An interesting article about the sisters at the convent of St. Catherine of Siena in Nuevo Vedado, in what is now part of Havana, For the past 320 years, the Dominican sisters have been living a life of prayer and contemplation, far removed from the world of ordinary cares. The article is really fascinating in so far as the sisters explain their lives of union with God, something they’re not given to doing.
At the moment, only two of the seven sisters at the convent are Cuban. In an interesting side note that may amplify why, not two days ago, a family member was telling me that when the cloistered Carmelite community in her town was intervenido, the nuns were summarily packed up and shipped off to Canada. Not content with looting the convent and booting the nuns, the good revolutionaries then set about trashing the reputation of the same, putting it our that they found scads of condoms inside.
There really are no coincidences
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