If You Could Join Any Religious Community......

[TheLordsSouljah]

Totally Sisters of Life, otherwise Carmelites or the Colletine Poor Clares. SO awesome.

btw, is it just me or does phatmass hate the word awesome? it always spells it wrong!!

Edited March 1, 2013 by TheLordsSouljah

[EmilyAnn]

Totally Sisters of Life, otherwise Carmelites or the Colletine Poor Clares. SO awesome.

btw, is it just me or does phatmass hate the word awesome? it always spells it wrong!!

There's a fil.ter. Mostly used to keep out bad words but a few other words are messed with as well. Awe.some becomes awesome. I think pants (pa.nts) is one as well. We also used to eat coagulated milk (cheese). 

Edited March 1, 2013 by EmilyAnn

[FutureSister2009]

I would join the Carmelites if I could handle it. I want to be just like St. Therese. In reality though, my aim is the Salesians or the DSMMEs. They are all so amazing

[Kateri89]

Well I still love the Nashies so perhaps that order.  Of course the SOL are great too and the Pink Sisters have fabulous habits   :smile4:  I also really like the SSVM and Benedictines of Mary.  Too many to choose from!  Good thing God calls us to one particular vocation...so in reality I shall be going on retreat with the SSEW in April  :amen:

[FutureCarmeliteClaire]

I understand that it isn't serious, but I feel it might be unhealthy.

Now, I am fine with "List Your Favorite Communities!!" But maybe not this.

 

Such a downer, garsh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

;) :heart:
 

[marigold]

This one. One small problem though :)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSZEDNriDOQ

[nikita92]

Rosa- that would be so nice if you go!! Please do let me know what you decide. Thanks and blessings

[Lil'Nun]

The Passionists. Specifically, these Passionists. However, God cannot really be calling me there as I am too old. However, if I could chose anywhere, it would be here.

 

http://www.passionistnuns.org/

 

 

[DameAgnes]

This one. One small problem though :)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSZEDNriDOQ

 

Marigold ever check out this community? http://www.christthebridegroom.org/

[domenica_therese]

Well, if I had my way I wouldn't be discerning. It's not what we want, but what God wills. Therefore, I think this thread isn't appropriate.  :|

 

I'm usually not the one to say this.

 

Oh, but the beautiful thing is that, if it is truly what God wills, he aligns our hearts that way as well. I used to be 100% of accord with your first sentence, but God slowly works changes in our hearts. It's funny, because sometimes I'll wonder, "I want x so much, but is it really God's will or just my desires?" but then I think back 6 months to a year and it was reversed: "I want y but I think God might want x, am I just imposing my desires on God?"

 

The fact that something is beautiful and fills your heart with joy is not a sign that it is not your vocation. God wants us to be happy.

 

But the fact that something is beautiful and fills your heart with joy is not the sole sign that it is your vocation, though it can sometimes be a good indicator. 

 

Discerning the Will of God is a good book about listening to God's voice through consolations and desolations.

 

All that being said, however, I will admit that the phrasing of the topic title lends itself to an over-emphasis on our wills over God's, but I don't believe that was the intent. Rather, I see the expanded title of the thread as being "If joining a religious order was just about you saying "cool!" and plunking yourself down there, which would you plunk yourself down at today?" So it's not rejecting the will of God, but more saying "Let's leave the serious discussion of discernment as related to finding God's will and his purpose for my life over there in the REST of the vocation station, and just talk about cool nuns here."

Edited March 5, 2013 by domenica_therese

[marigold]

Marigold ever check out this community? http://www.christthebridegroom.org/

 

Hehe, yes! They are good friends, actually.

[ToJesusMyHeart]

Oh, but the beautiful thing is that, if it is truly what God wills, he aligns our hearts that way as well. I used to be 100% of accord with your first sentence, but God slowly works changes in our hearts. It's funny, because sometimes I'll wonder, "I want x so much, but is it really God's will or just my desires?" but then I think back 6 months to a year and it was reversed: "I want y but I think God might want x, am I just imposing my desires on God?"

 

The fact that something is beautiful and fills your heart with joy is not a sign that it is not your vocation. God wants us to be happy.

 

But the fact that something is beautiful and fills your heart with joy is not the sole sign that it is your vocation, though it can sometimes be a good indicator. 

 

Discerning the Will of God is a good book about listening to God's voice through consolations and desolations.

 

All that being said, however, I will admit that the phrasing of the topic title lends itself to an over-emphasis on our wills over God's, but I don't believe that was the intent. Rather, I see the expanded title of the thread as being "If joining a religious order was just about you saying "cool!" and plunking yourself down there, which would you plunk yourself down at today?" So it's not rejecting the will of God, but more saying "Let's leave the serious discussion of discernment as related to finding God's will and his purpose for my life over there in the REST of the vocation station, and just talk about cool nuns here."

Right on. 

 

When our will is wholly purified, it is God's will. The desires of a purified heart are very often the desires of God for that person.

[Mary's Child]

:hehe2: For me it is the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa hands down because of 

a. Eucharistic Adoration

b. Marian Consecration 

c. Rosary in community 

d. AND Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the mass.

[petitpèlerin]

In my dreams, the Sisters of Bethlehem. They have hoods and silence and eastern spirituality and they live in spectacularly gorgeous places. But they don't have some other things that, when I visited them, I realized I missed.

 

In my dreams and in reality, the community I'm discerning with. How good is God?! Found out this morning I'm going to spend a week with them . . . next Sunday.

[marigold]

In my dreams, the Sisters of Bethlehem. They have hoods and silence and eastern spirituality and they live in spectacularly gorgeous places. But they don't have some other things that, when I visited them, I realized I missed.

 

In my dreams and in reality, the community I'm discerning with. How good is God?! Found out this morning I'm going to spend a week with them . . . next Sunday.

 

Exciting!