Mother Delores Hart walks the red carpet again

Mother Prioress Delores Hart, O.S.B. made an appearance
at the Oscars last night. "God is Bigger than Elvis" - a documentary
about her turn from Hollywood to the Monastery was nominated.

Mother Delores Hart - it wasn't the name on the movie script, but it's been her name for 49 years after leaving Hollywood to become a Benedictine nun. Last Friday, we interviewed Mother Delores Hart - O.S.B., former Hollywood starlet whose life inspired a documentary that was nominated for the Oscars this year.

 It was absolutely enchanting to speak with her, as you can imagine. Her nostalgic and warm way of speaking about her happy days before entering the convent, her convicted passion for her life as a Benedictine...it was the perfect interview. She warmed my heart in a way that I can't explain. Anyway, this weekend, she made her appearance on the red carpet, much to the delight of popular media. The New York Times actually reported this morning that she presented at the Oscars in 1959! Can you imagine leaving that life to become a cloistered nun? It's something people in our day have a hard time imagining, but Mother Delores told us of a Hollywood that was much different from today's. She was actually quoted in a newspaper telling the story of how she and Elvis used to break open the bible every day before they went on set! Who knew that Elvis was a bible geek at one time.

Listen to her interview on Daybreak with TJ and Rachel. Make sure you scroll all the way down to see it.

What a beautiful role model of holiness and authenticity! For Mother Delores, she had to say goodbye to Hollywood to say yes to the Lord. What do you have to say goodbye to? We all have little "Hollywoods" on our life. Is God trying to tell you, that maybe, he is bigger than those things?