I was recently listening to a radio interview with Sr. Sue Cosgrove, formerly of Jerusalem / Hiruharama on the Whanganui River, New Zealand (a place I have visited only once) and I wanted to record what Sister Sue described as the “philosophy of life” of 95-year old nun Sr. Anna Maria Shortall, also, until recently a member of the community at Jerusalem.
“Live in the reality of the moment, and do it lovingly…”
- Sister Anna Maria, Sister’s of Compassion, New Zealand.
You’ll find the podcast of the 12th July interview here. Details of the documentary mentioned in the interview – How Far is Heaven – can be found here.
An aside - A moment of serendipity (in relations to living “in the reality of the moment”) was this post (Moot Community, London) on “mindfulness” (a practice that has become more important to me over the last 2-3 years), which I read not long after listening the interview and being struck by Sr. Anna Maria’s philosophy of life.
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