Mother Natalia

Nice leading question, Matt.

Yeah, so I'm part of a Byzantine Catholic monastery, so we are Eastern Catholic.

And I think a lot of people, well, more and more people these days are becoming familiar with Eastern Catholic, but...

We have similar traditions, mostly the same traditions as Eastern Orthodox, but we're in communion with Rome, we're under the Pope, we're Catholic.

A Roman Catholic can go to a Byzantine Catholic liturgy and it would fulfill their Sunday obligation and vice versa and so on and so forth.

So this is the traditional habit that you would see an Eastern Christian nun wearing.

So in the West, there's all sorts of different religious orders that are designated by their different types of habits.

But in Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism, this is it.

Is that correct?

Correct.

Yes.

We don't have orders traditionally.

So we don't have initials after our name in our community.

We're not Franciscan.

We're not Dominican.

We're not Benedictine.

We're just monastics.

Yeah.

And how many people know that you're a Catholic nun?

None.