208: Why Sr. Natalia Became a Nun
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
4.8 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 97 minutes
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In this episode of Pints with Aquinas, I chat with my dear friend, Sr. Natalia, who is a Byzantine nun. We talk about what it's like to be a religious sister.
WARNING: In this conversation, we get real, real quickly.
If you're a young woman discerning God's will in your life, then this conversation is ABSOLUTELY for you. Or if you're someone who just loves conversion stories about people radically loving Jesus, then you're going to LOVE this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | G'day and welcome to Pints with Aquinas. |
| 0:03.7 | My name is Matt Fradd, and today I'll be joined around the bar table by my good friend |
| 0:08.1 | sister Natalia, who is a beautiful young Byzantine nun. |
| 0:14.3 | And we talk about what it's like to be a nun because I don't know, never had the chance |
| 0:17.9 | because the church is sexist. |
| 0:20.9 | It's a joke, not a good one, but it's a joke. |
| 0:27.1 | This is a fantastic chat that we just had. |
| 0:30.6 | If you're a young woman to a certain religious life, this is going to be very helpful to you. |
| 0:34.3 | Or if you're just someone who loves conversion stories and hearing about people who radically |
| 0:37.4 | love Jesus, this will be an amazing conversation. |
| 0:41.8 | We get real, really quickly. |
| 0:44.0 | One of the things I try to do at Pints with Aquinas is break people out of the sound bites |
| 0:47.1 | and just have real discussions about being a flawed human who is trying to love Jesus by |
| 0:53.4 | his grace. |
| 0:55.3 | Maybe you're a young woman who's discerning religious life, but you're like, I struggle |
| 0:57.9 | with pornography from time to time. |
| 0:59.9 | Or that's a part of my past, and I'm not sure what that means. |
| 1:03.9 | Am I just trying to become a religious sister so I'll look holy because I've got all this |
| 1:08.1 | baggage? |
| 1:09.3 | We have all sorts of motivations when discerning things like this, marriage as well as religious |
| 1:13.4 | life. |
| 1:14.4 | We get into a lot of that, and it was just really great. |
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