God is love and therefore we should be love

Mary Ellen Plumb, OSB '71 tells interviewer Jenn Bokoch Gillett, "And toward the end of the sixties, they were beginning to protest the Vietnam war. Now, my friends and I had gone to protests against the Vietnam war because of my friends who were there or who had died there. But these women were doing that because they believed it was the just thing to do. And so I began to see one more aspect of being a Benedictine, and that was to speak to the injustice in our world. Now, again, I'm articulating it better now than I could have then. I just knew it was something I wanted to be part of....And I had come out of high school in that fervor of the sixties, wanting to change the world like I wanted to make a difference. And this group of women was already doing that."