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[MargaretTeresa]

Yes, this belongs here.

So, last Wednesday I led the first Fierce Female Saints Study over fro-yo before our Catholic Campus Ministry meeting. On our way to the CCM meeting, I accidentally let slip about my discernment (well, they wanted to know how I have so many nun friends).

Now they are referring to my discernment and "top 3" list (which constantly shuffles) as my "Bid Card." --> I did mention they're sorority girls, right? <-- And they have the idea that once I figure out where I'm to end up that they will have a nice little "trousseau party."

When you told your friends you are discerning, did they have weird/silly/funny reactions?

[HopefulBride]

hahaha. My friend's baptist husband wants to throw me a bachelorette party (and he's not kidding!!) of course it's not the same, he envisions mass, dinner and watching saint movies.

I have a couple of friends who want to go on a pilgrimage as some sort of bachelorette party.

At least they're supportive

[juchu]

One of my best friends presented me with a self-made, fabulous, wonderful three-story wedding cake for our goodbye party! (Since we all who shared a house had to move out, I did not want to have a special goodbye party, but celebrate with my friends)

And out of marzipan she had modeled a nun that resembled me with the habit And put right on the top. So everybody who did not know that I was going to the convent, knew it! (since there were ppl as well that I did not know soo well, since they were friends of my friends, etc.)

That was really crazy!! She spend HOURS in the kitchen!!

[FutureCarmeliteClaire]

Haha, well, my friends think I'm crazy, but I've been told some really sweet things by grown-up ladies at my Parish. I always said at my big goodbye thingy, I'll put on "Single Ladies" and "Can't Touch This", the two perfect songs for a future religious.

[Lil'Monster]

Haha, well, my friends think I'm crazy, but I've been told some really sweet things by grown-up ladies at my Parish. I always said at my big goodbye thingy, I'll put on "Single Ladies" and "Can't Touch This", the two perfect songs for a future religious.

MC HAMMER'S U CAN'T TOUCH THIS??? oh yeah!!

[FutureCarmeliteClaire]

MC HAMMER'S U CAN'T TOUCH THIS??? oh yeah!!

YUP, sis!

[Lil'Monster]

YUP, sis!

[Lisa]

Lol, MT. Too funny!!!

This isn't about how they reacted to finding out, but how they view it in an everyday sense: http://gaudebo.blogs...-roommates.html

[BigJon16]

My friends all started calling me "Padre" and what not. To this day, I am still referred to as Padre Dude in some circles.

Other than that, my brother says that he is going to take me out and get me super drunk before I enter Seminary. I'd like to say that it wont happen, but it most probably will... hahahaha

[elizabeth09]

Family know that one day I might be a sister. Not my friend, yet. I will tell her once I gone thought everything and get accept as a postulancy.

Edited by elizabeth09, 04 March 2012 - 09:36 PM.

[marigold]

I like the idea of a Bid Card

My friends' reactions were pretty weird and funny in an expected sort of way. I had a few chastity jokes, and a lot of questions about the freedom to leave. (Actually the range of reactions really brought home what living in a post-Protestant culture does to you - if Christianity was what they think it is, I certainly wouldn't be a Christian...)

And then I lost a whole bunch of friends. I guess they just found it too much to get their heads around. But one of them, the least likely in a lot of ways, stuck by me like nothing else, and has become my best friend. She's a radical socialist feminist - but she brags to her friends about me! So that's been the weirdest, but for all the best reasons. Love trumps.

[i<3LSOP]

My friends took me seriously. I wish they hadn't... it would have been funnier but whatever.

[TheresaThoma]

My one friend simply asked me when I told her "So will you still be able to sew my wedding dress if you enter?" This came from the fact that I have promised to make her wedding dress when she gets married. I told her I could probably work something out.

Most of my friends are the reason why I'm discerning in the first place so to them it was no surprise.

[MessorCarus]

I've had so many different reactions. One of my friends wouldn't stop calling me "nun" for a long time and she also started referring to my "nun fund" whenever she treated me to something and wouldn't let me pay her back. A couple of my friends thought it "made sense", which was an interesting reaction. And yes, one of my friends wanted to throw me a "bridal shower" before I leave for the convent. My nephews want me to be a nunja. It all has been quite an adventure.

[elizabeth09]

my co-workers thinks that I should marry a rich guy so that way I do not have to work or become a nun. Right now, I am silent because one day, I might surprise them and become a sister.

[Queen'sDaughter]

My friends suggested a "nun-shower". And they make references to how "holy" I am. I told them to STOP IT! But other than that there hasn't been anything that funny, though I am using my entrance date as a lever to get two of my friends engaged (if not married) before I leave!