The story of Olive, posted yesterday, reminds me to share with you one of my dearest friends, Sr. Fidelis Hart, OSC. Sister is a Poor Clare nun. For a while, she was my spiritual director, and I used to go to the Poor Clare monastery in New Orleans and spend days at a time with her.Sister and her twin were born on August 8, 1915, in Liverpool, England. She soon will be 93 years old. While she was a young child, she and her family immigrated to the United States, to New York where she grew up. She is a brilliant, well-educated person. Time has not diminished her joy in life and her desire to learn and be involved. She is an inspiration.
I receive e-mails from her regularly. She told me she wanted her own web page so I provided one, found here: http://www.ourladyofthepearl.com/fidelis.htm Her page has a short story of her life, a writing by her when her twin died recently, a slide show of photographs and other things. This morning I added to her page with an e-mail from her about a white deer. She is my sister, my mother and my friend - all in one.
2 comments:
Is this the dear soul that you told me about? The one who likes Elvis?
No but I wouldn't be surprised if she did. The nuns I told you about who visited our blog here and listened our Elvis selections (the writer said that it brought back old times for her) are the Poor Clare Colettines in Wales. Their website is here: http://www.poorclarestmd.org/ . Initially they found me through one of my websites. They write every day. So precious.
There is a connection between Sr. Fidelis and the Clares in Wales. She visited them about 20 years ago, and they still remember her and have reconnected through e-mails.
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