You Thought That Order Was For You, But It Isn't ....?

[foolishmortal]

[quote name='Carmeliteheart726' post='1709570' date='Nov 24 2008, 12:26 PM']LOL, I'll tell you, this discernment thing is not easy at all! I thought I was so sure, but I think I was wrong! I am so moved by the CFRs that I would consider it a blessing and privilege to join the Sisters. Their ministry is amazing and I love the fact that they are both active and contemplative. I was planning to visit the Brooklyn Carmelite monastery this next year, and I think I will visit the CFR sisters as well since the Bronx is close by. Hopefully, I will get clarity somehow. I also plan to go to Mass this week as well as Adoration. I think I have a Carmelite heart, but a Franciscan soul and vocation, LOL.[/quote]

I didn't know the Council on Foreign Relations has sisters (laughing)

My favorite saints have been Franciscans, but I've heard of these Augustinians whose charism is listening. I wonder... It's hard, because I like nature and reading the "Flowers of St. Francis". It's good to know one, like Fr. Groeschel can feel like one kind of religious, while fitting into another. Can you still be more into another orders' saints while being of another order?

[InHisLove726]

[quote name='Carmeliteheart726' date='13 November 2008 - 10:54 AM' timestamp='1226588062' post='1700562']
Oh, yeah, definitely has happened to me too. I thought for a long time that I was called to the same order my friend is joining--the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus in St. Louis, MO. I went to meet her at their vocation retreat this year, and though I loved it, I did not feel like it was where I was going to end up. I prayed to God because I was concerned that I did not have a calling at all, but I was wrong. I did have a calling! It was just to the cloistered, contemplative life of the Discalced Carmelite nuns! I knew that being a Carmelite was where I was called because that was the only part that felt right to me.

I am looking at mostly traditional orders within the OCD order:

Buffalo, NY
Brooklyn, NY
Philadelphia, PA
Iron Mountain, MI
San Francisco, CA
Arlington, TX
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It's funny how my story has become a circle. After discerning for a while with a different province of the Carmel DCJ, I am back to discerning with OCD orders. And look who is on the top of the list of people I was planning to contact.

Edited October 8, 2009 by InHisLove726

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='InHisLove726' date='08 October 2009 - 02:43 PM' timestamp='1255023826' post='1980978']
It's funny how my story has become a circle. After discerning for a while with a different province of the Carmel DCJ, I am back to discerning with OCD orders. And look who is on the top of the list of people I was planning to contact.
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I must say, I totally know what you mean... God's funny, isn't He?

[Starets]

The only Order I have really considered was the Benedictines. I first went to asn active community, StPeter's in Saskatchewan. I loved the place and community but becan to wonder a few things as time went by. First I wondeed if i would really be wanted there as part of the community. I had to realise that I had to take the community as it was and not as I wanted it to be. third i had to ask myself if I wantted to be in an active or contemplative community. So I kept looking. I ended up joining a community that I initially hadnt even considered ask I didnt think theyd want an old fluffy air extraction like me

[Muus]

I had it too! I thought I was called for being a Carmelite, but it was something else.