tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post5243470985517502316..comments2024-03-19T11:13:40.642-07:00Comments on A Different Perspective: The Roswell Nuns - AgainKRandlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06333125414889883920noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-71028117670822520602015-12-28T11:38:17.002-08:002015-12-28T11:38:17.002-08:00The question of what two nuns might or might not h...The question of what two nuns might or might not have seen on that night in 1947 aside, I'm wondering about the use of the word "diaries." The nuns running St. Mary's Hospital were Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother, a Franciscan order. Franciscan nuns of the modern era do not, as a general rule, keep diaries unless ordered to write something about their spiritual life by their superior. They do not keep a diary in the sense that we think of writing down daily activities. Possibly the hospital had a day-book logging patient information/administration details. The convent might also have kept a chronicle of activities and significant events, which might have been sent to the Motherhouse for safe-keeping. Whether the nuns' lights would have been included in such a chronicle is also very much open to debate: the focus of such writings was on the convent, its inmates, and events. It was usually written in a brief, time-line format and always with an eye to the service of God. Here is a list of locations of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother's ministries. Roswell is not among them--this is a website updated as of 2015, by the way--but many Catholic hospitals no longer have nursing orders running them.Chris Woodyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14428651554202989448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-62832681016750946922015-12-24T09:07:48.364-08:002015-12-24T09:07:48.364-08:00Good work on this one, Dr. Randle, and to all"...Good work on this one, Dr. Randle, and to all": Whatever you believe in, or celebrate, I hope this Holiday Season finds you well, and brings you much peace and happiness.<br /><br />/BobBob Kofordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01739226809252915992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11558306.post-71097667678769086872015-12-23T09:50:47.968-08:002015-12-23T09:50:47.968-08:00Hi Kevin,
Ok agreed.
Your mea culpa does seems t...Hi Kevin,<br /><br />Ok agreed.<br /><br />Your mea culpa does seems to have overshadowed sites who present the tale uncritically.<br />It wasn't always that way.<br /><br />Lance<br /><br /><br />Lancehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17280922104955532058noreply@blogger.com