Now Hiring Online: Nuns

Cloistered nuns of Santa Chiara exploit the Internet with the aim to find new vocations. “Seclusion is an extraordinary world yet to be discovered”: this is the excerpt of the message that the Portici nuns are spreading to the outer world. This cloistered order was founded in 1310 in Naples by the Queen of Maiorca Beata Sancia as “a safe haven for young Neapolitan girls willing to give themselves to the Lord in a life of hiding, silence, prayer and offering.”

Santa Chiara nuns are seeking new vocations and they are acting through the Internet, a new media for the Santa Chiara cloister. The thirteen nuns are now using the Internet to spread the word, with the aid of all the priests from Naples. “Please, explain who we are and what we do,” they say in their message to pastors and to the world, “And let the people discover about our lives in prayer, seclusion is an extraordinary world yet to be discovered and unfortunately we can’t help you in accomplishing this task.” Portici mother abbess, Nunzia Emanuela, a 61-year-old cloistered nun, talks about her cloister life. The mother abbess live with thirteen nuns; they work from dawn ’til dusk, they pray and help the elder sisters (two of them are more than 90 years old). “We are understaffed in a big cloister,” so the idea came to light: why shouldn’t they use the Internet to find more sisters? [more]

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