All religious, PLEASE come here! How can we parents be open to the call!

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Please share with me what your mother, or parents or guardians, did that really helped you answer the call. 🙂 I am a mother of two boys. I want to be open to the call, if he calls that is. 🙂 We live our faith fully, but I know we can be even more devout! I love hearing about other families and mothers that were open to that call and how they fostered that call! Share anything that your mother/father/family did that helped you in your discernment!
 
Hmm what about those discerning? Surely their opinions count 🙂 And well as one discerning…we this is what more I wish my parents did while I was younger
  1. Pray the Rosary more often than just for close to exams.
  2. Brought me the Daily Mass.
  3. Prayed Vespers or Compline as a family.
  4. Paid more attention in their catechism classes 😛
  5. Been more active in the Parish.
 
I’m 22 & entering a religious order at the end of the month…so I hope I too can offer my own (name removed by moderator)ut? 🙂 Since hindsight seems so much better, here is what I wish my parents would have done:
1.) Taught me that in praying the Rosary we are to meditate on the Mysteries. I got so burned out as a kid 'cause I thought we had to pay attention to every word of the actual recited prayers.
2.) Shown by example and helped me form a habit of reading the Bible. It wasn’t until I was in college when I realized how ignorant I was and how rich the Church is.
3.) Do service projects as a family. My diocese attributes a growth in seminarians in part to increased focus on and promotion of stewardship. When children learn to care for others, their hearts, now servant-like, are more free to hear God’s call for *total *service and consecration to Him and His Church!

Since I didn’t get any exposure to religious life while growing up, God led me to a good Catholic college, and it was there that I found my calling and my religious order!

God bless you for being willing to support your children in whatever Christ calls them!
 
Oh yes, did not mean to exclude you all with my title! Thanks for your (name removed by moderator)ut! 🙂 👍
 
One thing that I see as important for parents is to watch your comments, even if you are making a joke of some kind.

Do not talk bad about religious or make fun of them with in the hearing range of children, this goes for all adults really.

Watch your comments.

Do not portray religious (yes even the bishops that you might not like) in a bad light.

Don’t bad mouth the Church or the Liturgy.

When a child is old enough you can talk about the abuses in the Liturgy but try to do so without bad mouthing the priests.
 
Just don’t criticize, as I know my mother will/does do about the directions my life is going. But thats merely because I am converting to Cathlicism and she doesn’t agree with it. I do know in the end she will accpet it and love me as she always has. Though a mother may not understand things their children do, sometimes the only thing they can do is put their trust into God’s hands and pray that His WIll is always being done.
 
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