"Be a Nun for a Weekend" 2005

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Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey will host a Vocation Discernment weekend for women who may be interested in or discerning religious life. To learn more about this weekend retreat or to register, click here.

mississippiabbey.org/

The date on the website is not updated. I know Our Lady of the Mississippi hosts these weekends three times a year. Contact them to find out the next available weekend.
 
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Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey will host a Vocation Discernment weekend for women who may be interested in or discerning religious life. To learn more about this weekend retreat or to register, click here.

mississippiabbey.org/

The date on the website is not updated. I know Our Lady of the Mississippi hosts these weekends three times a year. Contact them to find out the next available weekend.
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I am a guy.😦
 
I have a 10 year old daughter who has been saying she wants to be a nun for about 2 years now. I don’t want to push her towards anything, but I do want to nurture. I have frequently heard about Priests and Nuns who knew they wanted to be such at the age of 7 or so. What is the minimum age that an order would consider letting someone like my daughter come in and take a look?
 
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I have a 10 year old daughter who has been saying she wants to be a nun for about 2 years now. I don’t want to push her towards anything, but I do want to nurture. I have frequently heard about Priests and Nuns who knew they wanted to be such at the age of 7 or so. What is the minimum age that an order would consider letting someone like my daughter come in and take a look?
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Hello GoodForm!
This is a good question to ask the vocations director of the religious order your daughter is interested in. I know a 29 year old women who entered recently. She had made occasional visits since the age of 2! Her aunt belongs to the the group she joined.
 
I wish they had done something like this years ago when I was entertaining the idea of entering a convent. I am happily married, but I sometimes wonder if I may have chosen a different vocational path if there were more encounters such as this one.
 
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I have a 10 year old daughter who has been saying she wants to be a nun for about 2 years now. I don’t want to push her towards anything, but I do want to nurture. I have frequently heard about Priests and Nuns who knew they wanted to be such at the age of 7 or so. What is the minimum age that an order would consider letting someone like my daughter come in and take a look?
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I would think age 18?
 
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I would think age 18?
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It depends on the order. I have not heard of any that allow people to stay over night before their teen years, but when I attended a parochial grammar school, that was then affiliated with a convent, they had day trips, where we walked through the convernt and saw where everything was and heard about the daily schedules of nun. Of course the convent was then adjacent to the school’s property.

I would think that there must be some convents who would be interested in helping you arrange a “go see” trip for you and your daughter. They probably don’t have anything formally arranged, but most nuns are very open to sharng their vocations. If you are fortunate to live near a few religious communities, you should call them and ask. The worst they can say is “no” and it’s a great idea. May be you could. even ask your daughter’s faith formation teacher or school teacher (if she is in a Catholic school).
 
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I have a 10 year old daughter who has been saying she wants to be a nun for about 2 years now. I don’t want to push her towards anything, but I do want to nurture. I have frequently heard about Priests and Nuns who knew they wanted to be such at the age of 7 or so. What is the minimum age that an order would consider letting someone like my daughter come in and take a look?
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GoodForm:

Here is a searchable link that you can use to get contact information about various orders in the state you are in:
religiousministries.com/index.asp
Many of the links have web sites and vocation contact information.

PF
 
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I have a 10 year old daughter who has been saying she wants to be a nun for about 2 years now. I don’t want to push her towards anything, but I do want to nurture. I have frequently heard about Priests and Nuns who knew they wanted to be such at the age of 7 or so. What is the minimum age that an order would consider letting someone like my daughter come in and take a look?
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That is so awesome. Thanks for sharing this about your daughter. It really made my day. I will definately be praying for her and for your family. That is so beautiful that a child at such a young age is so in love with God!

God bless all of you!
 
I’m a boy but I think this is a great idea!

Priest for a Weekend?!

Michael 😃
 
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I have a 10 year old daughter who has been saying she wants to be a nun for about 2 years now. I don’t want to push her towards anything, but I do want to nurture. I have frequently heard about Priests and Nuns who knew they wanted to be such at the age of 7 or so. What is the minimum age that an order would consider letting someone like my daughter come in and take a look?
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My 7 yr old has been saying that she wants to be a nun who is a missionary for 2 years. She has had a “poor box” in her bedroom since she was 5 and had a rosary club in our neighborhood, she begged me to buy them all rosaries (their familes all happened to be nonpracticing Catholics,)teaching the kids how to pray the rosary. She reads the Bible and about the saints with great fervor. She gives the kids in the neighborhood toys and books,etc. etc.because she wants to give to the poor and to her friends. IT was very frustrating to her to have to wait until she was 7 to receive Communion. She takes her religion very seriously. She already feels very strongly about being a sister, and has taken it upon herself to learn other languages and about other cultures so that, as she says, she will be ready to become a missionary. She tries to learn all about animals so she can help with their animals. It took us by suprise at first, but after two years of ever inceasing intensity, we are getting used to the idea. Of course, I have no idea whether she will continue to feel this way, but she says she doesn’t want to get married and have children because she has so many orphans to take care of!

I can remember feeling strongly as a young child about my vocation as a mother, so maybe this will be what she does with her life. I try to be encouraging, but always tell her we will support whatever vocation she chooses. She always insists that she will be a nun.
 
Wow, Peace-bwu. What a daughter. To think like that at such a young age. Amazing. God’s work in action, and a sign that He hasn’t given up on us.

I, too, wonder if this will subside in my daughter. I tell all my kids (5), that they have a calling, and they need to pray a lot in order to know what God wants them to do. So I keep encouraging her to pray.

I mentioned to my daughter that I’m going to see if there is somewhere she can spend an afternoon or a full day, and her eyes lit right up.
 
How wonderful that God is working in such a forceful way in the lives of you beautiful daughters.

God bless you both and your children.

CARose
 
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CARose:
How wonderful that God is working in such a forceful way in the lives of you beautiful daughters.

God bless you both and your children.

CARose
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Ditto!
 
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