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Mother Dolores Sullivan, OCD, just learned she’ll be leaving the Carmelite monastery she has called home for more than 55 years in less than a month.
“I feel brokenhearted,” Mother Dolores, 98, the original prioress of Mother of God Monastery tearfully told Catholic San Francisco after a Candlemas Day Mass Feb. 2. “The Lord is giving us a whole new beginning.”
Her sisters at the San Rafael monastery have tried to shield the frail-but-attentive 98-year-old nun from the full weight of their worries after a degree of closure was issued to the monastery last May. The Vatican’s Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life cited dwindling new vocations as the cause of the closure. The complications of moving four aged nuns into group housing or another monastery in the midst of a pandemic were acknowleged in a moveout date of March 1, 2021.