Are you interested in how a funny, sporty, charismatic, well-read, modern woman might want to spend the rest of her life shut up in a traditional, enclosed order of nuns, spending most of the day in silence (when not praying in plainchant)?
If you are, then The Joy of God, a new collection of writings by Sister Mary David, goes a long way to answering that question.
Michele Totah, “Mickey” to her many friends, was the last sort of person you might expect to choose a life of religious confinement on the Isle of Wight, as she did for her last 22 years. This sparky American embraced a life that radically rejected all the exciting possibilities of the secular world for a talented young woman.
