Knights on Bikes<\/a>, this is also a first.<\/p>\n“It’s gratifying for me to be able to help that experience become a reality,” said Mendez. “My wife normally rides with me, but I’ve never had the opportunity to have a nun, someone closer to God behind me.”<\/p>\n
Wagner and the other sisters are trading in silence for the sound of the Nun Run. The ride will cover 41 miles from the convent on Lipes Boulevard all the way to the Spirit Center near Bluntzer a place where youth can disconnect from the world and reconnect with God.<\/p>\n
“Yes we are all on a spiritual journey, this little trip of 41 miles kind of reminds us what our life is about and what our goal is,” said Wagner.<\/p>\n
Director of the Spirit Center, Amy Clark, says she was looking for a creative way to support that goal and she found it.<\/p>\n
“We were piggybacking off an idea from some sisters in Houston, and we wanted to create an idea, that would create some fun, and some fundraising for operations, but also a sense of community,” said Clark.<\/p>\n
The ride is about more than just miles on the open road. It\u2019s a journey with a purpose.<\/p>\n
“As the sisters get older they don’t have the opportunity to get out in the community anymore, to create this idea where the community comes to them, create fellowship,” said Clark.<\/p>\n
“We don’t usually have a chance to ride a motorcycle. I haven’t ridden a motorcycle for 50 years, and the sound makes it even more exciting. I’m hoping they might have one with a side car but I don’t mind riding one of those, it looks safe,” added Sister Mary Paul.<\/p>\n
For the sisters, it\u2019s a chance to express their faith in a whole new way.<\/p>\n
The Nun Run<\/a> kicks off Saturday morning from the Convent of the Incarnate Word & Blessed Sacrament on Lipes Boulevard. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m., and all participants will be treated to a pancake breakfast at the end of the ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might have seen motorcycle clubs before but not like this. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Some local sisters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-37323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}