Kayte Postle Posted February 7, 2014 Posted February 7, 2014 Venues posted a link in her original reply to a thread where Inpersonachriste talks about her visit to the Benedictines. I've been looking at them too, and it seems that information is a bit scarce! I suppose we will just have to visit to find out what visits are like. :hehe:
SNJM Posted February 10, 2014 Posted February 10, 2014 Mother Cecilia has told me personally that they will indeed look at the person - as stated above - on an individual basis & will remain open to the Holy Spirit. I cannot encourage the discerned out there enough to please please please persevere!
InPersonaChriste Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 Venues posted a link in her original reply to a thread where Inpersonachriste talks about her visit to the Benedictines. I've been looking at them too, and it seems that information is a bit scarce! I suppose we will just have to visit to find out what visits are like. :hehe: Do visit them ;) I know their isn't a ton of information online, but If you are interested in spending a quiet week with beautiful Christ following women then that is the place you should be. Also contact them, their answers aren't immediate, but they are really descriptive and let you get a feel for it.
Kayte Postle Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 Do visit them ;) I know their isn't a ton of information online, but If you are interested in spending a quiet week with beautiful Christ following women then that is the place you should be. Also contact them, their answers aren't immediate, but they are really descriptive and let you get a feel for it. Unfortunately I'm a recent convert (almost one year!), and the sisters ask that vocational inquirers be Catholic for at least two years before writing them. So I won't get to visit them for awhile. I think that's very wise of them to request. It gives me the chance to grow more, live my current vocation as a single person, all the while "keeping an eye on" these beautiful sisters. ;) It is however wonderful to hear little tid bits about them! I certainly enjoyed reading about your week with them.
SilentJoy Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 Unfortunately I'm a recent convert (almost one year!), and the sisters ask that vocational inquirers be Catholic for at least two years before writing them. So I won't get to visit them for awhile. I think that's very wise of them to request. It gives me the chance to grow more, live my current vocation as a single person, all the while "keeping an eye on" these beautiful sisters. ;) It is however wonderful to hear little tid bits about them! I certainly enjoyed reading about your week with them. Congratulations on your upcoming conversion birthday! Waiting is hard but you're not behind! :bounce:
SilentJoy Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 Hello, all. From posts that I read before I joined VS, I know that a few of you have contacted or visited the Benedictines of Mary. Are there any of you here who are still considering them? This thread is for anything related to the Benedictines of Mary - pictures, videos, personal experiences, etc. I haven't yet met anyone who is considering them, and I would be happy to talk about them here with others. I don't know if anyone has posted a thread like this before, (it's very likely that someone has) but I haven't seen it. In Corde Matris, Ancilla Domini I'm scheduled to visit this spring! :woot: I don't know why, either! They sent an in-depth questionnaire for me to fill out before hand and I thought my responses were pretty crappy but they only said "When can you come?"
Ancilla Domini Posted February 11, 2014 Author Posted February 11, 2014 I'm scheduled to visit this spring! :woot: I don't know why, either! They sent an in-depth questionnaire for me to fill out before hand and I thought my responses were pretty crappy but they only said "When can you come?" Some of those questions are SO hard! Did you have the list of qualities that you had to rate yourself on (scale of 1-5)? Those were tough... They must just have the questionnaires to assess your eligibility and find out some stuff about you, because I definitely didn't do that brilliantly on the questionnaire, but they sent me the second one immediately! :D OH MY GOSH, YOU MUST BE SO EXCITED!!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: I wish I were visiting this spring!! I have to wait, though. :cry:
SilentJoy Posted February 11, 2014 Posted February 11, 2014 Some of those questions are SO hard! Did you have the list of qualities that you had to rate yourself on (scale of 1-5)? Those were tough... They must just have the questionnaires to assess your eligibility and find out some stuff about you, because I definitely didn't do that brilliantly on the questionnaire, but they sent me the second one immediately! :D OH MY GOSH, YOU MUST BE SO EXCITED!!!!! :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: I wish I were visiting this spring!! I have to wait, though. :cry: They didn't send a second one. They must have sent me a different form? Yes, I had to rate myself ("I dunno" wasn't one of the options), and then I felt I should probably explain my ratings so they would know why I imagined that I earned a 2 here, a 4 there... :smile2: I'm sorry you have to wait. :cry3: I'm just looking, though; I'm not taking anybody's spot as a postulant just yet.
InPersonaChriste Posted February 13, 2014 Posted February 13, 2014 Unfortunately I'm a recent convert (almost one year!), and the sisters ask that vocational inquirers be Catholic for at least two years before writing them. So I won't get to visit them for awhile. I think that's very wise of them to request. It gives me the chance to grow more, live my current vocation as a single person, all the while "keeping an eye on" these beautiful sisters. ;) It is however wonderful to hear little tid bits about them! I certainly enjoyed reading about your week with them. Welcome to the church! And I am glad you were pleased to hear about my week with them. I know I was pretty vague, but in that moment that was all I really could talk about with them. I went with the thought of just enjoying myself, and not putting pressure on myself to make a vocational decision. And the love I found in just visiting for the sake of my faith was more than I could have ever hoped for.
Ancilla Domini Posted March 12, 2014 Author Posted March 12, 2014 About to send in my second visit questionnaire. It was sooo hard to fill out! I hope I can visit them some time this year - they said that once I turn 16 and send in my questionnaire, we'll start figuring out when the best time to visit is. I'm trying to get my mother to let me visit in August or July. :)
TheresaThoma Posted March 13, 2014 Posted March 13, 2014 Ancilla that is super exciting, I hope that you are able to visit this summer!
SilentJoy Posted April 22, 2014 Posted April 22, 2014 Not visiting. I was scheduled for a Carmelite live-in a month earlier and I thought I'd better tell the Benedictines what the Carmelites were worried about before I made a 1500 mile round trip. The following conversation ensued (edited drastically for clarity and brevity), and with my sense of humor I thought it was kind of funny so I decided to post it: Carmelites: "You're VERY reserved." SilentJoy: "God made a joke. I'm too silent for a Silent Order." Benedictines: "Oooooh. Maybe you shouldn't come, then." Carmelites: "It wasn't really your silence that was the problem..." SilentJoy: "It wasn't?" Bendictines: "Well, that's different, then! We'll look forward to seeing you." Carmelites: "...some of us sort of wondered if you might have a touch of autism!" Benedictines: "AAAAAA!!! Pleeeease stay home!!!"
maximillion Posted April 22, 2014 Posted April 22, 2014 Oh no..........I am so sorry to hear this. Will they not wait and meet you before deciding SJ?
marigold Posted April 22, 2014 Posted April 22, 2014 Seconding Max! One, autism isn't a definite barrier to community life, and two, how do they even know to decide before they meet you?!
SilentJoy Posted April 22, 2014 Posted April 22, 2014 Will they not wait and meet you before deciding SJ? As I understood it, they were concerned because their life would require a little more of the "extroversion" factor than that of the Discalced Carmelites, and they didn't want to entertain hope if it seemed imprudent. I am a little relieved that I don't have to drive that far. (And no, they didn't use the words "AAAAAAA!!! Pleeeease stay home!!!" :hehe2: They were very kind and not at all dismissive.)
maximillion Posted April 22, 2014 Posted April 22, 2014 Dont tell before you meet with a community, so they can make an assessment based on YOU rather than a pre-conceived notion......
SilentJoy Posted April 22, 2014 Posted April 22, 2014 Dont tell before you meet with a community, so they can make an assessment based on YOU rather than a pre-conceived notion...... I know that NOW. This was back in March before I knew that yet. But now I am so very subtle... :flex:
SilentJoy Posted April 22, 2014 Posted April 22, 2014 Seconding Max! One, autism isn't a definite barrier to community life, and two, how do they even know to decide before they meet you?! They were concerned about the introversion before they heard the other; if I'd been more of an extrovert, perhaps no one would have worried about a little freckle of autism.
inperpetuity Posted April 23, 2014 Posted April 23, 2014 New interview with CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/heavenly-songs-from-classical-musics-unlikely-rock-stars/
Jennifer Posted April 23, 2014 Posted April 23, 2014 (edited) New interview with CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/heavenly-songs-from-classical-musics-unlikely-rock-stars/ Thank you for sharing this lovely clip............................ The sheer joy of the sisters is intoxicating.!! Edited April 23, 2014 by Jennirom
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