Sister Efner- Falling Into Darkness Because Of ... (2024)

They found her at dawn, huddled behind the main altar, rocking back and forth. She was muttering a single phrase over and over: "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" — "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

Her defining virtue: absolute trust . Her fatal flaw: absolute trust . Sister Efner- falling into Darkness because of ...

It began in the autumn of her sixty-first year. Sister Efner had always spoken to God as one speaks to a beloved friend—in the quiet hours of Lauds, while scrubbing the refectory floor, or kneeling before the tabernacle. She received His answers in the rustle of wind through the chapel oaks, in the unexpected kindness of a younger nun, in the deep, cellular peace that followed the Eucharist. They found her at dawn, huddled behind the

The silence curdled into action one rainy Thursday. A young postulant named Sister Anne came to her for counsel. The girl was struggling with a secret—she didn't believe in the Real Presence in the Eucharist. She was terrified, ashamed. It began in the autumn of her sixty-first year