{"id":14722,"date":"2012-05-08T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/?p=14722"},"modified":"2012-05-08T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T19:45:46","slug":"a-priest-and-a-sister-dish-on-religious-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/a-priest-and-a-sister-dish-on-religious-life\/","title":{"rendered":"A Priest and A Sister Dish on Religious Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a month ago, I asked you to send in your best questions to local Dominican Sister, Sr. Elizabeth Ann, O.P., of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.\u00a0 There were some great questions (and she gave some great answers, below).\u00a0 But, I thought it would be equally fun to ask some questions of our Diocesan Vocations Director, Fr. Brian McMaster, as well.\u00a0 He&#8217;s an Aggie graduate, so I knew he&#8217;d be a great interviewee.\u00a0 He did not disappoint and neither did Sr. Elizabeth Ann!<\/p>\n<p>On to the skinny about religious life.\u00a0 Ladies, first.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/a-priest-and-a-sister-dish-on-religious-life\/srea\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15410\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15410\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.austincnm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/SrEA.jpg?resize=241%2C268\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, visit them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sistersofmary.org\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><em>And, to bring us home, Fr. Brian McMaster.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15469\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.austincnm.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/a-priest-and-a-sister-dish-on-religious-life\/mcmaster-brian\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15469\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15469\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15469\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.austincnm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/McMaster-brian-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">courtesy of Diocese of Austin Vocation Office<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the\u00a0priesthood in the Diocese of Austin, visit the Vocations Office <a href=\"http:\/\/www.austinvocations.com\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Our THANKS to Sr. Elizabeth Ann and Fr. Brian for giving us a glimpse into religious life and sharing how we all, parents and non-parents, build up the body of Christ through our witness.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a month ago, I asked you to send in your best questions to local Dominican Sister, Sr. Elizabeth Ann, O.P., of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.\u00a0 There were some great questions (and she gave some great answers, below).\u00a0 But, I thought it would be equally fun to ask&#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/a-priest-and-a-sister-dish-on-religious-life\/\">[Read&nbsp;More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,90],"tags":[55,741,720,719,718],"class_list":["post-14722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog","category-faith-blog","tag-catholic-2","tag-dominican-sisters-mary-mother-of-the-eucharist","tag-parenthood","tag-priesthood","tag-religious-life","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12954,"url":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/meet-a-dominican-sister-for-lunch\/","url_meta":{"origin":14722,"position":0},"title":"Meet a (Dominican) Sister for Lunch!","author":"Kathryn Whitaker","date":"March 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"If you haven't heard the news already, the Diocese of Austin has an amazing group of nuns in town, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist.\u00a0 On Thursday, March 22, you have the opportunity to attend a luncheon and hear about their plans for Catholic education in our\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/category\/acnm\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.austincnm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/DSMME_2-224x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":42466,"url":"https:\/\/atxcatholic.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/2nd-annual-texas-womens-retreat\/","url_meta":{"origin":14722,"position":1},"title":"2nd Annual Texas Women&#8217;s Retreat","author":"Martina","date":"November 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Friends, you do not want to miss the 2nd Annual Texas Women's Retreat put on by my friends, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. 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