Nuns On The Run……From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…. Â
by Bernie Bell - 09:05 on 15 September 2025
Nuns On The Run……..
I copied this from Matthew Manning’s Facebook page…..
“NUNS ON THE RUN! THREE SISTERS ARE SPRUNG FROM HATED OLD PEOPLE’S HOME
Three Austrian nuns have defied the church in Salzburg to return to their former convent home. Sister Bernadette, 88, Sister Regina, 86, and Sister Rita, 82, insist they were wrongly placed in a nursing home in December 2023.
Now, the three have broken into their former rooms at the Kloster Goldenstein convent in Elsbethen. As the locks had been changed, they regained entry with the help of a locksmith, and former students from the convent school.
“I was always homesick at the care home,” said Sister Bernadette. “We weren’t asked and had the right to stay here until the end of our lives. And that was broken. I have been obedient all my life, but it was too much.”
The three nuns are settling back into their former home. Electricity and water connections have now been partially restored, supporters are bringing food and groceries, and they have been seen by doctors.
The Archdiocese of Salzburg insists that the building is no longer suitable for the nuns, and that they received “essential, professional, and good medical care”, at the nursing home.
The three nuns have spent much of their lives at Schloss Goldenstein, a castle which has been a convent and school since 1877 and Sister Bernadette attended the school in 1948.
It continues to operate as a mixed private school with former students saying the nuns have “changed so many lives in such a good way”.
There is a steady stream of visitors, many of whom are their former students. Ex-pupil Sophie Tauscher says: “Goldenstein without the nuns is just not possible. When they need us, they just have to call us and we will be there, for sure.”
In a statement the Archdiocese said the nuns’ decision to return to the convent was “completely incomprehensible” and an “escalation”.
The nuns say they are much happier serving one another tea and plum dumplings than being at a nursing home.
“Before I die in that old people’s home, I would rather go to a meadow and enter eternity that way,” said Sister Bernadette.”
After a life-time of service they were bundled off to a Home. Good for them, breaking out.
“.....essential, professional, and good medical care” isn't all that matters in life.
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1320855212729902&set=pcb.1320855246063232
I can see this story being made into a film – I’d watch it!
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine….
by Lutz Stautner
“I like to see these sounds that I’m recording as a form of language, and so for me these are stories that the ice is telling.” —Ludwig Berger
In the trickling, creaking, and gurgling heard by the hydrophones and contact microphones of sound artist and composer Ludwig Berger, we hear the voice of the Morteratsch Glacier in Switzerland. Directed by Lutz Stautner, this short film follows Ludwig on one of his many visits to the glacier where he records its inner sounds and textures, which are by turns wondrous and sorrowful. Although the pop of bubbles releasing centuries-old oxygen and the crack of buried ice announce themselves as complex and alive, Ludwig reminds us that these sounds are only so loud and active because the glacier is dying. By lowering microphones into the body of the glacier, he discovers the intimacy of listening to more-than-human voices, and invites us to bear witness, too, to the last cries of a glacier.
https://emergencemagazine.org/film/crying-glacier/ “
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Something about ice…..
https://theorkneynews.scot/2020/05/30/a-strange-approach-to-a-true-tale/
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