POVERTY, CHASTITY & DISOBEDIENCE
“Insightful, delightful, and revelatory.”
Susan Mattern had no problem with most of the vows when she entered the convent. Poverty was easy. She didn’t have any possessions, joining the convent directly from high school. Chastity was no big deal since she hadn’t ever met a boy she liked. But obedience? That was a problem, especially when the rules made no sense.
Sometimes humorous, often serious, this is the truthful account of her attempt to become a 19th-century nun in a twentieth-century world while the rest of her age group experimented with drugs and sex.
Motherhouse for the St. Louis Province
“Poverty, Chastity, and Disobedience by Sue Mattern is insightful, delightful and revelatory. Each chapter is a story of Mattern’s experiences in religious life in the late 1960’s, a time of incredible change in the Roman Catholic Church.”
“The depicted daily life of a religious postulant is sometimes shocking, and you find yourself rooting for the author and her partner-in-crime Pam to find a way to break out of their monotony and exert some individuality.”