

November 2018 Lyn's Pic
Young Nuns 1991 - acrylic on canvas - 22 x 28”. I could also title the painting “Mother of Perpetual Help and Marilyn Monroe”. Let me tell you why. Back in the early 60”s, I was a nun in the Novitiate at Mount St. Joseph in London, Ont. The Novitiate was a two-year training period in which we young women were learning about the spiritual life of prayer and meditation. We were not allowed to have any contact with the ‘outside’ world. Every summer afternoon we would gather for