"When she was a high school student in
Maryland, Sister Susan Francois got her first job at Kmart. She then
requested shifts on Saturdays and Sundays to avoid church. Born and
raised Catholic, she was already experiencing doubts about the role of
women in the church and in the institution itself. She spent most of the
1990s as an 'ex-Catholic,' she said, living in Portland, Ore., where
she went to college and worked as a city elections official.
"As the millennium approached, however, Sister Susan, now 46, became interested in her Catholic roots again. 'I was in this high-powered career, but where I found all my joy in life was through my volunteer work,' she said. She began to see a connection between what was rapidly becoming her social mission and Catholicism.
"So she started to fill her weekends with church again.
"In 2005, Sister Susan got in even deeper: She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace religious order on the West Coast. It was around this time, she said, that she noticed other nuns praying for President George W. Bush and then, President Barack Obama. In 2017, two years after she had relocated to the St. Joseph headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Sister Susan decided to take her own presidential praying practice to the next level: Twitter."
A recent article in The New York Times profiled Sr. Susan and her prayer ministry.
To access the complete report, please visit:
The New York Times: Dear @POTUS: The Nun Who Tweets a Daily Prayer to President Trump (6 DEC 18)
Thank you, Deacon Greg Kandra, for the tip.
"As the millennium approached, however, Sister Susan, now 46, became interested in her Catholic roots again. 'I was in this high-powered career, but where I found all my joy in life was through my volunteer work,' she said. She began to see a connection between what was rapidly becoming her social mission and Catholicism.
"So she started to fill her weekends with church again.
"In 2005, Sister Susan got in even deeper: She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace religious order on the West Coast. It was around this time, she said, that she noticed other nuns praying for President George W. Bush and then, President Barack Obama. In 2017, two years after she had relocated to the St. Joseph headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Sister Susan decided to take her own presidential praying practice to the next level: Twitter."
A recent article in The New York Times profiled Sr. Susan and her prayer ministry.
To access the complete report, please visit:
The New York Times: Dear @POTUS: The Nun Who Tweets a Daily Prayer to President Trump (6 DEC 18)
Thank you, Deacon Greg Kandra, for the tip.
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