New Reality Show Follows Young Women Thinking About Becoming Nuns - East Idaho News
Arts & Entertainment

New Reality Show Follows Young Women Thinking About Becoming Nuns

  Published at

Thinkstock 112514 Rosary?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1416934423573Don Bayley/iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Reality meets spirituality in a reality show that debuts Tuesday night about a group of young women thinking about becoming nuns.

The new Lifetime show The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns follows five young women leaving life as they know it behind as they consider taking the sacred vows and becoming nuns. The young women are in what’s called the “discernment phase,” where they live alongside nuns to figure out whether they’re ready to put their faith above everything else.

“Women don’t enter with halos. They don’t come in holy,” one nun said in a preview of the show. “God called them from where they are, and they all come from different backgrounds. It will be very difficult.”

“Difficult” meaning no boyfriends, no cellphones and no makeup, which the young women visibly struggle with on the show.

“Religious life can be difficult, especially if you’re running away from something,” the nun said. “We do have certain expectations of dress, that it certainly be modest, and that includes your makeup.”

One young woman in the preview cries over this realization, saying, “But we can’t have any makeup? I never even talk about my acne to anyone. It’s something that’s so personal. You don’t understand when you look at yourself, and you’re so scared that people aren’t going to see you.”

Another young woman confides in a nun that she feels “broken.”

The Sisterhood: Becoming Nuns premieres Tuesday night at 10 p.m ET/PT on Lifetime.


Copyright 2014 ABC News Radio

SUBMIT A CORRECTION