Long Island nun the worlds oldest at 112 shares four words of advice after a lifetime of service

There ain’t nun older than her.Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella, the world’s oldest nun at 112, has four words of advice for anyone who wants to match her longevity“Teach until you die,” Piscatella, who celebrated her birthday in late April, told The Post.Piscatella, who is enjoying her golden years on the South Shore of Long Island in her 94th year of service to the Catholic Church, said people should follow the good they’ve’ve seen from their loved ones.“You have to be a saint before you get to heaven.”Now living in Amityville’s Queen of the Rosary Motherhouse, Piscatella had a long journey of faith and fate throughout her years.“For some reason, God doesn’t want me yet,” the longstanding member of the Dominican order said.“I feel normal.

I never gave my age a thought, it just happened to be.”When she was just 2-years old and living in Central Islip, she lost her left forearm in an accident with a passing train — a life-altering event that Piscatella made the most of.“I was the second oldest of seven children.My mother wouldn’t let them help me because ‘you’re not always going to have your sisters, so you better just shape up and do things for yourself,'” she said.

“That’s what I did.Nobody really ever had to help with anything,” the centenarian added.Growing up in a large family of Italian immigrants, the calling to Catholicism came from the love she saw her family extend to the family and community.

Her father, a foreman with the Long Island Railroad, brought daily sandwiches his wife made for a worker who showed up routinely empty-handed at lunch, and her mother was known to frequently cook “a big Italian meal” for the nuns in town.Growing up in that environment, it became an easy call for Piscatella to join the order right out of high school, she said.“It was normal for me to help people, and I liked helping them,” the super senior said.However, finding a convent that would accept her with only one arm...