What is your full Sister name?
Sister Viv Acious

Date you joined the order?
Declared Aspirancy - July 18, 2010
Elevated to Postulant - September 19, 2010

Elevated to Novice Sister - January 16, 2011
Elevated to Fully Professed - August 28, 2011

What is your lay occupation?  
In my other life, I am the Learning Management System Administrator for a health career vocational college in Southern California. I get to work from home in my PJs and slippers. I have also been a practicing medical and sports massage therapist since 1993; working in massage therapy education since 1996.

Date of birth?  
May 10. Taurus, Baby!

Home town?
Vallejo, CA

When did you discover your calling?
As a massage therapist, I had found a way to contribute to the greater good by teaching others about safe, consentual touch and positive body image and wanted to find an extension to that. My initial calling happened about 4 years ago, when I was considering joining another order but it was not quite the right time for me. In 2009 and 2010 I starting meeting all these wonderful people from the Russian River area that I immediately fell in love with. It just so happened that these people were Sisters; BONUS! I watched them work and minister to the community and was in complete awe and admiration or what they were doing to make the place they live in better for EVERYONE.I really wanted to be a part of that. I attended my first Bingo in July, 2010 and declared Apirancy the very next week at the GM.

Big Sisters/Mother in the order?
My Big Sisters are Sister Sara Femme and Sister DeManda Refund, but I consider everynun a big sister that I can learn so much from!

Why did you join?
There are times in your life when your heart tells you that you are where you need to be. I listened...

Religious beliefs (if any)?
I am a solitary practitioner of the Wiccan religion, Blessed be!

 

Goals and aspirations?  
To be the best nun I can be and to be of service to anyone who needs me. I want to be a role model for people of size; to empower them to be all they can be in their fluffy fabulousness! I would also like to work with families recovering from chemical dependency and survivors of sexual abuse, as they hold a very special place in my heart and soul.

Quotes ...  
"You see things as they are and say, 'Why?' But I dream of things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" – George Bernard Shaw

"Love is as love does." – Dick Innes

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." – Margaret Mead, Anthropologist

"Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love." – Martin Luther King, Jr.