A Nun’s Life

formation

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

You may have noticed that things around the blog have changed a bit. I’ve made the leap of faith to hosting my own blog using WordPress.org open source software. Basically it means I have more control over my blog all the way down to the coding. My blog has all the same posts, comments, […]

Novitiate – Part I

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

It’s been a while since I wrote about the stages of formation in my series, “Decoding Formation” (see the sidebar on my blog for the previous posts). But now it is time to look at novitiate. I’m going to write this in several parts because there are a number of things I’d like to address. As […]

Decoding Formation: Postulancy/Candidacy

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

A while back I began a “series” called Decoding Formation.

Decoding Formation: a basic introduction

Decoding Formation: who me??

Decoding Formation: Initial Inquiry

Decoding Formation: Aspirancy/Pre-Candidacy

Here’s the next segment of the series. As mentioned in a basic introduction, each religious community may have its own particular nuances to the formation process, however, the basis for the formation process is […]

Decoding Formation: a basic introduction

Monday, October 30th, 2006

My good friend is preparing for her final vows so I’ve been thinking a lot about my own journey to final vows.
The basic elements of the journey of professing vows in religious life are not totally unlike those of the journey of professing vows for marriage. When a couple gets married they usually get engaged first. […]