You Know You Are A Future Nun...

[Kylie Spinelli]

[quote name='Christina Thérèse' timestamp='1346985867' post='2479653']
You keep hallucinating nuns. (Well, by "hallucinating" I mean thinking that you see them when it's just someone in black clothing/someone's back (I thought it was her head)/there isn't even anyone there/et cetera.)

You're asked what makes you happy or what you've been doing this summer, and you think about daily Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours and such things. (Then you feel self-conscious saying that and hold your peace, only making a vague mention of "prayer" or "Mass".)

You smile as you're asked if you have/want/have ever had a boyfriend and think about Jesus, but keep silent. (Yeah.... I hold my tongue about that a lot.)
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THIS IS MY LIFE!!!! You nailed it on the head! Today was my first day of Spanish and our first thing that we did was write about "un dia inolvidable" and I couldn't think of anything else, so I wrote about my visit to a motherhouse! LOL

And that was what happened when I first started discerning - I saw nuns EVERYWHERE!

And the whole boyfriend thing. yeah, totally LOL :D

SO GLAD someone gets me!!

[DiscerningCatholic]

[quote name='emmaberry' timestamp='1347001513' post='2479734']
When the one year anniversary mark of the discovery/experience of your vocation is coming quickly.

When you realize, though a friend, that said anniversary is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

When this Feast is the day of Saint Francis' reception of the sacred stigmata!

When this day is, unbeknownst to you when it was planned, the day you will find out about your entrance into a Franciscan community of nuns.

By chance, does anyone know at what time Saint Francis received the sacred stigmata? My novel on him by Felix Timmermans says 'just when light was approaching' or something similar, but it IS a novel. May God reward you!
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Wait, you're joining the Franciscans????????????????????????????????????

[i<3franciscans]

[quote name='emmaberry' timestamp='1347001513' post='2479734']
When the one year anniversary mark of the discovery/experience of your vocation is coming quickly.

When you realize, though a friend, that said anniversary is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

When this Feast is the day of Saint Francis' reception of the sacred stigmata!

When this day is, unbeknownst to you when it was planned, the day you will find out about your entrance into a Franciscan community of nuns.

By chance, does anyone know at what time Saint Francis received the sacred stigmata? My novel on him by Felix Timmermans says 'just when light was approaching' or something similar, but it IS a novel. May God reward you!
[/quote]The exact date is unknown, but it is memorialized on September 17th... Which just so happens to be the day the CFRs made profession last year. How cool is that?!

[emmaberry]

[quote name='i<3franciscans' timestamp='1347047754' post='2479933']
The exact date is unknown, but it is memorialized on September 17th... Which just so happens to be the day the CFRs made profession last year. How cool is that?!
[/quote]

I think it is documented in Saint Bonaventure's "Legend Minor" that Saint Francis' stigmata occurred on the morning of/near the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.

Edit: This is when the Poor Clares have always celebrated Saint Francis' reception of the stigmata, though they also commemorate it on its proper feast day, the 17th.

Edited September 7, 2012 by emmaberry

[ChristinaTherese]

A funny story about the whole boyfriend thing by the way: My brother's girlfriend (soon to be his fiancee) was with us for Christmas, and someone asked me, "So, CT, when are you going to bring a boyfriend home?" Alison (my brother's soon-to-be-fiancee) and Daniel (my brother) said later, "When you can recieve the Eucharist!" (Alison knew/thought that I would be a nun before I did.)

When you choose fabric based on what orders wear that color. (And you're sewing new shirts so they cover your butt and are all over more modest.)

When you want your drivers license so that you can go visit nuns a few hours away from college.

When the only reason you aren't failing is that your friends don't have you stuck in the "Biochemist" pickle jar and that your favorite classes have absolutely nothing to do with science but might well prepare you to have a good understanding of the world/history/everything. And none of your good friends are even science majors anyway.

[DiscerningCatholic]

One of my youth ministers was walking behind me one time. I was wearing a dark blue jacket with my "postulant's skirt" as my friends have come to call it; it's blue, cotton, full, and down to about six inches below my knees. My youth minister said to me, "You look like Sr. Therese [screen name]." I said, "NO WAY. I do NOT want to be a nun."

Little did I know...

When every one of your friends seems to have known that you'd end up officially discerning at some point, because none of them act surprised when you tell them...

[emmaberry]

[quote name='DiscerningCatholic' timestamp='1347051177' post='2480000']
"You look like Sr. Therese [screen name]." [/quote]

I don't get this-you mean he said you look like Sister insert-your-name-here?

[DiscerningCatholic]

[quote name='emmaberry' timestamp='1347066094' post='2480100']
I don't get this-you mean he said you look like Sister insert-your-name-here?
[/quote]
LOL, yup. I guess that wasn't all that clear. But yeah.

[OnlySunshine]

...when your pastor tells you that your Sisters might be visiting soon and you get all excited!

This is a true story! They may be coming on the 19th and I'm trying very hard to find a ride to Church so I can see them. Even if I have to take a taxi, I'll go!

[TheresaThoma]

after your friend tells you all about her new boyfriend asks you "So how are things with you and the community, are you still discerning or is this "the one"?"
True phone conversation between my friend and I, in the middle of an airport. I got a few weird looks.

[DiscerningCatholic]

[quote name='TheresaThoma' timestamp='1347162562' post='2480452']
after your friend tells you all about her new boyfriend asks you "So how are things with you and the community, are you still discerning or is this "the one"?"
True phone conversation between my friend and I, in the middle of an airport. I got a few weird looks.
[/quote]
Don't judge! We're cool!

[emmaberry]

When people smirk and remark that your discernment is 'just a phase' and you feel just as crazy as you assume anyone would be after telling someone "I'm getting married" and hearing the response, "It's just a phase, sweetie."

[Pax_et bonum]

when your choir director tells you that you sing like a nun

[quote name='emmaberry' timestamp='1347247323' post='2480869']
When people smirk and remark that your discernment is 'just a phase' and you feel just as crazy as you assume anyone would be after telling someone "I'm getting married" and hearing the response, "It's just a phase, sweetie."


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[TheresaThoma]

When your pastor asks you, "so how long until you leave for the convent?" I was slightly confused and informed him it would be a couple years yet.

[OnlySunshine]

...when someone you know at Church (fellow EMHC) asks you when you're going to become a Sister!

...when you suddenly realize there IS public transportation in your area that could take you to Church on a weekday and realize that you CAN make it to see the Sisters when they come on the 19th!!! (God-willing)

I am so excited and happy! I thought of a public bus that I took with a senior from the nursing home to the hospital which everyone thinks is for seniors only. However, I looked at their website and it's for anyone who is transportation challenged! Plus, it's only [u][b]$1[/b][/u] per ride!!!

[Lil'Monster]

I know this is random but I just wanted to share this song:


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgqC24I_7Zc&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgqC24I_7Zc&feature=related[/url]

[Lil'Monster]

Unlike their weird hardcore metal rapcore songs.....here is more of a pretty song by Family Force 5


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUjyooSz-M&feature=relmfu"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WUjyooSz-M&feature=relmfu[/url]

[DiscerningCatholic]

[quote name='emmaberry' timestamp='1347247323' post='2480869']
When people smirk and remark that your discernment is 'just a phase' and you feel just as crazy as you assume anyone would be after telling someone "I'm getting married" and hearing the response, "It's just a phase, sweetie."


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HOW DID YOU KNOW? THIS IS MY LIFE! WHERE ARE THE HIDDEN CAMERAS?

Edited September 10, 2012 by DiscerningCatholic

[To Jesus Through Mary]

[quote name='emmaberry' timestamp='1347247323' post='2480869']
When people smirk and remark that your discernment is 'just a phase' and you feel just as crazy as you assume anyone would be after telling someone "I'm getting married" and hearing the response, "It's just a phase, sweetie."


[/quote]

Boo! Not cool.

But in a strange way they are right... it is a phase, because life in general IS just a phase. We are made for eternity. So if by "phase" they mean "lifetime" then there ya go.

[emmaberry]

[quote name='To Jesus Through Mary' timestamp='1347283189' post='2480962']
Boo! Not cool.

But in a strange way they are right... it is a phase, because life in general IS just a phase. We are made for eternity. So if by "phase" they mean "lifetime" then there ya go.
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Thanks for this! Now I have an amesome comeback to that particular remark.

Edit: The thing that I don't get about this phrase that I so often hear (and it sounds as if other discerners hear this too) is that I am 19 and have gone to college. To all of these people who dismissively remark "It's just a phase", I have to wonder what exactly they want me to do. If I finished school and worked a bit afterwards to make 100% sure that this is not a phase, then I would be over the age limits of many of the communities I am interested in.

Rant over-sorry.

Edited September 10, 2012 by emmaberry