Photo gallery: Prayerfully Popped
Nuns of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration are launching a gourmet popcorn business this week.
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Sister Lucia Anne Le stands ready to add in the cheese flavoring to a mixer as she makes a batch of the chedder cheese flavored popcorn at the Prayerfully Popped retail store located at 1525 North Wilmot Road. The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration have endured are trying to raise money to keep their historic monastery operating and make much needed repairs. They have decided to make and sell gourmet popcorn.
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Sister Joan Ridley, second from right and Sister Lucia Anne Le, far right, watch as the popcorn gets mixed with a chedder cheese flavoring at the Prayerfully Popped retail store.
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Sister Kathleen Gorman, left, and Sister Ramona Varela work together to package the popcorn.
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Recipes for different flavored popcorn hang on the wall in the kitchen for easy viewing at the Prayerfully Popped retail store.
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Sister Lucia Anne Le mixes around the freshly popped popcorn as it falls out of the popper at the Prayerfully Popped retail store.
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Gourmet popcorn sits in containers waiting to be packaged for sale at the Prayerfully Popped retail store located at 1525 North Wilmot Road.
Sister Lucia Anne Le of the Benedictine Monastery of Tucson got a new job last week. She traded in her sewing needles - after 15 years of making custom vestments at the monastery - for a greasy, noisy popcorn machine.
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