I have never really responded to these emails let alone read all of them!!! i have only read the ones that seemed interesting. I would say I am close to...
Hello! Lately, I've been mulling over a vocation and I was having double thoughts on entering, uh, the convent. I just think I can't...although I have a ...
I just returned from an unstructured come-and-see visit to the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (SOLT) www.soltsisters.org Most likely I'll be...
Dear Shirely, If you would like to drop me an email off the loop I would love to talk to you...One thing about a vocation, you are never called to a life you...
My application to the Sister Servants of the Eternal Word is almost complete. I've been having some bad health snafoos though, so I haven't been able to get a...
Shirley, I think all of us seriously pursuing a discernment process have moments when it seems too hard, such a big thing God is asking of us. The devil after...
Hello! Thank you very much. Actually it's quite of a dilemma for me to think about things in a straight way. I just feel that there's more to my life right now...
St. John Vianney says that we should dedicate our day to God the very second we wake up. Our Lady of Fatima talked about Daily Duty. She built upon St. ...
I'm currently looking for a job near where I live. Please pray that I find one. My current employer is switching all full time teacher's assistants to part...
My prayers are with you, Anne. I need to find a job also. I have been searching since November, no job offers yet! The Lord provides when we need it most. ...
Someone recently told me about how God often provides what we need only at the very last moment, in order to test our faith and help us depend more on Him That...
Thank you. This month has been so tough on me because I always live in the midst of confusion. I just recently returned to the Faith three years ago yet the...
Gemma's advice on offering it all up, even our doubts, is excellent I think. I certainly know that you are not alone in what you are feeling, in terms of...
Hmmm... I think so too. Maybe my life has something to do with my restlessness. I've had A LOT of suffering as a person: death of loved ones, sicknesses,...
A friend of mine just got back an abnormal Pap test and she needs prayers. They told her that she'd have to wait 4 months till she could get another test to...
I would appreciate it very much if someone could please give me some advice on getting some low-cost housing over the summer in the D.C. commuting area. (I'd ...
Dear Elizabeth, I relocated out west from Wilmington, NC (not far from you at all!) and can very much relate to and verify what you are saying about the job...
Hi Shirley (and the group): There's one thing that I've been learning recently, that God's mercy is much greater than my sins -- past, present and future. ...
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This is something that I often wonder about. Supposedly, if one has a vocation to religious life, all the graces necessary to live that life are given to the...
This is where I think we need to go back to first principles. Now let me say that what I'm going to say may strike you as out of tune with some current...
Dear Magda, What you said interests me, and it's definitely not what we're hearing these days from most vocational information events or people. They say that...
For those of us who work in vocations, I have come to term those who enter then leave a "temporary" vocation. Now, before anyone jumps my case for that term,...
To follow up Gemma's email with my own experience: I entered a community and left as a postulant. Both decisions were not easy ones to make ... but now almost...
I'm not sure about the concept of a 'temporary vocation' (I need to think some more about that!), but there is no doubt that people can sensibly try a...
This term is something that the nuns and I coined just so we could have a conversation about those who enter then leave without making final profession....