Sister, Why Are You Dressed Like a Muslim? w/ Sr. Natalia

[Music] this espresso is really delicious thank you yeah yeah i like the cups too yeah if someone brought these shout out to mike welker and uh cindy welker who brought me four cups for my birthday ah when was your birthday he gave me nothing well i don't know when anywhere it was july 16th oh you've never given me anything for my birthday when's your birthday does it matter no because i was still you're not even a good friend you don't even know my birthday when is it april 12th okay is it a feast day of course it's a feast day somewhere in one of the calendars it was pasca last year oh wow yeah i mean yeah 2020. why do you look like a muslim woman that's a good question it's more so that the muslims look like us so um so so this was the the traditional eastern habit um before it was the traditional muslim ware um so you have to ask them yeah why do you look like sister natalia yeah who is sister i'm sure they'd love to hear that question yeah what kind of comments do you get you know i i don't think i don't think as many people mistake us for muslim as you would think um i think part of that is because of the chaki on our belt people think it's a rosary um and so they the rosary is not an eastern tradition so as as you know matt um so it's not a rosary but the but we do have lots and lots of other devotions to the theotokos everybody's shaming you in the comments before before all of the comments about how sister natalia hates mary please know we do love mary very much and we in fact pray to her more in than you do shut up um that's not what i was going to say that was your those were from your mouth not mine um but are you looking for the shaming comments yeah there's none other thing yeah they'll come though don't worry that's why youtube come boxes exist yeah absolutely um so so anyways the i don't think we we don't get it as often as you would think but at the same time i'm sure there are lots of people who think it and simply don't say anything um but see even if it doesn't look like a muslim dress it doesn't look like a stereotypical nun dress right so what kind of things do people say so sometimes sometimes the comment um when people come up to us they say what are you and i'm like a human being what are you a rude human being um so so no we get that a lot what are you um and we also get sometimes the are you um what is the do you and then we usually just say i'm a nun and um sometimes i'll say i'm a catholic nun just to kind of clarify but the best um the best response i had that barista that i was talking about earlier um in in whole foods um she was she was very enchanted by the habit um and anyways she said um once she realized i was a nun she was like she was like that's punk and i was like all right great and that's what it takes to be punk in a day and age where everybody's rebelling against all yeah norms and customs and she said something about she was like yeah i knew an orthodox priest one time and he also wore the black jab i was like yeah black drab that's what i wear yeah so yeah but we do get we get a surprising number of people who um who instantly recognize that we're nuns um and they might they might ask for for clarification but their assumption is that we're a nun yeah and and that can be just really really we we get very few negative reactions once they know that we're nuns uh i think that probably happens a lot more with priests than it does with nuns but um it's overwhelmingly positive but it's it's part of the reason that i that i love that we wear the habit is because i'll have people come up to me in the grocery store or the doctor's office or because we always wear this you know um and even on my home visit when i'm with my parents and stuff i'm wearing the habit and so we'll we'll just get people come up to us in these random places and they say are you a nun and i'll say yes and then they just pour out their heart and and just like the depths of their heart and um and sometimes they'll share like places of shame or just these places they need prayer or they and and it's it's so humbling because i know it's immediately clear that this isn't this isn't about me right like they have no idea who i am but to them like i'm i'm a bride of christ and so they're speaking to me as a bride of christ as someone who has as far as they know an intimate relationship with the lord and and they're they're entrusting their heart to me and that's very humbling because again i know it has nothing to do with me they don't know they don't know me from from adam um from eve and so um so it's a really beautiful thing did you tell me you grew up in colorado i i'm most recently from colorado i've moved over 20 times but most recently i'm from colorado yeah uh my dad was in the navy cool for 20 years my dad was in the navy too respect yeah um what is it like for your parents the first time you came back dressed like that did were they proud of that do they think it was a bit weird how did your friends and acquaintances react um yeah those are very those are different questions um the my parents my parents are thrilled they're uh i mean they're just super supportive really really beautiful people um my dad's my biggest fan um but he uh they so so they're both really happy with it um they i'm sure it was hard i think i think it wasn't i don't think it was a big transition for them for me wearing the habit um i i'm sure it was hard for my mom um that i had a new name simply because like she's the one who named me this is the name that she gave me you know um so i'm sure that was a little difficult uh but they yeah they're they're just thrilled and they've it's never been it's never been weird for them or a question for them of like um well why like why can't you wear your normal clothes when you're at home or anything like that like they just are super respectful of it and um yeah so that's been easy and with uh um do you bump into people from school or they used to work with and like oh wow you look very different to me yeah it's pretty shocking for people who knew me when i was in college um no it's it's happened um it's happened a couple times um but but not often i think that um for the most part the people that i see now are the people who knew me when i was discerning so it wasn't really it wasn't totally shocking so beautiful if you like that clip be sure to like and subscribe cheers

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Length: 6min 51sec (411 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 22 2021