The Long and Winding Road

[BarbTherese]

There is a great variety of vocation stories  - this is one of them:

 

From swimming coach to Carmel

"she said ‘maybe the Lord is calling you to be a Carmelite’,” Sr Gwen says. “Just like that she said to me, and I said ‘I really don’t think so, no, it couldn’t possibly be, no’.”

Struggling year after year with a new way of life

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Excerpt only: "When she eventually joined the sisters, Sr. Gwen “didn’t want to do a live in” and instead just moved in with the sisters right off the bat..................

"When she eventually decided to join the sisters, Sr Gwen’s family was “devastated”....................

“They saw no value in the life at all,” she says. “They were good Catholics and they went to Mass and all. My brothers and sisters thought it was off the wall all together. But anyway, I went in in July and they all said, ‘well we’ll see you in two weeks, you’ll be out’. So that was it.”

 

 

 

Edited September 23, 2016 by BarbaraTherese