At the Easter Vigil Mass, the nuns throw off our black copes as we joyously begin the Gloria. One year in our early days, we had an audience . . .

The burning question of three vocation candidates from Chicago in the 1950’s was about the plumbing situation of the rural Alabama monastery. Did the answer reassure them?

Recently our archdiocesan Vocation Director interviewed Sister Mary Jordan, discussing our Dominican charism and our monastery's particular history, and how Sister herself ended up following God's call to be a Dominican nun here in Marbury. Watch the interview here.

Sister Mary of the Rosary was our first vocation to enter and persevere after our monastery was founded in 1944. This post shares some about her vocation story and life as a nun.