Long Island nun — the world’s oldest at 112 — shares four words of advice after a lifetime of service

There ain’t nun older than her.

Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella, nan world’s oldest nun astatine 112, has 4 words of proposal for anyone who wants to lucifer her longevity

“Teach until you die,” Piscatella, who celebrated her day successful precocious April, told The Post.

Piscatella, who is enjoying her aureate years connected nan South Shore of Long Island successful her 94th twelvemonth of work to nan Catholic Church, said group should travel nan bully they’ve’ve seen from their loved ones.

“You person to beryllium a saint earlier you get to heaven.”

Now surviving successful Amityville’s Queen of nan Rosary Motherhouse, Piscatella had a agelong travel of religion and destiny passim her years.

“For immoderate reason, God doesn’t want maine yet,” nan longstanding personnel of nan Dominican bid said. “I consciousness normal. I ne'er gave my property a thought, it conscionable happened to be.”

When she was conscionable 2-years aged and surviving successful Central Islip, she mislaid her near forearm successful an mishap pinch a passing train — a life-altering arena that Piscatella made nan astir of.

“I was nan 2nd oldest of 7 children. My mother wouldn’t fto them thief maine because ‘you’re not ever going to person your sisters, truthful you amended conscionable style up and do things for yourself,'” she said.

“That’s what I did. Nobody really ever had to thief pinch anything,” nan centenarian added.

A blessed life

Growing up successful a ample family of Italian immigrants, nan calling to Catholicism came from nan emotion she saw her family widen to nan family and community.

Her father, a foreman pinch nan Long Island Railroad, brought regular sandwiches his woman made for a worker who showed up routinely empty-handed astatine lunch, and her mother was known to often navigator “a large Italian meal” for nan nuns successful town.

Growing up successful that environment, it became an easy telephone for Piscatella to subordinate nan bid correct retired of precocious school, she said.

“It was normal for maine to thief people, and I liked helping them,” nan ace elder said.

However, uncovering a convent that would judge her pinch only 1 limb successful 1931 proved challenging, and Piscatella had to physically show that her disablement would not beryllium a hindrance to service.

She only recovered her measurement into nan Dominicans acknowledgment to different nun seeking a alteration of scenery and leaving a school position successful nan void.

“The leader said, ‘Well, tin she teach?’ And nan sister said, ‘Oh, she’s a awesome teacher,” said Sister Francis Kammer, Piscatella’s adjacent friend, erstwhile student and roommate for 45 years.

“And he said, ‘Then she stays.’ And she ne'er looked back.”

Piscatella taught from her bosom connected each sorts of subjects, from mathematics to history and arithmetic, while moving successful administrative roles since that fateful time astatine property 17 — until she was 84.

“Well, I don’t want to brag, but I was a beautiful bully student successful everything. I was a bully coach because I was school myself too. I was knocking it into my ain head,” said Piscatella, who spent overmuch of her tenure astatine Dominican Commercial High School successful Queens and Molloy College successful Rockville Center, on pinch respective New York City schools.

Nowadays, Piscatella enjoys heavy dream and relationship pinch God while mounting an illustration that’s being adored by nan Catholic organization connected Long Island — galore of whom she celebrated turning 112 with.

“She accepts nan will of God. Her full life, I ne'er heard her kick astir anything,” Kammer said.

“She had a encephalon bleed 11 years ago, and they thought she was ne'er going to locomotion again and ne'er going to talk again. She accepted it, and present she is stepping and talking.”

Piscatella — said she is happy she “can still think” astatine her precocious age.

“I could still teach, aliases astatine slightest I deliberation so,” Piscatella said.