I got a note from my friend Father Charles Sikorsky, L.C., president of the Institute for Psychological Sciences. He described being inspired by a nun who attended the institute summer pastoral program. As he said, she was “the real deal.”
Turns out there is an interview with the “real deal” nun on the National Catholic Register website. It starts out like this:
Sister Olga of the Eucharist Yaqob, an Iraqi-born archdiocesan hermit in the Boston Archdiocese, is co-director of the Catholic Center and the Catholic chaplain for Boston University.
Raised in the Assyrian Church of the East, she founded its first religious order for women in 700 years. However, her love for the Rosary and daily Mass — practices that departed from her Church’s tradition — forced her departure from the order and her country. She came to the United States at the end of 2000, completed a graduate degree in spirituality and counseling at Boston College, and began reaching out to students at Boston University. The university’s Catholic chaplaincy is now the largest in New England, with 700 attending weekly Mass, 15 to 20 in Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults programs, and a number of graduates pursuing a religious vocation.
After that, the interview gets really interesting and inspiring. See the rest!
