Thank you for all that you are doing.
Kim

I just happened to read this 6 month old topic, but I think it sounds like a great idea and I would love to “adopt” you.
I am a 52 year old woman, living in Denmark and with no means of being able to offer financial support.
However, I can offer heartfelt and genuine prayers and good and warm thoughts, so if this sounds like something you would like to receive, please let me know.

Kind regards, Tulle.

One of our local papers had a wonderful article on him.
http://tinyurl.com/mzrtwk

I am a Servant of the Sacred Cross.

Sister Patricia

I would not be surprised if your pastor already knows of this and, at least, the diocesean chancery should definitely know.

There is also your state council, which you can find as well on the Supreme website.

I have never been involved with this sort of thing. I would think, however, you could call the national Knights of Columbus office to get some ideas if your pastor isn’t familiar with this. dee

btw- do you have to be a certain age to do this?

For what order are you a novice? Are you in the U.S.? dee

Saa-Fep-Hem-Den-Vub? Saf-eph-med-neu-vub? Suf-f-mud-neu-vabee? Anyway I work it sounds like a Biblical name! LOL

Good luck!

This sounds like a wonderful program. I’m a first year novice and wish I could be adopted! I need no financial support but prayers would be most welcome.
Corresponding with a youth group, school, religious education class would be would be fun and a good opportunity to foster more vocations so I hope this program goes into my area soon!

Sister Patricia

I think I would love to be involved in a program like this and offer support through letters. I’m going to have to check around and see if there’s anything similar in Canada.

Great idea, methinks – adopting a candidate, not microbes.

This has great potential for supporting our sisters in formation, but think of the development possibililties! “Sister Mary This One is looking forward to the day the convent’s 100 yr old elevator is replaced so that she can join the sisters in the main body of the convent chapel instead of from the infirmary balcony.”

(Inside joke: “Sister Mary This One” is what some of my sisters would call another sister when her name escapes them. It’s a lot better than “Sister Mary What’s-her-name”! SIGH. I was such a dumb postulant. I thought “Sister Mary This One” was a real person and that “of Blessed Memory” was a parish in Texas! @_@!)

Also, you can read more about the RSVP program on the Order’s web site, http://www.kofc.org and search for RSVP.

Consecrated virgins living in the world are not technically considered religious, since we don’t profess vows per se (rather, we publicly state our resolution to live a life of virginity at the time we are consecrated) and we don’t belong to a community with a specific mission, spirituality, and founder (instead, we live as a part of the local diocese under the direct authority of the diocesan bishop). Although, it is possible to be both a consecrated virgin and a nun, since some Orders, like the Carthusians and some Benedictines, use the Rite of Consecration in addition to a nun’s solemn profession.

But as you mentioned, consecrated virginity “in the world” is definitely a public state of consecrated life, just as religious life is. In this way, I would think that consecrated virgins have more in common with religious than not.

Thus, so far I’ve never been too offended when people don’t distinguish between consecrated virginity and religious life—although I for one am always delighted when I see consecrated virgins specifically mentioned in a discussion on vocations!