'Keeping the Faith (http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Lisa-Ling-Goes-Inside-a-Convent is a report Lisa Ling(Oprah Show correspondent) shares while she visited the nuns of Dominican Sisters of Mary, a thriving convent outside of Detroit.The show went live at the Oprah Winfrey Show on Feb 09,2010. The report reveals contradicting elements pertaining to rules at the convent.
Marriage is an important issue in the Christian life.The book of Gen. 2:18, 21-24 tells us:
'It is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him'...and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh.
Then the Lord made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man.' For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
The excerpt clearly explains that marriage is God's idea.It gives a clear indication of companionship and intimacy between a man and a woman. So why can't nuns get married?
Further, the report left me thinking about cloistered nuns praying for 12 hours a day (is that how we find salvation?) The rules and regulations they follow in the convent (are they in accordance to what the Bible has to say?) and their vows (would they guarntee a ticket to heaven?).I t somehow gives me a vague picture that there is so much to do before judgement day.
The relationship between God and man is divine.The relationship can be maintained only if one abides by what God wants and not by what society has to say. At the end of the day He decides who will go to heaven and who will not. It is therefore important to learn to communicate to him. By what means? You decide.
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