Why not follow Sister Elizabeth Pio? On behalf of the Sisters of Bethany, an Anglican order who spend hours each day in silent reflection, she has started tweeting!
Watch a video interview here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-18620474
She said: "It's great that we can communicate with an online community, most of whom we'll never meet."
Sister Elizabeth said: "We recognised that social media was how people often communicated these days, so it made us have a look at it.
"We're still trying it out, really, and it is a bit of a learning curve."
Follow: @bethanysister
She is not the first member of the Church to try tweeting... an Anglican Bishop tweeted his pilgrimage around his Diocese last August: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-14431784
Her tweets have been prayerful and also commentary on the recent England football match. She tweeted: "The Sabbath was made for man, but was it made for professional football matches.......? God won, England out!"
Read more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-18590242
Do you think that this is a good way for clergy and the religious to engage with an 'online generation'? Would you follow a Bishop or nun? As Sr Elizabeth said: "It's important to show that nuns and monks can use current technology - we're not so far behind the times."
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