Can I take my pets if I become a nun?

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This is what it says online about her and her husband
In 1991, Patrick Latta, a successful businessman and car dealer in Canada, and his wife Nancy, a commercial lawyer, received a great grace of conversion through the messages of Our Lady of Medjugorje. Leaving behind everything they had created in their material world, they moved to Medjugorje in 1993, during the height of the war. With Fr. Slavko Barbaric, OFM as their spiritual guide and confessor until his death in Nov. of 2000.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Retreat House was born, with a specific desire to support, renew, and foster vocations to the priesthood and regligious life.
Now after 15 years of living in Medjugorje and 12 years construction, streams of pilgrims from around the world come to Our Lady’s Retreat House to honor her as the Queen of Peace.
 
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No, that’s not what I’m proposing at all.
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I was only commenting based on what you wrote. It definitely seems as though you think she shouldn’t be a nun unless her parents give per permission, even though she is a legal adult.
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I will never encourage someone to disobey their parents. The Bible is very clear that we are to obey our parents.

If Rosie truly feels called to become a nun, then she should seek her parent’s, her family’s, permission. To defy her family is to show them disrespect and possibly, to bring shame upon her tribe.
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Why not have a look at consecrated viginity instead. That way you get to keep you pets and fulfill your obligations to them. You need to talk to a spiritual director. God Bless.
 
If I changed my mind I would still follow through once I commit to something I won’t go back
 
I do feel she should have her family’s consent in this, yes. Going against one’s family esp with the culture being so vastly different could have serious repercussions that she hasn’t thought through.

Yes, she can defy her family and her tribe and leave if she has the courage to do so. But she won’t be prepared for the loss of that support network she has relied on her entire life.

Encouraging someone to do wrong when you don’t know the culture they live in is wrong. I’ve done the research.

That’s why I encourage her to get her family’s permission before leaving. That way, she shows her family honor and respect and is able to leave on a positive note. And should she become a nun and be assigned to work with her tribe, they will be more likely to listen to since she didn’t run off in defiance to chase an elusive dream but left to purse a new rewarding way of life with the approval of her elders.
 
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I never advocated her running off in defiance. But adults don’t need to obey their parents. They need to hear their parents out and be respectful, even if they make their own decisions. There is another thread on here with a young man wanting to go to a college that his parents don’t want him to go to and the advice he is getting is SO different to this! Culture be darned, honestly. Especially when said culture oppresses females. Rosie can be respectful and still do something besides get married off or live at home forever, in a childlike state.
 
I don’t believe I will lose my support network because what i want to do isn’t a sin against god now if I where running off with a man yes I’d lose everyone I’d be considered unclean sleeping around is a sin against god, but leaving to become a nun isn’t yes they’d probably be angry at me at first but I wouldn’t lose them and besides my grandparents are very supportive of me and are very proud that I want to become a nun
 
I’m glad you have your grandparents support. Maybe they can help the rest of your family come around.
 
Its where you follow a path of taking vows of a nin but you live in your own community i.e you have a job, live in your own aparment and carry on daily life outside a convent. Google has lots of info.
 
I second everyone who suggested taking time plus spiritual direction. The way I see it, at this moment, it’s at least not clear that you should enter a convent if departing from your pets is already too great a sacrifice to make. I also saw that you said not all nuns make a vow of poverty. They all do in fact; the religious. It’s priests who don’t make a vow of poverty (they make the other two). I wish you the best but I’d caution that if you were ready, you’d be ready to sacrifice your life with your pets, just as you are with your family. Maybe taking another year or two to really discern deeper with a director is not a bad idea. It may be the right vocation but the wrong time, but who knows? Prayers for you.
 
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If push came to shove I could leave them but I want to explore all options so I know deep down that I did everything I could to keep them
 
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