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AS011 Ask Sister – converts, icons, vocation reactions, past relationships
Listen to AS011 Ask Sister podcast recorded live on January 22, 2010. Sponsored by aNunsLife.org ministry with guest iconographer Sister Nancy Lee Smith, IHM. Topics include non-Catholics becoming nuns, realizing you may have a calling, and relationships.
Sister Nancy Lee Smith, IHM, is an iconographer and spoke with us about her ministry as well as her own calling to religious life. You can find out more about Sister Nancy and her ministry at Saint Joseph Studio.
Questions from listeners included:
- How important is having past relationships to discerning a call to religious life?
- How did you feel when you first started to have thoughts about becoming a nun? How did you react?
- What if you long to find love still, but still think that religious life an option?
- Is it possible to become a nun if I haven’t been Catholic my whole life?
- Are there specific rules for writing icons? What is it like to be an iconographer’s apprentice?
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Just listened to Sr. Nancy’s story and…. WERID… I share the same story! I too was drawn by a missionary nun who came to talk to our school. It is soooo true he wanted all the great people and who am I?!? Wow… and it was also a Cisterican Monk who influenced me… This is crazy! I wanta hear more…. Thanks Sister’s!