By Carol McKinley/Denver Gazette
Sister Assunta rejoiced over the anomaly of a single egg laid in the heat of the afternoon.
“Look! It’s a miracle! One straggler just for you!”
The 33-year-old North Face cap and rubber-boot wearing Benedictine nun was a “success” story in another life. The Baylor graduate was once on a traditional path with a steady boyfriend and a promising career as a program coordinator for an Austin, Texas nonprofit.
But when her boyfriend proposed, she did a stunning about face and committed to a cloistered life as a Benedictine sister.
“I had a mysterious longing in my heart to be a nun,” she explained.
Sister Assunta declined to divulge her former name as if that person never existed.
For their first interviews since before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Abbess of St. Walburga allowed The Denver Gazette into their bubble for a day.