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SISTER MARY PERPETUA MUNDT (Perp, 55) has for 15 years been the Novice Mistress at St. Monica Convent, accountable for the formation of Barnabian postulants and novices.
The second of eleven children in a hard-working but overbearing German-American family, Sister Perp was born Mary Edith Mundt on a family farm near Martinsville, Indiana. She grew up wearing secondhand clothes inherited from older cousins, tattered hand-me-downs that were ill fitting because of her height and large size. Sleeves were always too short on her, and jeans never fell below the bottoms of her shins.
As the eldest girl, Mary Edith worked hard helping her despotic mother raise her brothers and sisters – cooking, cleaning, and washing – often not getting to bed until long after midnight. Intelligent and conscientious beyond rational measure, she tutored her siblings in all subjects, being especially fond of drilling them in spelling. Following the example of her tyrannical mother, Mary Edith ruled her younger siblings fiercely, often whipping them with a horse bridle to garner prompt obedience to her directions.
Mary Edith escaped the drudgery of farm life by telling her parents that God told her in a dream to go to church. Whenever she could, she spent extra time in St. Catherine’s parish church, on occasion kneeling for so long that her knees would bleed. Drawn to St. Therese of Lisieux both for the holy woman’s ascetic disposition and for her sexual qualities, Mary Edith had a picture of Therese in orgasmic passionate rapture prominently displayed near her bed.
As she grew older, Mary Edith found that she was attracted not to the boys in her grammar school class, but rather to the girls. She found herself without warning staring at their breasts, and thighs, and buttocks, and wanting to touch all of them. Whenever she could, she pretended to bump into, or brush up against a nubile classmate in the hallway, and then touch her on the shoulder with an apologetic, reassuring, “Oh, excuse me.”
Mary Edith began to masturbate habitually, even excessively, in whatever locations she could secret herself. The privy was one of her favorite self-trysting venues, as was the janitor’s closet at school, but most often she snuck into one of the confessionals at the back of St. Catherine’s parish church and used elongated peeled vegetables to pleasure herself.
She did not dare approach another girl about having sex (although she was consumed with fantasies about doing so), because she had read in the Bible that such acts are an abomination and that such sinners will be damned to hell for all eternity. Moreover, she was afraid her would-be paramour would tell on her. Vegetables tell no tales.
Mary Edith was determined by all means to avoid hell for all eternity. To combat the carnal desires that flooded her head nonstop she decided to enter St. Monica Convent at 15, taking the professed name Sister Mary Perpetua. Immediately, she plunged herself into a regime of self-denial, harsh penances, and self-punishment. She brought with her from the farm a riding crop and used it to flail at her back and buttocks and thighs. Abbess Andrew once reprimanded her for flagellating herself so mercilessly that she blacked out.
During Sister Perp’s novitiate, the then Novice Mistress, Sr. Mary Peter, repeatedly forced her to stand naked at rigid attention with hands clasped together in prayer. Sr. Peter would then gently caress the young nun’s massive breasts to test the candidate’s resolve to resist erotic temptations to enjoy the touch of another woman. Sr. Peter would complete the sacred ritual by sprinkling Holy Water on the novice’s vagina and anointing her clitoris three times with Holy Oil. Sister Perp came to despise herself for her Lesbian yearnings – yet a pretty girl will still turn her head and get her ticker pumping.
Sister Perp is tall and large, a Valkyrie on steroids, with black eyes. The sleeves of her Barnabian habit fall only to the lower forearm, and her lower garment drapes only to the lower shin, leaving exposed her laced-up high top black leather nun shoes and calf-high black cotton socks. Overbearing, obsessive compulsive, and uncompromising, she uses spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical intimidation to keep postulants and novices toeing the line of the Barnabian rule. Her riding crop is encrusted with both old and fresh blood, as well as tiny chunks of flesh. She is haunted by her Lesbian longings repressed by four decades of structured self-denial and well-practiced self-mortification.
