A Portrait, A Story...

After Sister Victorine's funeral, there was a luncheon for all the people who came to the service.  It was held in the Mother House, and the nuns who live there were having their lunch as well.  Two of the nuns sat down at our table and I started a conversation with one.  This is Sister Annunciata.  We talked about a number of things, then I asked her when she knew for sure that she wanted to enter the Convent.  She said it was in her later years in High School. Then she told me a story.  She had a math teacher named Sister Rita when she was in the sixth grade.  Sister Rita was one of Sister Victorine's sisters, and everyone loved her.  When Sister Annunciata was talking with her mother about her decision on the Convent, her mother said "When you were in Sister Rita's presence,  there was a light that came into your eyes..."