Your Superior As Your Sd - Or Not?

[Graciela]

In some communities, a fully professed sister might be the spiritual director for someone in initial formation. But the one serving as spir dir should never be the one who is in authority to evaluate/make decisions about whether the postulant or novice stays or goes or advances to the next stage of formation. It is a major "conflict of interest" to use a worldly term. also, the sister in formation is very apt to feel that they can not freely share their spiritual journey in direction if the person listening is their evaluator in formation. That does not make for good spiritual direction anyways. Although God can make good things happen out of negative experiences, I think we also must use prudence and wisdom by not setting up systems that can harm.

[Chiquitunga]

Hey this is a somewhat old thread, and I wasn't sure where to share this, but I wanted to clarify in case anyone might have thought .. the non-Carmel community I was in was[i] [u]not[/u][/i] the Sisters of Bethlehem/Monastic Family of Bethlehem, who are super wonderful and who I've discerned with and shared a lot about here in the past. No one asked, but I just thought I'd clarify as I have mentioned on here briefly that I was in an overseas community (and one that's never been posted about here)
Not Bethlehem though. All experiences I've had with them were wonderful!!! Just wanted to clarify

[MarysLittleFlower]

Having read through the thread I think I agree with the others