You Know You Are A Future Nun Part 2

[Catherine Therese]

...if having to select lay clothes every day is seriously penitential.

(The habit in my past is one of the best gifts I ever received. I can't help but wonder if there mightn't still be one in my future?)

[maximillion]

I would give you more props CT, so totally agree.........for many many reasons I wish I could still wear the habit.

[AveMariaPurissima]

You know you're a future Dominican or Franciscan if...

...when someone mentions our Holy Father Francis, you promptly ask, "Which one?"

 

 

When you see a BlackBerry on someone's desk and you immediately think of that of Sr Joseph Andrew and how she uses it to respond to discerners in search of their vocation.

I love these! :)  I'd give them props but I ran out...

 

When you have a Pinterest page devoted to nuns.  (Come to think of it, I have two separate nun pages!)

[Kayte Postle]

When you have a Pinterest page devoted to nuns.  (Come to think of it, I have two separate nun pages!)

 

I do the same thing!!

[maximillion]

Me too........

[AveMariaPurissima]

When your idea of "alternative spring break" means visiting convents.  (hopefully!!! :) )

[TheresaThoma]

When you get REALLY excited that the place you will be volunteering/working at for the next year has Eucharistic chapels in each house and the staff prays Morning and Evening Prayer together.

[Ancilla Domini]

Oh goodness, where do I start?

 

1. When you get a present, you think, "So, to whom do I give this when I enter?"

 

2. You keep "your" nuns' website open, even when you're not looking at it.

 

3. Every time you type the letter B into the url box on your computer, the first result is "Benedictines of Mary."

 

4. You get a kindle for Christmas, and the very first thing you buy is Thomas Aquinas' "On Prayer and the Contemplative Life."

 

5. You are shocked when you find a convent website (yes, any order) that you haven't seen before.

 

6. You give a start whenever the priest talks about poverty in his sermon.

Edited November 16, 2013 by Ancilla Domini

[TheresaThoma]

You buy a nice cream colored sweater and wonder if it would be good for postulancy (I think it might be!)

[brandelynmarie]

...when you have vacation time & spend a goodly part of it on silent retreats or personal retreats at monasteries :blush:

[ChristinaTherese]

When part of what you're looking forward to over Christmas break (aside from visiting my brother) is visiting Sisters. (Not for discernment with them.)

When you're flying and wonder how close you are to a certain community. (A community which shall not be named.)

Edited November 17, 2013 by Christina Thérèse

[VeniJesuAmorMi]

Hello everyone who visits here. :wave:

 

Please say a prayer for me as I am in the application stage to enter Carmel. I am praying for all of you discerning. A few thoughts from experience: Don't give up through any obstacles and be thankful through them all. When He permits obstacles and trials soon after we will see Him put all the pieces together to come to where we need to be both interior and exterior, wherever that may be for your vocation. Be always faithful. Thank you for your prayers! :)

[Julie de Sales]

Hello everyone who visits here. :wave:

 

Please say a prayer for me as I am in the application stage to enter Carmel. I am praying for all of you discerning. A few thoughts from experience: Don't give up through any obstacles and be thankful through them all. When He permits obstacles and trials soon after we will see Him put all the pieces together to come to where we need to be both interior and exterior, wherever that may be for your vocation. Be always faithful. Thank you for your prayers! :)

 

I'm so very happy for you!! :yahoo: God answers prayers!

[Talithacum]

When you measure time by how many decades you could pray. :proud:

[Ancilla Domini]

Hello everyone who visits here. :wave:

 

Please say a prayer for me as I am in the application stage to enter Carmel. I am praying for all of you discerning. A few thoughts from experience: Don't give up through any obstacles and be thankful through them all. When He permits obstacles and trials soon after we will see Him put all the pieces together to come to where we need to be both interior and exterior, wherever that may be for your vocation. Be always faithful. Thank you for your prayers! :)

 

Oh I'm so happy and excited for you!  :yahoo:

 

You will definitely be in my prayers!

[Freedom]

When you're not manicured at all, eyebrows not maintained, no makeup etc.  That's not me tho, I'm too vain; I'll only be practicing that once I get in and they don't allow any grooming.  No mirrors can you believe it!?  I told someone this and they replied with, "That's inhumane!"  Haha

[Freedom]

Once you come home after your visit with your (hopefully) future community, it's night you're ready to fall asleep and you've never felt so peaceful in your life!  Weeks after, all your dreams involve nuns and the Monastery.

[brandelynmarie]

When you measure time by how many decades you could pray. :proud:

When I walked everywhere, it was 3 1/2 decades to my friend's house & 1 1/2 sets of mysteries to get downtown! :hehe:

[maximillion]

I walk with the Rosary too, and I cannot count the times someone has stopped me and spoken only to have the reply      "....now and at the hour of our death, Amen. Hi, how are you?"

[VeniJesuAmorMi]

I'm so very happy for you!! :yahoo: God answers prayers!

 

 

Oh I'm so happy and excited for you!  :yahoo:

 

You will definitely be in my prayers!

 

Thank you both so much for your prayers. :) I started working on the application the night I left there. I am almost finished with the parts I have to do myself and now I am just waiting for two letters of recommendation and the doctor is being called today to schedule an appointment. Though everything is pointing to that I will be entering, the application still has to go through the right channels first. Hopefully though, I could be receiving an acceptance letter and entrance date my mid December as long as I get the application finished in a certain time frame. This is a hopeful situation. Thanks again, and your intentions are remembered also!