Mon Sep 18, 2023 – 7:58 pm EDTMon Sep 18, 2023 – 4:59 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) –– Imagine being the biological sister of a saint. That would be interesting and a blessing enough. Now imagine being not only the sister of a saint, but for a time also a religious sister in a convent founded by a saint!
My guest today on the John-Henry Westen Show, Sasha Keyes, may one day be able to claim precisely that. She joins me today to discuss Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster from her time as a nun with the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, as well as her late half-brother, Fr. Kenneth Walker, FSSP.
Keyes recalls meeting Sr. Wilhelmina when she joined the Benedictines of Mary, back when they were still the Oblates of Mary in the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania. Sr. Wilhelmina was hand-picked by the bishop of that diocese to establish the order after a couple of nuns told him about their desire to establish a new order to help the nascent Fraternity of St. Peter.
When she first joined the convent, Sr. Wilhelmina had Keyes ironing the sisters’ habits. Describing Sr. Wilhelmina, she recalls especially her character.
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