Catherine Coldstream
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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differences between us were meant to be eliminated and that extended to other areas of the life you weren't supposed to talk about anything about your own identity from before you'd been a nun that would be in any way likely to sort of set up set yourself up as different or special or to trigger any sort of envies or rivalries so you were subsumed into this new identity and
And I think the fact that you all wear the same clothes was just a way of making everyone, trying to make everyone as equal as possible, which was a great idea.
Of course, in reality, groups of people are never equal.
That's a really good question.
It certainly changed.
Yes.
I think when you start out, it's all a matter of aspiration.
You know, you want to be a bride of Christ.
I mean, it all goes back to this thing of before you've actually even crossed the threshold, you somehow or other fallen in love with this whole idea of, you know, you might have fallen in love with the monastery, you might have fallen in love with the idea of monastic life.
But
You know, strange though it may sound to people, on some level he had fallen in love with God.
You know, it was an obsessive vocation.
And I think that all-consuming desire to get closer to God, it goes really deep once you really sort of go with it.
We had this idea that, you know, for us, Jesus was a real person and he was the embodiment of perfect love and, in a sense, the answer to all our deepest desires.
And we wanted to be united with him.
So there was a sort of analogy in romantic love that is a really ancient tradition in the Old Testament and as well as in the New Testament, whereby God is kind of the spouse, the lover of the people of Israel or the community of the faithful.
However, it's conceived the Song of Songs in the Old Testament is all about this.
And of course, the Song of Songs was, you know, largely based on ancient marriage ceremonies from other cultures, Assyrian or Mesopotamian or Egyptian.
I can't remember, but I mean, I think it had drawn on other ancient cultures.
It was basically a text for celebrating a marriage between man and wife.
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