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AS029 Ask Sister – prioritizing religious communities to visit, a worried mom, steps in becoming a nun, semi-supportive parent
AS029 Ask Sister podcast recorded live on June 11, 2010. Sponsored by aNunsLife.org ministry. Topics include: prioritizing religious communities to visit, a worried mom, steps in becoming a nun, dealing with a semi-supportive parent, and more.
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Here are some of the questions we addressed in this Ask Sister podcast:
- When you were discerning how did you prioritize what orders to go visit?
- Do you have any advice for dealing with a mom who doesn’t seem to realize how important my calling is?
- What are the steps in becoming a nun? (see our article How to Become a Catholic Nun)
- How do I relate with my daughter when my husband and I are worried about her enthusiasm about becoming a nun?
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I had a mother who was very UNsupportive of me becoming a sister. She’d throw it in my face whenever I did something stupid or disrespectful–”And YOU want to become a nun!” I learned later that she thought the sisters were coercing me into entering their community, that it was just like when her pastor tried to leave her and another girl from the parish on the doorsteps of the Carmelite Monastery. Mom couldn’t understand that I was following God’s call for me.
Even after I left home, our relationship was strained. A friend said that whenever I came home for a visit, Mom would observe me and see how I was happy and truly blossoming as a person in religious life. I think our moment of reconciliation was at the Sign of Peace at my first profession Mass. After that, whenever I was home, she’d drag me here and there and say proudly, “This is my daughter the nun.”
My advice to someone who has a similar problem with her family is just to love them, to be yourself, and give it time.
As for prioritizing which order, I ended up going through all the brochures the Diocesan Vocation sent me. I wanted to be a teacher, so I eliminated all the ones that were exclusively in the medical fields, were cloistered, or only taught in foreign countries. I looked at their saints and their charisms. I narrowed it down to two and God narrowed it further to one. I am happy to be a Felician Franciscan Sister where I “cooperate with Christ in the spiritual renewal of hte world.”
I can never type hte …uh… “the” correctly the first time!