A unique love story is seen making rounds featuring the story of a nun and a monk, who after being in love for seven years gave up their monastic life to get married in the United Kingdom. Lisa Tinkler ,who has been a nun for 24 years was known as Sister Mary Elizabeth fall in love with Friar Robert, a monk , who came to visit her convent as per the BBC report .
According to BBC report ,since the age of 19, Ms Tinker was a nun at a convent in Preston, Lancashire, belonging to the Carmelite Roman Catholic religious order. In 2015, she met Friar Robert ,a Carmelite monk from Oxford who was visiting from a priory. As per the narration of their story, Lisa Tinkler went to check on him if he wanted anything to eat. During this time, Ms Tinkler they were all alone . Both of them never interacted before and she had simply heard him preach at mass during his visits to the priory.
But however, when Mr Robert was about to leave the room and he got up to leave, their sleeves brushed accidentally and it sparked an energy felt by Lisa. “I just felt a chemistry there, something, and I was a bit embarrassed. And I thought, gosh, did he feel that too. And as I let him out the door it was quite awkward,” Ms Tinker told told BBC.
Interestingly ,Mr Robert felt the chemistry too and they both started thinking about each other. A week later, Mr Robert sent Lisa a note asking her if she would leave the order to marry him. “I was a little bit shocked. I wore a veil so he never even saw my hair colour. He knew nothing about me really, nothing about my upbringing. He didn’t even know my worldly name,” she said.
But Ms Tinkler gathered the courage and revealed her feelings to the prioress who was in shock and diappointed not happy at all. The prioress was a little bit snappy with me, so I put my pants and a toothbrush in a bag and I walked out, and I never went back as Sister Mary Elizabeth,” she said .
However with the strength of their love both successfully created their own unique love story. According to the BBC, Ms Lisa and Mr Robert are now happily married and live in a home in the village of Hutton Rudby in North Yorkshire. The transition was quite difficult for them, but now they don’t regret the decision of leaving the Carmelites. Mr Robert received a letter from Rome saying he was no longer a member of the Carmelite order. Now, Ms Tinkler works as a hospital chaplain and Mr Robert has been made a vicar of the local church.
