Tweeting with @digitalnun (Sr Catherine Wybourne)

“A nun on twitter?” - who  would have ever heard of such a thing! , but in this day and age it seems that there are so many ways to spread the Word of God, including that of social media. Sister Catherine Wybourne is one of the Benedictine nuns from Holy Trinity Monastery who has been blessed with being a “web developer” as one of her “community duties”.  She writes on her twitter profile that she is “keen on God, books and technology”. She “likes people too” and blogs at www.ibenedictines.org.  Sister Catherine Wybourne often recommends the community website, http://www.benedictinenuns.org.uk/ as a useful source to answer any questions one might have about their community in East Hendred, although occasionally other questions not included on the website may be asked via an email form on their website. However, It was through twitter that I was given some advice—to read Regula Benedicti in Latin as translations are often “interpretations”, and in discussing languages, Sister said, “Mother M. Xavier is an accomplished Hebrew scholar, I believe” - which intrigued me since I always wanted to learn more languages, including Hebrew and Greek, as well as improve my Latin which is not good at the moment. The last time my friends and I tried to tell our Economics teacher in Latin that he had shed light on a curved graph, we accidently said that he was a “wonderful circle” and he only laughed and said, “yes, I do need to sort out the weight problem!”. Although funny, we don’t fancy that again!