memory-singer Posted June 27, 2006 Posted June 27, 2006 [quote name='Domine ut Videam' post='1013053' date='Jun 27 2006, 06:35 AM'] any more advice y'all.................... : [/quote] Yes. Call your informal spiritual director. It's for him to decide if he's too busy. And pray for your parents unceasingly. Pax, Dare
Guest phatdaddy Posted June 27, 2006 Posted June 27, 2006 [quote name='Domine ut Videam' post='1012036' date='Jun 25 2006, 06:40 PM'] Thanks Dare and Dad, I know that i should continue and proceed.....but i can't help but feel i am abandoning them. It is also bad because it is the summer, my informal spiritual director (who was also just assigned as the pastor to a medium sized parish too) is very busy and i just don't want to bother him. So i suppose that i am going to have to go to my parish priest, becuase i just have a lot of questions and i really need to talk to a priest and get some advice in the flesh. It also helps because my parish priest knows my parents.....so maybe he will better be able to help me discern what i should do. I guess i will ask him if i can talk to him sometime next week........... Any other suggestions? Has anyone else been in a similar situation? And yes dad, i am sort of hijacking my thread. That is why i gave it a nice vague title; so i could ask all sorts of questions. I just started it with a specific one. : -Yours in Christ Lauren [/quote] Lauren, Now stop that. You know you are not abandoning them. Now true, you will be leaving their home, when you are of age (at least 18) and you will begin your own life. Whether to religious life or married life you [u]will[/u] leave them. OK this is hard for us parents who love our children so much but we know it must be this way. After all, it's what we did. Lauren, you must do God's will, and if He is calling you to consecrated life then this is where your true happiness will be found. You've tried to explain to them that they are not losing you that you will be closer than ever but they can't see that right now. In time with God's grace they will see it and it will bring them such joy. Pray for this. But whether they accept it or not, this decision is yours to make. When your are of age of course. Continue to speak to your SD about how you are to grow in love and thus holiness, but try not to focus too much on this or that community, or this or that apostolate or where you should go. Wait until you are of age to openly and actively persue these options (only because of your circumstances). Live in the present moment, with your eyes on Jesus, accept things as they come and earnestly pray that He will grant your desire. You are in my prayers. Mr. Ray
benedictaj Posted June 27, 2006 Posted June 27, 2006 [quote name='stlmom' post='1013210' date='Jun 28 2006, 07:39 AM'] Wonderful words Mr. Ray! [/quote] I completely agree!! :
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