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The Catholic Talk Show

Why Would A Women Become A Catholic Nun?

The Catholic Talk Show

Ryan Scheel, Ryan DellaCrosse, and Fr. Richard Pagano

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Catholic Talk Show, the guys are joined by Sr. Tonia Borsellino to discuss why women discern the religious life, what it's like inside a convent, and what happened when her entire convent got Covid-19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everybody welcome back to another episode of the Catholic talk show today we have a very special episode we are going to be interviewing our first none ever

0:10.0

well not a nun a religious sister and we're going to explain the difference between what a nun and a religious sister is.

0:15.2

We're also going to be talking with sister Tanya Borsalino about the discernment process and why a young woman would want to become a religious sister.

0:24.0

And as you can see we don't have Father Pagano with us this episode, so let's take it away. I'm going to do. All right? This is a this is a show of first right we have our first religious sister welcome sister

0:55.4

sister Tanya Borsalino of the Mercedes sisters in Cleveland Ohio

1:00.4

welcome and it's also our first episode without Father Pagano.

1:05.0

It is, we are filming this on his birthday.

1:09.2

And so we have given him reprieve from his duties here, but it's going to be okay. We've got a really great show lined up for you today.

1:19.0

All right. So yeah, sister, thanks so much for joining us and you know, we've known each other for a couple years here.

1:27.0

You know, Ryan and I work with the Mercedes sisters of the Blessed sacrament.

1:31.0

One of my

1:33.9

if there's anything in all of the Catholic faith that I had the soft a spot in my heart for it's

1:39.1

religious sisters I absolutely love religious sisters.

1:42.6

They've been so impactful in my life

1:45.3

from being very young and being educated

1:48.5

by religious sisters to having aunts and great

1:52.1

and who are cloister nuns or religious sisters.

1:56.3

Everywhere I go I gravitate to them and it's because they're so joyful they provide so much to the church

2:06.4

and we haven't had a chance to talk to our audience about that so be willing to take that opportunity and explore that a

2:11.1

little bit so sister thanks for joining us why don't you tell us a little bit. So sister, thanks for joining us. Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?

2:15.0

Sure, I'm sister Tani Pousilino, like the Ryan's introduced and I'm what's called a novice.

2:20.0

So I'm not even, like I haven't professed yet God willing on August 15th. I will be professing my first vows

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