this is for Ashley

[InCircles' brother]

you know once i was talking to my spiritual director and i had so many

questions about how i could never enter a religious order becuase of my

past sins and what not and this is the answer that he gave me... it was

amazing... he said [b]"a person does not enter the religious life because

he/she is perfect... but because he/she wants to become perfect..."[/b]

[Laudate_Dominum]

That's beautiful. And I agree. There have been saints who started out as terrible sinners.

St. Moses the Black for example was an infamous marauder who fled to Egypt to escape capture and was converted by some monks and became a monk himself! He later became a saint and a great miracle worker. Even though he was once a terrible bandit, people travelled far to seek his council in spiritual matters and he often healed people and stuff.