Answering Parents' Concerns

[brandelynmarie]

[quote name='juchu' timestamp='1320842376' post='2333688']
They will never [b][i]understand [/i][/b]what it is that makes me do this, but honestly I myself do not [i][b]understand[/b][/i] it either... But I feel, believe, hope that this is what God is asking from me.
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[quote name='TeresaBenedicta' timestamp='1320849486' post='2333713']
I really think right now there is simply a struggle in understanding the supernatural in all of this. Without strong faith, how [i]can[/i] you understand the virtue of poverty? How can you understand that God is the only possession that my heart seeks to own? And that, although it seems contrary to logic, our love will only grow without these other material 'things'... because without them, what is there? Only love. Love in its purest form.

I suppose experiencing the truth of this will be the only way they can come to understand.
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[quote name='juchu' timestamp='1320869241' post='2333875']

So hopefully for our parents our entry into religious life will be a bit "experiencing the truth" of all this... And maybe while we are trying to pray, trying to understand and keep praying for them they will sometime understand.
Its a bit like in 1 Cor 13 (I do not know the exact English translation):[i] For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror, then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.[/i]

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Yes...all of the above.

[cmaD2006]

Oh and another thing ... I think over time parents "come 'round." I say that because in the 1st community that I entered, my partner-in-crime (aka fellow postulant lol) had parents who were completely against her vocation. They were upset.

Well, its been 8 years now since she entered, and now the sister is perpetually professed, and her parents are strong benefactors to the community. They love the sisters, and are happy with the decision that their daughter made. You see their participation in her final profession, and they were beaming.

So have faith!