Faith Through Fiction: Storybooks, Manga, Movies, and Vampires

In today’s episode, Sr. Orianne Pietra René and Sr. Julie Benedicta are joined by Sr. Allison Regina, and talk some of the fictional stories they’ve encountered that helped them to know the Lord in a new or deeper way. Then they remembered that Sr. Allison Regina has written fiction with God in it, so they put her on the spot and asked her about that experience.  

1.    Check out our Nuns React video about Moana: https://youtu.be/ZtK7EMbdF_0

2.    Visit Sr. Allison Regina’s page on our website and learn more about her books for kids and teens: https://pauline.org/staff/sr-allison-regina-gliot/

A Storyteller’s Prayer

Loving Creator God, you have made me in your image and have given me a share in your own creative power. You have given me the awesome call to listen deeply and to gently hold and nurture the fragile breath of inspiration.

Allow a new understanding of truth and beauty to come into being in me. Work in me as I decisively shape and mold intuition into words and stories.

Teach me how to nurture this gift of creativity, and to believe that you want to work through me. Slow me down so that I can listen attentively. I trust that you will inspire me, guide me, lead me.

Jesus, Master Storyteller, you who are the very Incarnation of the Father’s being, help me to image the mystery of God and of the human person in what I write. You used the power of image, story, and proverb to communicate the freshness of your message. May my storytelling—whether spoken, written, or visual—open the human soul to the sense of the eternal. Let everything I write celebrate the wonder and sacredness of human life, uplifting those who will hear, read, or see what I write.

Holy Spirit, illumine me from within; give me new vision; fill my heart with your freedom and my decisions with your energy. Stir up my creative intuition and give me the courage to write honestly and deeply, past all fear.

Make of me a prophet, speaking your truth with freshness and relevance. May everything I write contain a glimmer of your beauty.

Make of my stories and, above all, the story of my life, masterpieces that reflect your glory. Amen.

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