You Know You Are A Future Nun...

[Starets]

[quote name='MissScripture' timestamp='1287889654' post='2181981']
People think you're an ex-nun? That has to be awkward!
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Don't you have homework to do?

seriously though, there have been people who asked me if i was an ex-MONK before I joined up, so it seems logical to assume that some ladies would be asked if they were ex-nuns before joining up.

[Tally Marx]

[quote name='HopefulBride' timestamp='1287120157' post='2179716']
When you start to secretly pick and write out your desired religious name (like a teenager doodling Mrs. so and so)
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I do that!


- When eight-year-olds come up to you and tell you that you'd make a good sister.
- When you spend your time reading books like "The Foundations of Religious Life" by the CMSWR
- When you know what the CMSWR is
- When every time you see a religious you just [i]have [/i]to go an talk to them

[dominicansoul]

i know i'll never be a nun.... :\

[Tally Marx]

[quote name='dominicansoul' timestamp='1289186916' post='2185664']
i know i'll never be a nun.... :\
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If it's not too personal a question....
May I ask what's keeping you away??

[Klaudi87]

[quote name='BarbaraTherese' timestamp='1287204786' post='2179927']
You know you are a future nun when............... tomorrow is the day of your profession

Joking aside, I know of a young woman (pre V2) who was happily a layperson with a career with no desire to enter religious life but began to feel that most everywhere she went she seemed to see nuns. So she decided to visit her local convent mainly out of curiousity and to educate herself about religious life........and came away, slightly in shock, with her entrance date. She has been happily professed now for well over 50 years.
The Lord can move in strange ways indeed and His Ways not ours often at all.


Barb
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Amen to that!

[dominicansoul]

[quote name='Tally Marx' timestamp='1289187542' post='2185671']
If it's not too personal a question....
May I ask what's keeping you away??
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lotz of things,

but I don't think I've ever really had a calling to be a NUN...the cloister is definitely NOT where I belong....

[Klaudi87]

[quote name='Staretz' timestamp='1289184548' post='2185654']
Don't you have homework to do?

seriously though, there have been people who asked me if i was an ex-MONK before I joined up, so it seems logical to assume that some ladies would be asked if they were ex-nuns before joining up.
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This is true...i get that from family members who don't know Im discerning.
As a matter of fact just yesterday I had a family babyshower and I was called nun by an uncle and another one told me "When you marry Jesus....." (I dont remember what else he said)

[LaPetiteSoeur]

When your theology professor says "You are so ready for the convent!"

Too bad I have four to five more years to go! Maybe I'll be super prepared...

Dieu vous benisse!

[Hinter dem Horizont]

You know you're going to be a priest when...

You constantly picture yourself wearing the collar or cassock

All you watch on youtube are vocation videos

You pretend you're at the altar preaching the sermon

(I do these things all the time)

[HopefulBride]

[quote name='Tally Marx' timestamp='1289185756' post='2185660']
- When you spend your time reading books like "The Foundations of Religious Life" by the CMSWR
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Guilty

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- When you know what the CMSWR is
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Guilty

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- When every time you see a religious you just [i]have [/i]to go an talk to them
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Def. Guilty (take me to the convent!)

Edited November 8, 2010 by HopefulBride

[Klaudi87]

[quote name='LadyOfSorrows' timestamp='1287339991' post='2180184']
You know you're a future nun when....you listen to love songs on the radio..(usually happens to me during the Delilah show!) and think of Jesus :-)
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Tha is too funny! [i]".....love someone tonight"[/i]

[ameliabedelia]

[quote name='Hinter dem Horizont' timestamp='1289220844' post='2185744']
You know you're going to be a priest when...

You constantly picture yourself wearing the collar or cassock

All you watch on youtube are vocation videos

You pretend you're at the altar preaching the sermon

(I do these things all the time)
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im glad girls arnt the only ones who do this...well or course we picture ourselves in a habit [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/nun.gif[/img] [img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/smile4.gif[/img]

[Tally Marx]

[quote name='dominicansoul' timestamp='1289190348' post='2185693']
lotz of things,

but I don't think I've ever really had a calling to be a NUN...the cloister is definitely NOT where I belong....
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Haha! I don't feel called to be a [i]nun[/i] either. I have "cloisterphobia" and, besides, my friends and family have threatened to abduct me and lock me in a dungeon somewhere if I show signs of wanting to enter the cloister...
How they consider my living in another country or state much better... but I don't point that out.

[MithLuin]

- People who don't even know you think you are discerning.


Apparently, some of my students passed around the rumor that I am 'studying to be a nun.' I have no idea what started that, though they did have a sister visit their religion classes to talk about vocations last week. So, I know why they have nuns 'on the brain' (we don't have any teaching at our school, though one teacher is an ex-nun). But I quashed that rumor right away by saying 'No.' And then added a moment later, 'But my sister is.'

[In The Arms of The Lord]

You know when your a future religious when there is nothing and no one else that could capture your heart away from the gaze of Jesus. You just know that you would not trade a moment alone with Him for anything else.

[TeresaBenedicta]

...when, even though your life is beautiful, wonderful, and full of blessings, you still feel "incomplete," much how lovers feel when they say they are incomplete without their significant other.

[LadyOfSorrows]

[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1289259691' post='2185887']
...when, even though your life is beautiful, wonderful, and full of blessings, you still feel "incomplete," much how lovers feel when they say they are incomplete without their significant other.
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YES.

[carmelite15]

[quote name='teresitacarmel' timestamp='1287340130' post='2180187']
[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/like.gif[/img] So, I guess I'm not the only, um,...crazy one...[img]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/public/style_emoticons/default/blush.gif[/img]
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OH MY GOODNESS ME TOO!

[LaPetiteSoeur]

[quote name='MithLuin' timestamp='1289254930' post='2185859']
- People who don't even know you think you are discerning.


Apparently, some of my students passed around the rumor that I am 'studying to be a nun.' I have no idea what started that, though they did have a sister visit their religion classes to talk about vocations last week. So, I know why they have nuns 'on the brain' (we don't have any teaching at our school, though one teacher is an ex-nun). But I quashed that rumor right away by saying 'No.' And then added a moment later, 'But my sister is.'
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This is fantastic! I loved it when Sr. Colleen (Salesian) used to come and talk to us.

[Klaudi87]

When you go through a stage of denial but deep inside you, you know!