see all the prayers, sacrifices, and efforts that sustained it through all the trials of life. We all want to get to Heaven, but we also want to bring others with us. We encourage others to do the same. Pray for your priests. Let them know you are praying for them. And thank them for praying for you! #sisterreginacomicstrip ...

We share a cartoon from the past highlighting that though All Souls Day is celebrated on November 2nd, the entire month is dedicated to these holy helpers in a special way. Let us pray in earnest for those who pray more earnestly for us than we can comprehend. #sisterreginacomicstrip ...

There is a saying about monastic life, or any religious life for that matter, "The big things get small, but the small things get big." Compared to people in the world, a monk or nun will find the `big things` like the things they did in the world to pay their taxes, loans, car payments, mortgage etc seem to vanish or get small, freeing up the person for an undistracted pursuit of God. Compared to God, all things seem small. But as human beings, the little things, even for nuns, can then become big. A woman can divest herself of career, job, house, car, etc., and find smaller things grow in size in the monastery that can also serve the devil`s purpose of keeping one from an undistracted pursuit of God. It could be saving that old holy card that`s too beautiful to part with or keeping something broken but that might be useful to someone `someday`. Being human, the small things can be clung to too. Thus another saying becomes very apropos, "Hang on to Jesus. Drop everything else like a rock!" #sisterreginacomicstrip ...

When we meet priests from persecuted areas, it gives us greater impetus to not just pray for them and their safety, but to strive to live our charism by sacrificing for their physical and spiritual welfare and those whom they serve in the Church. While it is no longer outside the pale of American imagination, we really can`t claim to live under oppression and persecution yet. But many Christians and Catholics around the world already do live under active harassment, discrimination, and oppression. And priests, especially those in a position to help people under persecution, are always going to be targets. Anyone who strengthens those that want the freedom to fully live out their faith in all aspects of their lives is going to be unwelcome by ungodly regimes. So, let us pray for priests everywhere, particularly those whose simple status of priesthood marks them as enemies of the powers that be and thus in real danger for their safety and their lives. Like Christ, many priests are willing to lay down their lives for their flocks. We can offer up our lives for them, transforming any of our small trials into grace for those in need by uniting them to Our Lord in his Passion. #sisterreginacomicstrip ...