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Nuns Lift The Lid On What It’s REALLY Like To Be A ‘bride Of Jesus Christ’ – From How They Choose Their Sister NAMES To The ‘surprising’ Things They Do For ‘fun’

Two nuns have lifted a lid on what it’s really like to be ‘brides of Jesus Christ,’ spilling on everything from what it’s like to leave their families behind and why they get new names to how they get by despite not making any money.

Sister Mary Grace and Sister Marie Veritas, who are members of a Catholic religious community known as Sisters of Life in Denver, Colorado, recently sat down to answer the internet’s most burning questions about nun-hood in a series of videos shared to YouTube.

They broke down some of the ‘sacrifices’ they’ve had to make for the lifestyle – like not getting to see their loved ones as much as they’d like and having to live off of people’s donations – but explained why it’s still worth it to them despite the things they’ve had to give up.

They also opened up about why they never get lonely despite not being allowed to have a partner – since they’re in a relationship with Jesus – and gave a glimpse into what an average day looks like for nuns.

Two nuns have lifted a lid on what it’s really like to be ‘brides of Jesus,’ spilling on everything from what it’s like to leave their families to how they get by despite not making any money

Sister Mary Grace and Sister Marie Veritas (seen), who are members of a Catholic religious community in Denver, recently answered the internet’s most burning questions on YouTube

When one person asked them, ‘Do sisters really marry Jesus?’ Marie explained, ‘Yes, we do. It’s true. It’s beautiful and amazing.’

Mary added, ‘I remember being in an airport once and a lady said to me, “I feel really bad for you, I wish you could get married.”

‘And I was like, “You know what? Actually, I am [married].” We’re here because we’ve fallen in love with Jesus.

‘Jesus has called each one of us in a particular way to belong totally to him and he satisfies every element of the female heart and soul.

‘It’s a promise that he makes and we experience it. My desire for marriage is actually met in Jesus and he fulfills it more than I could have ever imagined so it’s legit.’

Mary explained that they don habits – the modest ensembles nuns are famous for wearing – to let the world know they’ve wed Jesus. She also revealed that most nuns also wear wedding rings.

‘I’m a bride of Christ. I’m married to Jesus,’ Marie said. ‘This is my wedding dress. I get to wear my wedding dress every day, it’s such a privilege.’

Marie explained that the habits are also ‘a sign of poverty’ because nuns don’t have money to ‘go shopping’ like others do.

They broke down some of the ‘sacrifices’ they’ve had to make for the lifestyle – like not getting to see their loved ones as much as they’d like and having to live off of people’s donations

They also opened up about why they never get lonely despite not being allowed to have a partner – since they said they’re in a relationship with Jesus

‘There are my clothes – I don’t go shopping, I don’t go to 5th Avenue in [New York City],’ she continued.

‘We actually make our habits in our community, so it’s a sign of real poverty and totally belonging to the Lord in every day.’

When asked how nuns make money, the women explained that they don’t earn an income and ‘rely on God’s goodness and people’s donations’ for food and anything else ‘they need.’

‘That’s actually how we as Sisters of Life live have our funding,’ she shared. ‘It’s really beautiful.’

Mary called it ‘surreal’ to be ‘totally dependent’ on others to get by, adding, ‘It’s vulnerable and risky.

‘But you see God more clearly in people when you have a space for people to provide and you actually need them. It’s really beautiful.’

When someone asked when sisters retire, they revealed that they never stop working because being a nun isn’t a ‘career,’ it’s ‘who they are.’

‘When you enter religious life you don’t make any more money, you don’t have a career to build other than your call to love,’ Mary added.

‘You give the entirety of your life to it, so in some ways we retire when we enter into the convent.

‘Being a sister isn’t about what we do, it’s who we are. As individual sisters we’re called to belong entirely to Jesus and we begin living the identity for which we’ve been created for. That doesn’t have an expiry date.’

When it comes to the ‘sacrifices’ they’ve had to make, Marie said that seeing their families a lot ‘less’ is difficult, but insisted that despite the ‘separation,’ being nuns has ‘deepened their relationships’ with their loved ones.

‘We do see our families less, we’re not texting or call them all the time so there’s definitely a separation and that’s a sacrifice,’ she said.

‘But there’s a deepening of the relationship. It’s like when a woman gets married and goes to live with her husband, she’s not living with her family anymore.

‘It’s similar to us. We’re married to Jesus, so we live in his house, we live with him.’

Mary interjected, ‘We step away from our families to enter into a larger family because with God, it’s always more, there’s a greater good he’s doing it for – even in the mystery of the sacrifice he’s always inviting us to do things to bless us.’

The sisters explained that they all live in a community together, and each home has its own ‘chapel.’

‘A lady said to me once, “I feel really bad for you, I wish you could get married.” And I was like, “Actually, I am [married].” We’re here because we’ve fallen in love with Jesus,’ Mary said

Mary explained that they don habits – the modest ensembles nuns are famous for wearing – to let the world know they’ve wed Jesus

‘It’s like Jesus lives with us,’ gushed Marie, while Mary added, ‘It’s such an honor.

‘The chapel is like the heartbeat of our home, everything flows from there. Our whole life is stabilized around the chapel – it’s the first place we go in the morning and the last place we go at night.

‘We usually go there in the middle of the day to pray, like we tap in and check in with Jesus throughout the day because he’s really the framework and the stability of our lives.’

According to the nuns, each day is different since although they ‘have a schedule that they live by,’ Jesus often ‘takes over’ and changes their plans.

‘I don’t think I’ve ever had a boring day. It’s surprising how rich our lives are,’ Mary revealed.

‘Every day is so different even though we have a schedule that we live by. We get up at 5am every day and head straight to the chapel and do morning prayer together.

‘Then there’s usually a mass in our Chapel then we have a couple of hours where we do our mission that’s entrusted to us.’

Their missions involve ‘evangelization’ and ‘serving pregnant women in crisis pregnancies.’

They also ‘walk with women who have suffered the experience of abortion’ in a bid to teach them ‘the true tender and infinite mercy of God.’

‘That is such a privilege for us sisters to not only live our life with Jesus but to see Jesus bring life to the people in which we serve,’ Mary added.

‘We kind of spend our day doing that, broken up by times of prayer. It’s rich.

‘Every night for an hour after dinner we have a protected time to literally just be together – we can play card games, sometimes we just sit around and enjoy each other’s company, we share joys and sorrows, play music, go for walks.

‘We hiked a mountain yesterday. The biggest surprises of religious life is how fun it has been. Receiving the gift of friendship and community life are definitely unexpected gifts too.’

Marie and Mary said they don’t have ‘personal’ cellphones but are allowed to have landlines and can use the ‘mission-shared’ cellphones if needed.

They also revealed that they get new names when they become nuns.

When a viewer asked how they were picked, Mary explained, ‘God literally put a new name on my heart very simply and clearly.

‘As simple as that, he put this name on my heart and I knew that he was calling me to imitate the blessed mother in a certain way. It’s a mystery but God literally gives it.’

‘It’s really special. It really comes through prayer. It’s pretty awesome,’ Marie shared.