A Change of Habit: A Spiritual Journey From Sister Mary Kateri to Sister Mary Vodka - Revised Edition

"The arduous journey of this teenage girl to womanhood is a profound story containing lessons for all of us." - Walter D. Serwatka, retired chairman of the board, MacMillan-McGraw-Hill
A Change of Habit recounts a spiritual journey that started when a religious eddy hurls seventeen-year-old Patty into a convent in the 1960s. Her deeply embedded guilt drives her to obey the Catholic Church, please her earthly father, and say yes to her heavenly Father. But in the convent, she fails to find happiness in religious rites and rules. Her time there parallels changes wrought in religious life by Vatican II, including changes of names and attire. After leaving the convent following seven years of service, she assumes she can pick up her life and move on. She was wrong.





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