As of Sunday, 22 March, the Pirita convent has a new prioress, Gennarina Puttampura O.SS.S.
Prioress Gennarina has previously lived at the Pirita convent, from 2010 to 2017. She came to Pirita from Turku.
She was born in India in 1983. She began her religious vocation as a novice in 2000 in her home country. However, she made her first religious profession in 2002 in Rome, at the motherhouse on Piazza Farnese. After that she was assigned to Naples and from there on to Finland, and she made her final religious profession in 2008 at the Birgittine convent in Turku. In Turku, where the Birgittine Sisters’ convent is located and operates today, there are currently 9 Sisters. The convent likewise lives its daily life of prayer and runs a guesthouse, as the Pirita Sisters do in Tallinn. She currently has Finnish citizenship because she has lived in Finland for a long time.
In Estonia, however, she plans to begin studying the Estonian language immediately. Since she has lived here before, she knows the nuns here and also knows many people.
She is very happy to be able to be back in Estonia again. It is nice and peaceful here.
She certainly wishes to continue the convent’s previous activities at the Pirita convent and for the convent always to be open to those in need. She also wishes that the Church would be one, as Christ wished that we would all be one in God. As a special intention, she highlighted praying for peace. And the new prioress’s message to us is precisely to be an instrument of peace in Estonia and to pray much for peace in the world.