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Sr Gemma Simmonds CJ

Sr Gemma Simmonds CJ

Nun Girl Summer: what young women are really looking for

Sr Gemma Simmonds CJ August 27, 2026
Nun Girl Summer: what young women are really looking for

I have been a religious sister for a long time, and I thought I had a fairly good sense of which conversations would surprise me. Then a young woman in her late twenties recounted in a post her recent return from her first silent retreat, and that it had been ‘the most genuinely restful thing…

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