February 25, 2012

• Oscars!

  

  You know, I haven’t watched the Oscars since I was in high school. My sister loved watching them and since we only had one TV in the house, we all had to watch it or find something else to do.

  This year I will at least watch the red carpet stuff, and perhaps I’ll watch the rest of it if Billy Crystal is on his game (man is he hilarious!). But this year I have a good reason to watch; one of my friends will be attending:

  

  But that was taken years ago when she was a rising starlet in Hollywood, famous for resembling Grace Kelly and for giving Elvis Presley his first on-screen kiss; in fact she had to kiss him a few times because both of them were so shy they blushed and make-up crews had to come in and hide it!

  

  At the height of her promising career she felt a deeper longing in her heart that only God could satisfy, and so she left it all behind and entered a Benedictine convent on the East coast.

  Now she is Mother Dolores Hart, OSB

  

  She and I have been penpals for a few years now, ever since I heard about her, and she’s been such a good spiritual friend and, really, a spiritual mother for me. I am hoping to finally meet her in person this summer, God-willing!

   

  This year there is a short documentary about her life that has been nominated for an Oscar, and she plans to attend. She is the only nun that is a part of the Academy so for the past years you’ve been watching the Academy Awards, she has seen those movies and cast her vote (don’t ask me how she voted this year; I never asked!). So when you see a nun walking that red carpet Sunday night, now you know “the rest of the story,” as the late Paul Harvey would say. 

  Please root for my dear friend, Mother Dolores!

   

  Here’s a good article about it all: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/oscars-2012-mother-dolores-hart-elvis_n_1279731.html

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