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This Mother’s Day, Meet The Nuns Who Pray For Weary Moms At Midnight

When a viral post mistakenly described midnight prayers as ‘motherhood hour,’ the flood of responses that followed exposed a need in the hearts of moms everywhere.

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The Norbertine Canonesses of the Bethlehem Priory of St. Joseph are cloistered religious women whose midnight prayers sparked a viral, global response — and opened an unexpected window into the quiet suffering of modern mothers.

In 2023, Leanne Bowen, a Catholic artist, arrived at the priory for a self-guided retreat.

In an interaction with one of the canonesses assigned to aid her, Bowen came to understand the midnight prayer on her schedule, the traditional Matins, as a sacrificial offering for mothers. She posted about the experience on Instagram, and the story quickly went viral, triggering a flood of outreach, and the sisters’ reputation as holding a “motherhood hour.”

The Matins — prayers, hymns, psalms, and other scriptural readings incorporated into the Divine Office of the Catholic Church, and sung traditionally in the dark hours of the night leading into a new day, can be prayed in late afternoon or evening hours, but the Norbertine canonesses rise for the liturgy at........

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