faithcecelia Posted June 11, 2011 Posted June 11, 2011 [quote name='Divine Mercy 9999' timestamp='1307665905' post='2251838'] I would call the nun "ESP" thing another name for the Holy Spirit. It's true, though. Most Nuns/ Sisters can spot a discerner 10 miles away. [/quote] I was astonished at how many people worked it out with me - including people who were not remotely religious (such as my singing teacher and personal trainer!) - and almost disappointed that literally no one batted an eyelid when i told the, It seemed the only person to be suprised by my calling was me!
faithcecelia Posted June 11, 2011 Posted June 11, 2011 [quote name='Sebastian2' timestamp='1307757788' post='2252249'] And the 5 AM wake-up time isn't absurdly early, it's suddenly a glorious time to be awake[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/clap2.gif[/img] [/quote] I have risen at 4 - 4:30am for years, so 5am is a lie-in for me, I have never had as much time in bed as I did in Carmel, it was my cross being awake but having to stay in bed!
Divine Mercy 9999 Posted June 12, 2011 Posted June 12, 2011 [quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1307050752' post='2249303'] Me either. It has been the most painful journey imaginable, but making it has been a compulsion, an agony of love. [/quote] Sigh... yeah. I would not have chosen this path. (I'm no where near entering a community, either -yet anyway.) I have to say that the view can be pretty good at times. [quote name='MargaretTeresa' timestamp='1307561040' post='2251370'] Divine Mercy 9999, on 07 June 2011 - 06:07 PM, said:When people ask what order you are with... . [/quote] Seriously have had at least three people ask me this either at Adoration or after mass. I wear regular (albeit modest) street clothes so have no clue where it's coming from (except for that ESP vocation nun thing maybe.)
MargaretTeresa Posted July 11, 2011 Posted July 11, 2011 when everytime you hear one of your co-workers mention her OCD, you think discalced Carmelites.
LaPetiteSoeur Posted July 26, 2011 Author Posted July 26, 2011 When you're in the car and your sister thinks she sees a nun and you suggest you all play the "guess the order game." My family thinks they were Carmelites (possibly of the SHJ).
emilier98 Posted July 26, 2011 Posted July 26, 2011 When people call you sister and you like it and are saddened when you have to correct them by saying, "No I have not entered yet."
TheresaThoma Posted July 26, 2011 Posted July 26, 2011 When you get together with friends it always involves a trip to the Adoration Chapel The 24 hour Adoration Chapel being temporarily closed due to construction is a major crisis in your life. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/brickwall.gif[/img] You ask your priest for clarification on his comment in the bulletin about whether a Sister had her first profession or final/solemn and he was impressed that you caught it and knew the difference. You never go anywhere without your breviary and at least one rosary.
emilier98 Posted July 26, 2011 Posted July 26, 2011 [quote name='TheresaThoma' timestamp='1311658250' post='2276097'] The 24 hour Adoration Chapel being temporarily closed due to construction is a major crisis in your life. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/brickwall.gif[/img] You never go anywhere without your breviary and at least one rosary. [/quote] I know! Since they aren't doing daily mass they aren't having adoration either! I am not happy about this! GAH!!!! Yah, so guilty of that.
faithcecelia Posted July 26, 2011 Posted July 26, 2011 [quote name='emilier98' timestamp='1311656290' post='2276088'] When people call you sister and you like it and are saddened when you have to correct them by saying, "No I have not entered yet." [/quote] Oh I understand! I was doubly saddened the other week when I had to say 'Not any more'
SoonerCatholic Posted July 26, 2011 Posted July 26, 2011 I don't know if this is a sign, but when my boyfriend introduced me to a priest friend of his after daily Mass, the priest started going on about how I looked like I should be in a convent. Something about my face and angels from Heaven. O.O But, I'm grinning madly and wondering "is this a sign?" and the bf is thinking "No, Father, don't say that to her!". lol
krissylou Posted July 26, 2011 Posted July 26, 2011 [quote name='Divine Mercy 9999' timestamp='1307665905' post='2251838'] I would call the nun "ESP" thing another name for the Holy Spirit. It's true, though. Most Nuns/ Sisters can spot a discerner 10 miles away. [/quote] I emailed back and forth with the Associate director for one community, and then I called and she picked up the phone with "Hi [Krissy]" Is this some special nun gift, like seeing out of the backs of their heads in a classroom? Nah, she had Caller ID.
emilier98 Posted July 26, 2011 Posted July 26, 2011 [quote name='faithcecelia' timestamp='1311686607' post='2276158'] Oh I understand! I was doubly saddened the other week when I had to say 'Not any more' [/quote] I am so sorry! I cannot imagine what that is like, but you could add I will be again soon.
LaPetiteSoeur Posted July 27, 2011 Author Posted July 27, 2011 [quote name='krissylou' timestamp='1311696370' post='2276231'] I emailed back and forth with the Associate director for one community, and then I called and she picked up the phone with "Hi [Krissy]" Is this some special nun gift, like seeing out of the backs of their heads in a classroom? Nah, she had Caller ID. [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif[/img] [/quote]
MargaretTeresa Posted July 27, 2011 Posted July 27, 2011 When someone on chat (who you have never met before) asks what order you're with. I wanted to reply I belong to the Order of the Phoenix...
Clare~Therese Posted July 27, 2011 Posted July 27, 2011 I think someone already mentioned something like this, but here it goes. ...if everybody in your immediate family starts calling you Sister.
emilier98 Posted July 28, 2011 Posted July 28, 2011 [quote name='MargaretTeresa' timestamp='1311799639' post='2277060'] When someone on chat (who you have never met before) asks what order you're with. I wanted to reply I belong to the Order of the Phoenix... [/quote] That is avvesome!!! I might well have done that.
MargaretTeresa Posted July 28, 2011 Posted July 28, 2011 [quote name='emilier98' timestamp='1311828243' post='2277382'] That is avvesome!!! I might well have done that. [/quote] It cracked me up. majorly. "MT what order are you in?" "Huh?" If only I had thought of the smart reply then. I always come up with something witty after the fact.
maximillion Posted July 29, 2011 Posted July 29, 2011 When you are so engrossed in 'practicing' for the cloister that custody of the eyes gets you slap bang into a lamppost in the street on the way back from Sunday Mass. Fortunately it was first Mass and early, so no one noticed!
Lisa Posted July 29, 2011 Posted July 29, 2011 (edited) [quote name='maximillion' timestamp='1311952594' post='2278097'] When you are so engrossed in 'practicing' for the cloister that custody of the eyes gets you slap bang into a lamppost in the street on the way back from Sunday Mass. Fortunately it was first Mass and early, so no one noticed! [/quote] Edited July 29, 2011 by Lisa
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