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JoyfulLife

Member Since 15 Jun 2010
Offline Last Active Mar 21 2012 06:08 PM

“Our hearts are restless until they rest in you, Lord!” --St. Augustine Updated 26 Feb · 1 comments

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When we love we want to talk endlessly to the being we love, or at least look at him endlessly. This is what prayer is, familiar converse with our Beloved: We look at Him, we tell Him we love Him, we rejoice at being at His feet, we tell Him that this is where we want to live and die.

--Venerable Charles de Foucauld

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Hello, I came into the Church through RCIA, Easter 2003. I've been in the long process of religious life discernment, with try-outs, for a few years now. I started discerning around 2006/2007, and I've visited many orders, including a Dominician order, a Franciscan order, the Visitation order, and a Carmelite order. I also spent about fall 2010 to fall 2011 discerning with the SsEW in Alabama.

I was discerning a Carmelite order and another order up until recently (March '12).  I continue to remain open to whatever doors the Lord may open in my future at anytime, but I am feeling like marriage is what the Lord is asking.  I'm not running out dating or anything; I'm continuing with the ministry I help, and praying for the man the Lord wants for me to come into my life someday.

I've been getting help in my discernment with a friend and we really discovered that religious life most likely wasn't a fit for me.  Also, I spoke with the last two orders.  The Carmelite order VD said that my health condition is not condusive to the life led in religious life.  The other order stopped contact months ago, and my SD believes that it's more than likely a closed door.

And, also, through all of this, I've been feeling more attracted to marriage and spousal love since last year.  It seems like a sign of where the Lord has been directing me, now that He has a willing heart.

Lord, help me to be abandoned and patient with Your will and timing.

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A devotion now very dear to me...

Through this devotion, Mother Mary promises....
6) I will visibly help them at the moment of their death, they will see the face of their Mother.
7) I have obtained (This Grace) from my divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to my tears and dolors, will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son and I will be their eternal consolation and joy.

Learn more about this devotion.

Today's Mass: http://www.usccb.org/nab/

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My favorite photo of Jesus. It looks a w esome in person! The intense loving gaze of Jesus in prayer with His Father overflows with love.

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Jesus loves you this much. :love:
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My Jesus,
I believe that You
are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things,
and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment
receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You.

Amen.

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Discernment information:

Site To Find A Vocation Director

***discovering Your Calling***

"Discernment - Head and heart"

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Great places to search Orders:

http://www.cmswr.org

http://www.religiouslife.com/

http://womenreligiou...os.blogspot.com

http://www.vocations.com/womenrel.html

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Orders for late vocations

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Orders open to those with medical issues:

"WIll my medical disabilities prevent me from entering a convent?"

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Help for paying medicines:

http://needymeds.org

http://managedrxplans.com/

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Organizations for paying debts:

"Question about being a nun"

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Marriage-related threads to discuss discerning marriage:

Note: We aren't allowed to post threads specifically about marriage in VS, but some have said it's okay to continue posting in the existing marriage threads.

Phatmass - Resources for Marriage

Engaged/Married List

You know you are a future bride/groom when....

Changing Discernment From One Vocation To Another

Discerning Single/josephite/marriage?

Josephite Marriage

Determining That Someone Isn't Called?

What Surprised You The Most About Marriage And Kids?

How Do You Know When You Are In Love?

Internet resource on marriage

The Chastity Thread

(Graphic) Information about relations in marriage

(Graphic) Turns into a spiritual discussion about experience in marriage.

More excellent information on marriage on the Raising Small Humans board of Phatmass.

Related: Consecrated Virginity more CV Search Search single life Discerning women

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Adore Our Lord, live on the internet:

http://Savior.org

http://www.marytown.com
(Live running video and audio. Sit and adore, or join them for Rosary around 7PM--their mid state time! The chapel's all yours!)

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Be who you are and be that well. -- Saint Francis De Sales

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real. -- Thomas Merton

To love God is something greater than to know Him. -- St. Thomas Aquinas

I fear only one thing---to keep my own will; take it, my God, for I choose all that You choose.--St. Therese of Lisieux

Lord, I want whatever you want,
because you want it,
the way you want it,
as long as you want it. - Prayer of Pope Clement XI

Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with all the Masses said throughout the world today for all the Holy Souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal Church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen.
--Prayer of St. Gertrude

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The Rosary, a contemplative prayer

12. The Rosary, precisely because it starts with Mary's own experience, is an exquisitely contemplative prayer. Without this contemplative dimension, it would lose its meaning, as Pope Paul VI clearly pointed out: "Without contemplation, the Rosary is a body without a soul, and its recitation runs the risk of becoming a mechanical repetition of formulas, in violation of the admonition of Christ: 'In praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think they will be heard for their many words' (Mt 6:7). By its nature the recitation of the Rosary calls for a quiet rhythm and a lingering pace, helping the individual to meditate on the mysteries of the Lord's life as seen through the eyes of her who was closest to the Lord. In this way the unfathomable riches of these mysteries are disclosed".

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God bless you! Love, joy and peace be with you!