Sister Festivus Illuminata stands in a church entryway.
Sister Visa DeKline
Sister Tora Wholes

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The Vancouver Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a 21st Century order of Queer nuns who believe in spreading universal joy and expiating stigmatic guilt.

Sister Festivus Illuminata is an ordained Minister and sanctioned to perform and solemnize marriages in Canada.

"We the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence present our message of joy and acceptance to the greater community as something that deals with the natural aspirations of the human heart and spirit. We all know that words are so important. We have all heard it said that there is power in the spoken word. We have experienced the fact that words can hurt and words can heal. Sister Festivus has come to believe that Sisters must be wordsmiths. To use words to ravish people with the beautiful reality that he or she is unique and special and that no prior hurtful, unkind, insensitive words, events or any particular individual should take their power and ultimately make them feel any less vital than any other human being."  ~ Sister Festivus Illuminata