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The sisters and brothers (not shown) of the Jerusalem Community in Montreal worship regularly together.
Three Jerusalem Community sisters go for a bike ride near downtown Montreal.
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about God and concerned about the immensity of suffering and injustice in the world. She joined the Quakers, later the Adventists, then an evangelical church, and on to an Episcopal community. Almost by accident one day she attended a Catholic Mass. At the moment of consecration she had a sudden realization that Christ was really there. “The experience just blew away my mind,” Kelly says. She became a Catholic in 1994 and after searching for a community where she could combine deep prayer with service to neighbor she stumbled upon the Jerusalem Community on a trip to Florence, Italy. “It was love at first sight,” she says. Kelly entered the community and was transferred to the Montreal foundation in 2006. As she rides to McGill University on the Montreal metro subway in her long blue habit and white cap-like head veil, Kelly is occasionally mistaken for a Muslim woman, which sometimes gives her an opportunity to explain herself and her work. At the school she hurls herself into a full range of activity including spiritual direction, teaching classes on apologetics and Pope John Paul II’s theology of the body, and organizing Bible studies, days of reflection, and travel opportunities. Because she and a lone priest are the only Catholic campus ministers, Kelly says, she is not above washing the dishes or cleaning the floor. Like her, all community members work in some outside craft, trade, or profession such as information technologist, leather artisan, office secretary, nurse, even house-cleaner. Their job schedules
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