http://anunslife.org/2008/03/24/how-do-nuns-deal-with-sexual-urges/ Catholic Sisters and Nuns in Today's World Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:23:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://anunslife.org/2008/03/24/how-do-nuns-deal-with-sexual-urges/#comment-41343 STherese Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:22:52 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=665#comment-41343 Dear Sr. Julie, I just came across with your blog a few days ago and i find it very informative. It has answered a lot of my questions about how to deal with those feelings as i am a nun myself and I am experiencing midlife crisis... Thank you and God bless. Dear Sr. Julie,
I just came across with your blog a few days ago and i find it very informative. It has answered a lot of my questions about how to deal with those feelings as i am a nun myself and I am experiencing midlife crisis… Thank you and God bless.

]]> http://anunslife.org/2008/03/24/how-do-nuns-deal-with-sexual-urges/#comment-26899 Anne Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:46:25 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=665#comment-26899 Thankyou so much for your wise comments. I've been looking for some help with this, and there's very little around. I'm single and really struggling at present with sexual desire, which seems to be particularly overwhelming when I'm praying. I want to acknowledge this desire positively and integrate it as part of the whole of me and part of my spiritual journey, not repress or deny it. For me celibacy is appropriate while I'm single, so the immediate challenge is to find healthy ways of channelling the desire and the energy it produces, and the more long term one is to come to a deeper understanding of my sexuality and and the fullest possible expression of it in the context of a celibate lifestyle. Thankyou so much for your wise comments. I’ve been looking for some help with this, and there’s very little around. I’m single and really struggling at present with sexual desire, which seems to be particularly overwhelming when I’m praying. I want to acknowledge this desire positively and integrate it as part of the whole of me and part of my spiritual journey, not repress or deny it. For me celibacy is appropriate while I’m single, so the immediate challenge is to find healthy ways of channelling the desire and the energy it produces, and the more long term one is to come to a deeper understanding of my sexuality and and the fullest possible expression of it in the context of a celibate lifestyle.

]]> http://anunslife.org/2008/03/24/how-do-nuns-deal-with-sexual-urges/#comment-24520 JOhn Joyce Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:44:34 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=665#comment-24520 Please forgive indifferent typography Please forgive indifferent typography

]]> http://anunslife.org/2008/03/24/how-do-nuns-deal-with-sexual-urges/#comment-24519 JOhn Joyce Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:43:51 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=665#comment-24519 I hope I do not opffend by suggestinfg that tjhere are many men and women who are neither married, monastic nor priestly but live a fulfilled single life. I hope I do not opffend by suggestinfg that tjhere are many men and women who are neither married, monastic nor priestly but live a fulfilled single life.

]]> http://anunslife.org/2008/03/24/how-do-nuns-deal-with-sexual-urges/#comment-2507 Sister Julie Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:17:06 +0000 http://anunslife.org/?p=665#comment-2507 Becoming a nun is not every woman's calling. So rest assured, the world is not going to end because of too many nuns and not enough procreation. :) Becoming a nun is not every woman’s calling. So rest assured, the world is not going to end because of too many nuns and not enough procreation.

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