Which Are You Discerning?

[Divine Mercy 9999]

There should be a monk emoticon. Something like this one One that looks like Thomas Aquinas would be good.

[PhuturePriest]

[quote name='Divine Mercy 9999' timestamp='1327682587' post='2376188']
There should be a monk emoticon. Something like this one One that looks like Thomas Aquinas would be good.
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But, that wouldn't be a Monk, Saint Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican Friar. There are differences of massive proportions between a Monk and a Friar.

[InPersonaChriste]

[quote name='FuturePriest387' timestamp='1327777164' post='2376582']
But, that wouldn't be a Monk, Saint Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican Friar. There are differences of massive proportions between a Monk and a Friar.
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We can pretend...

or we could get a Franciscan Minor and a Carthusian Monk.

Edited January 30, 2012 by InPersonaChriste

[PhuturePriest]

[quote name='InPersonaChriste' timestamp='1327955162' post='2377807']
We can pretend...

or we could get a Franciscan Minor and a Carthusian Monk.
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I'm not much on Carthusians. The Franciscan Friars are amesome, though. When it comes to Monastic Orders, I am partial to the Benedictines. I'm discerning with the Benedictine Monks at Clear Creek at the moment.

[Deus te Amat]

Who aren't you discerning with?

[InPersonaChriste]

[quote name='FuturePriest387' timestamp='1327978872' post='2378065']
I'm not much on Carthusians. The Franciscan Friars are amesome, though. When it comes to Monastic Orders, I am partial to the Benedictines. I'm discerning with the Benedictine Monks at Clear Creek at the moment.
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I am glad to hear of it, I will God Willing be able to meet a Clear Creek monk in the near future for a confrence.

[Joan Marie Wandel]

I love this poll an thread

[PhuturePriest]

[quote name='Deus_te_Amat' timestamp='1327982949' post='2378105']
Who aren't you discerning with?
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I'm not discerning marriage with a spouse, I'm not discerning with the Nuns or Sisters, I'm not discerning the Carthusians, I am pretty much no longer discerning with the Benedictines now, I am no longer discerning with the Capuchin Franciscans, etc.

[HopefulBride]

I don't think I ever did this. (And I've been here over a year and half!)

I am discerning the Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Church (Religious Community)
I have been discerning with them since July 2009
I have been discerning Religious Life for about 4 years
The final push for me was the fact that I literally wanted to live in the Church and would enviously look at those who lived across the street from the Blessed Sacrament. That coupled with the fact that I got mad that there were no 2nd or 1st order for married people made me realize that my deepest desire was Religious Life.