By Brian Ojanpa
Free Press Staff Writer
MANKATO
April 28, 2008 12:25 am
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Sister Kathleen, nee Kathy Ravn, is clear about this: She misses nothing about her former life and has no misgivings about her decision to become a nun at the age of 55.
Her epiphany came 10 years ago, when she asked herself the same question Peggy Lee famously did in song.
Is that all there is?
“I had a new car, a nice house, but that was all I had,” Ravn said.
Moreover, her bookkeeping job was sucking her under with 60- to 70-hour work weeks at a struggling farm co-op in Blue Earth.
A decade later — the requisite “discernment” period for becoming a nun — Raven is ready to take her final vows May 10 at the School Sisters of Notre Dame Mankato Province motherhouse in Mankato.
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Kathy Ravn of Wells heeded her calling to become a nun a decade ago. “I had a new car, a nice house, but that was all I had,” she said of the spiritual yearning that fueled her decision. John Cross