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My dream was that someday

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there would rise from this marker

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upon these grounds

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fine buildings

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like the great Benedictine abbeys

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built of the stone from this land.

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And within these walls

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higher education would flourish.

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And we would have a chapel

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for the beautiful ceremonies of the liturgy and the divine office of God.

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She was our mother, this mother scholastic accursed.

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She was ambitious for every one of us.

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But she had her way. I tell you, she had her way.

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In 1892, there were only 28 sisters who had come from St. Benedict's in St. Joseph, Minnesota

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to Munger Terrace where the community first originated in the Duluth territory.

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With Mother Scholastica, they began their work right in the center of Duluth or the old city.

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And it wasn't until later that Bishop McGalrick and Mother Scholastica

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selected the present site as the place for the mother house.

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It was right on the rim of the city, what was called the Daisy Farm.

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Acres and acres of wild daisies grew here.

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Before the turn of the century, the sisters used to have picnics on these grounds.

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Mother Scholastica's dream was that our community would build here.

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She saw it all happen before her death in 1911.

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We have much to do. What we will do will take courage.

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Praise God in the highest that we are capable of doing.

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May we help the sick and the poor, those who falter,

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and those who wish to know as we do the beauty and the mystery of this world.

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My dear sisters, use the precious time given you.

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It is selfishness that causes all troubles, with little exception, in the world and in the convent.

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May we in our lives be filled with the spirit of sacrifice.

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Pox, Phobiscu.

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I remember Mother Scholastica saying before she died,

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No sisters, don't be crying at my funeral.

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Sing your hallelujahs as you have never sung before.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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I remember the day I was born.

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The Hollywood nun is usually candy-coated.

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We call her the marmaladed sister.

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She is either too sweet or too stern.

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I wonder if anyone has portrayed us as we really are.

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Now, if I was to take your picture,

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you'd be just what you are.

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Here in the convent, I am myself a photographer.

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You really have no idea what it takes to get some of these snow and ice seams.

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I am a very simple, honest, sort of unsophisticated person.

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I must take things as I find them.

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If it takes me five hours to wait for the light,

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then I will wait for the light.

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If I have to go back the next day, I will go back the next day and the next day.

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But it must belong to its setting.

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Every part of it must be right to its setting.

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The New York Times

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When I think about it, I'd say there's great joy in our life.

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We share so many things.

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We share hardships, laughs, and sorrows, and friendships.

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We have common goals reached in many divergent ways.

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Some of us work in hospitals, some are teachers,

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some of us sing for a living, some of us paint for a living.

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We don't agree on everything, of course, except perhaps our final goal.

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And I think that's reached through great joy.

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Five groups of architects that were involved in the building

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wanted to leave some type of a group tribute to the city of Duluth.

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And so they asked me if I would design some decoration.

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So we decided to work in granite, which is an indigenous material.

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What I did was to make a small-scale model in clay.

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And I carved 20 separate blocks, a free-form shape,

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each one abstracting a water, rock, or tree form.

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These were indigenous products in our part of the country,

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also simple enough and strong enough to work into the simplicity of the building itself.

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The particular phase of cancer research that we're interested in involves immunity.

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We feel that immune mechanisms are important in cancer.

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It's going to be vital to try to build up a patient's defense mechanisms against his own cancer.

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We've been interested in finding out detailed metabolic reactions that occur during the cell

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when it goes from the absolutely normal state to the pre-bioplastic,

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up until the fully malignant state.

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We are interested in studying the cause of cancer by the study of intracellular metabolic changes.

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I felt that this was, without doubt for me, the area in which I could serve man best

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and the area in which I felt that I could attain my complete fulfillment and happiness by serving God.

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A few weeks ago I was going to Minneapolis.

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I no sooner got seated on the bus than a middle-aged man came and sat beside me.

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He began to talk quite freely.

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He asked about our work and he made the comment,

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I can appreciate what you're trying to do for the sick,

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what you're trying to do for those who are not educated,

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but I sure don't appreciate your social life.

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So I asked him, do you think that I have a life of restraint?

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Do you think that this is a choice that I've made that was wrong?

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He said, well, I suppose for you it's okay,

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but I can't see how you can't go out once in a while, live it upright,

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but I suppose for you, you're happy.

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We are so much in contact with a larger world than the institution to which we belong or of which we are a part,

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so that we can step outside and look at ourselves in a way that we weren't able to do before.

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This kind of sophistication, I think, makes for greater freedom.

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We are in a transition period and what has been more or less stabilized,

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these absolutes that were mentioned earlier, through hundreds of years,

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are not just going to give overnight,

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but I think we're beginning to see these structures less as ends and more as means,

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and this is going to take time, but at least I think there's a little more reason for optimism, perhaps.

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If in our institutions and in our church we do not find a tension existing between the ideas and the ideals we have

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and the reality which we are trying to meet and to serve,

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that there will be a deadening of our institutions,

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and I think that as long as we see the poles going in both directions, we are in a healthy state of tension.

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The term religious life is hard to understand at times.

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I mean, it seems so abstract.

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Everyone is called to holiness and lead a really good life,

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and married people and single people as well as us.

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Religious life, maybe community life, would be a better term, I think,

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because you are living a life in common with other people, with other women.

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Everyone should live a religious life in the sense that everyone should be striving to better themselves.

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People think that you're so out of it when you do enter.

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They just think that you're living such an uncommon life and what happened to her and everything.

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Didn't she have any days with Samara? Did you know what she was missing?

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Or they say, you know, if she would have tried just a little bit harder, she could have gotten married.

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The comments I think so many of us got when we entered were,

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we never expected you to enter or something like that,

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because maybe we were more outgoing than a lot of our friends.

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They just didn't expect that we'd want to enter the comments.

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Of course my father was there. This was a really big day for him.

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He took all kinds of pictures of us.

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I remember just before the ceremony, my mother said to me,

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this is your decision now.

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I think that's probably the very first time she ever said a thing like that to me.

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But she said, you've made this choice and I know you're happy here,

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and so you just live that life with all your heart and soul the very best you can.

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My brother, he was there that day too. He was so happy to be with the family.

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And I think he was real proud of me too because of the choice I made.

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The next day, the wedding was over.

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I was so happy to see my brother again.

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I was so happy to see my brother again.

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I was so happy to see my brother again.

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I was so happy to see my brother again.

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I was so happy to see my brother again.

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I was so happy to see my brother again.

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I was so happy to see my brother again.

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During the year, all of the other postulants and I have really looked forward to this day.

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We've talked about it and we've planned about it.

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The day of our reception, when our families would come,

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and we would all receive the Benedictine habit and our new name.

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We will start with that original our foundation.

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Sister Amata died about 40 years ago.

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But while she lived, the most remarkable things happened.

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She hadn't had much schooling, so she wasn't bothered by signs that said,

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She hadn't had much schooling, so she wasn't bothered by signs that said,

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No trespassing.

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Don't enter here. Stop.

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She just barged on ahead.

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Well, Sister Amata was, we think, among the very first to get out and bring aid to the lumberjacks and help the poor.

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Incidentally, she even sold medical insurance.

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She went out to the lumber camps and told the men they could buy dollar certificates.

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That would entitle them to medical care in our hospitals.

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She even shared the lumberjacks' diet, conducted their funerals.

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The lumberjacks loved her.

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Sister Amata died 40 years ago.

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Sister Amata, our lumberjack nun.

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There is much need for service in the world.

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What we're seeing right now is a movement of the nun into the world of service outside the environment of the convent and the convent schools.

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The nun is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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She is a woman.

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We've always served in the hospitals.

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There was a time when practically every little hospital in the northern Minnesota wilderness towns was staffed by Benedictine nurses.

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I suppose you could say we moved into the world a long time ago.

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Let us stand with our voices.

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We're on a victory!

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We're on a victory!

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We're on a victory!

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We're on a victory!

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We're on a victory!

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We're on a victory!

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We're on a victory!

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We're on a victory!

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Well, I've had Benedictine nuns all the way up to into high school now since kindergarten up to my senior year.

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If I have a nun teaching me and I've had her long enough, she just does something that makes me say,

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well, I can discuss something with her, I can say it openly, and I'm not afraid to,

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because she's just right in there along with you.

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She's not just there to teach you, she's there to be with you and help you.

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After the semester break, I happened to meet one nun, and it seemed like I had only known her maybe one week,

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and I was actually discussing things with her that at times I can't even feel free to discuss with my parents.

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She really needed a sense of security and knowledge, and she gave you some self-respect when you talked to her.

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Every teacher I've had at the cathedral seems to point out the fact that the purpose of the sisterhood is a commitment to her fellow man.

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They show love by making me seem worth loving, and they make me see that I have the potential for loving others.

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Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy.

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And our hope is to get out of the womb.

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We bless you, we bless you, we worship you, we adore you.

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We give you rest for your recovery, Lord God have the key.

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Father of our King, Lord Jesus Christ,

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You'll be brought inside, Lord God have the strength of fire.

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You take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

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You take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer.

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You sit at the window of the mercy of God,

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with the Holy Spirit in the glory of God, the Father of men.

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I was out at our old people's home.

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Well frankly, I was right down flat on the grass, shooting a little thing that I had found.

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And several women went by and actually what I expected them to say was,

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now isn't that some position for a sister, you know.

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But instead they stopped and they said, don't make any noise, sisters pray.

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I can't take people out with me when I'm photographing because I can't have their interpretation of things intruding upon mine.

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I think you have to remember that each person has their own concept of how they want to do something.

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But each person must say what he wants to say in his own way.

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Maybe it won't be nearly as good as the way somebody else would say it, but it's true to that person.

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Say now I find a little flower or a piece of rope or a piece of grass, it doesn't matter, I'll take anything.

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I just can't have people intruding upon it or I'm going to lose my way.

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Love and fortitude, it takes both of these qualities to teach the little ones in our care, for they have energy running out of their ears.

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They're open, honest, straightforward, good, bad and sometimes even indifferent and tired.

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And we love them.

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Heart, in, off, all together.

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Look at the book now. Look at the second one. You have how many dots and all.

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We love them, we love them.

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They're beginners who teach us the meaning of beginning.

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Love is like a ring, a ring that has no ending.

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Love is like a ring, a ring that has no ending.

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There are some who think that the Benedictine way of life calls merely for teaching and the domestic work, for hospital work, our traditional work.

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However, St. Benedict was a man of his time. He would be in the vanguard today.

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And I know that we're perfectly safe in interpreting his holy rule to mean that we should do all kinds of work which Vatican II calls for,

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which means we serve the people of God in any capacity in which we are needed with love.

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The land to me is, well, it's God.

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It is part of his great creation.

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I say that I enter the woods maybe with a spirit of great reverence.

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I, sometimes when I'm down on my knees working on some little tiny weed or flower, I see that I cannot create what I photograph.

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I can only select one little thing and do the very best I can to present it to the world as something God has made.