We grew up across town from a Benedictine abbey and when I was small, the nuns said the mass in Latin. We used to go sometimes on Sunday mornings. I recall the nuns hovering around in their black habits. It felt spooky and magical—the Latin, the costumes, the floating eyes.
After mass we’d linger while the Benedictines traded their habits for overalls a…
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