A New Institute

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I think there needs to be a new institute. One where people feel called to be espoused to Christ but don’t fit the criteria for Order of the Virgins. I feel called to this vocation but i am not a virgin and I have been divorced (annulled). So I am left without a vocation that I “fit” into. I wish there were a institute for people like me. Im sure there are a lot of everyday people who may feel the same call with no place to go.
 
Have you looked into secular institutes? Or religious life (if you don’t have children)?
 
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Have you looked into secular institutes? Or religious life (if you don’t have children)?
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Second this. If you don’t have children or they are grown up and completely self sufficient, you could look into secular or religious life a bit deeper.
 
Is your age a factor in finding a religious community or institute? Do you have a disability? Do you need to live in a particular region because of family?
 
Here’s a crazy thought.

If there are others you know in a similar situation, perhaps you can found such an institute, perhaps as a de facto association first, then eventually as a Private Association of the Faithful under your diocese’s care?

Just throwing it out there. You might have stumbled onto a gap the Church needs filling.
 
Cloisters I have no idea how to start a secular institute but if you started up a website that would be a beginning, let me know if I can be of help. Also, I am going to be speaking to my local bishop about my dilemma maybe he has some ideas. :Pray for me 😉
 
That would be a good place to start. What diocese are you in?

My organization has a letter-of-kinship secular institute, so I know something of what you’d be facing. This group, however, started as OCDS, and had to leave the same when they started their new life.

Any ideas for a patron? Considering the spectrum of spiritualities of the persons with whom I’ve interacted, I would make this an umbrella organization with each person following the spirituality/devotion that takes them to God.
 
I am in lexington ky. I really would have no idea how to go about it. The patron saint would be Mary Magdeline for many reasons. Shes the one God put in my heart. Wed i am talking about my vocation with someone from the institute of ursula maybe they can give me some ideas. I really feel the Holy Spirit stiring in my heart. Any help or advice feel free to write to me.

Valerie
 
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St. Mary Magdalen is also the patroness of the Dominicans.🙂

One of those discerners whom I referenced above said much the same thing. She’s in almost the exact same boat as you.

See what happens with the Institute of St. Ursula. BTW – I am a Berea College alumna.
 
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Cloisters I have no idea how to start a secular institute but if you started up a website that would be a beginning, let me know if I can be of help. Also, I am going to be speaking to my local bishop about my dilemma maybe he has some ideas. :Pray for me 😉
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Oooooooooooooooooo.

Future saintly founder in the making.
 
A private association of Christ’s Faithful without the intention of becoming an Institute of religious life that promotes the cloisters and provides support for discerners; ex-nuns; and founders, respectively (see first link under my signature)

And

An emerging Society of Apostolic Life with contemplative branch (please see second link under my signature).
 
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