Mother Natalia

How old was I?

College?

Oh, 20.

Yes.

I don't remember how old I was, but I remember what year it was.

So I just did some math.

What did you miss?

Is it things and devotions that you... Like what did I miss about the West?

Yeah, because I understand that in the East you can still pray the beautiful, obviously.

But there's something to be said about going all in, right?

And so you might put aside Western traditions and adopt Eastern ones.

Were there traditions or prayers from the West that you missed?

Well, there is something I thought of.

My first response was going to be, I didn't miss anything.

But to be honest, that's not because I think there's nothing to miss in the West.

It's because I was so poorly catechized that I wasn't really immersed in the richness of the West when I became Eastern.

So if I had been, like I know one of the nuns in our community, she deeply missed a lot of the, a lot of, she missed the Western office of ours.

And so,

I don't actually know if that's what it's called.

I think I just conflated words.