Sister Regina is a fictitious Handmaid who appears almost every week on this site, on our Facebook page, and in our Twitter feed. She gives those outside the cloister an idea of what life within the monastery can be like. Click any cartoon to see a larger image.
Sister Regina the cartoon is not published during the seasons of Advent, the Christmas Octave, Lent, or the Easter Octave to not only allow the Handmaids to more deeply enter into those times of more intense prayer, but also to encourage others to do so as well.
A news update from Cor Jesu Monastery: Gertrude (named after Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, patron saint of cats and cat lovers...at least since 1983) joins Gunther in anti-squirrel operations. Though trim and tiny, Gertrude shows great promise as an ally in the squirrel wars. Gunther, now a medically retired hunting veteran, will be showing Gertrude the ropes as to monastic living for cats before he resumes what can only be referred to as ‘therapy cat’ duties. [He refuses the moniker ‘house cat’ and feels he must have a job. He still hunts and patrols indoors.]
But this also means that Shadow, Gunther’s cartoon alter ego, needs his new companion in cartoon-land to have an appropriate name as well. So we are accepting suggestions to suit the duo of a solid 11 pound Russian Blue male 3 year old and a Dilute Tortie female 7 month old who hasn’t approached even 6 pounds on the scale.
May y’all have a Blessed and safe Thanksgiving! We are are grateful for each and every one of you and send a special note of thanks and appreciation to our special veterinarian and her staff.
We’ve also added a few kitten related items to our Amazon wishlist and remain indebted to all our friends and benefactors.
Sometimes it seems that many people are focused more on their comfort here in time than in the hereafter. It pays to remember that life is indeed short and eternity long. And the prospect of Heaven’s rewards can be forgotten against the threat of the pains of hell. But thinking of redemption, a redemption that will one day include our resurrected bodies, is no small consolation amid the groans (both inward and outward) that accompany life and aging. In fact, staying focused on following the Lord as he guides us closer to himself for all eternity, makes offering up all our aches and pains not only easier but can transform the offering into an occasion of joy.
Be joyful whether your groans can be heard or not!
We’ve been blessed to enjoy several Come and See vocational inquirers despite the pandemic. As we begin to accept candidates and aspirants to our formation program, it gives us an opportunity to reflect on the perennial aspects of vocational discernment regardless of differences between one generation and the next. There is much labeling and categorizing and over generalizations whether someone falls into X, Y, Z, Millennial or whatever the latest designator is.
It’s been said that some of the younger generations fear commitment and that may be true for some individuals. When we examine a candidate, it’s done on an individual basis with the goal of discerning together where that young woman may be called. It is heartening that, amid the stereotypes the world attempts to place on people, we are seeing a sincere desire in many young women to give themselves totally and completely to Christ. It enlivens and re-energizes our own vocations as we recall with gratitude those first stirrings in the heart when we heard him whisper, “Follow me” and responded with eager longing and a desire to give ourselves to him forever.
Please join us in prayers of gratitude for every woman seeking God’s will for her and exploring if he may be calling her to religious life. May they follow the Good Shepherd wholeheartedly in whatever walk of life he leads them to.
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...
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Website note: September 2020 – We switched to posting Sister Regina’s Comic Strips on Instagram, but you can still enjoy her past comics in the archive below.
Humor helps. A cartoon from the not so distant past.
![What do you mean, ANOTHER cat?
A news update from Cor Jesu Monastery: Gertrude (named after Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, patron saint of cats and cat lovers...at least since 1983) joins Gunther in anti-squirrel operations. Though trim and tiny, Gertrude shows great promise as an ally in the squirrel wars. Gunther, now a medically retired hunting veteran, will be showing Gertrude the ropes as to monastic living for cats before he resumes what can only be referred to as ‘therapy cat’ duties. [He refuses the moniker ‘house cat’ and feels he must have a job. He still hunts and patrols indoors.]
But this also means that Shadow, Gunther’s cartoon alter ego, needs his new companion in cartoon-land to have an appropriate name as well. So we are accepting suggestions to suit the duo of a solid 11 pound Russian Blue male 3 year old and a Dilute Tortie female 7 month old who hasn’t approached even 6 pounds on the scale.
May y’all have a Blessed and safe Thanksgiving! We are are grateful for each and every one of you and send a special note of thanks and appreciation to our special veterinarian and her staff.
We’ve also added a few kitten related items to our Amazon wishlist and remain indebted to all our friends and benefactors.
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