EWTN To Air 'Interrupted Lives: Catholic Sisters Under European Communism'
"Interrupted Lives" is a one-hour documentary that explores the plight of Eastern-rite and Latin-rite Catholic Sisters under Soviet domination from the end of World War II to the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. EWTN will air this important film at 10 p.m. ET, Friday, August 5.
Filmed on location in Ukraine, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary, and the United States, these sisters' lives offer powerful testimony of their deep faith and courage. Undeterred by the evil forces surrounding them, they continue to live their commitment to religious life.
These "Sister Survivors" tell about losing their convents, schools and hospitals almost overnight. Many endured imprisonment, exile to Siberia, forced farm and factory labor, and work in mental institutions. Large monasteries, and, in one country, a castle, became concentration convents where sisters from different congregations were housed.
Included in "Interrupted Lives" are interviews with "secret sisters:" those women who entered religious life during the communist period and lived out their vocations underground.
You will not want to miss this important documentary!
Go to http://www.ewtn.com/wings/2011/08042011Feature.htm to view a snippet of this documentary.
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