Experiencing somewhat of a calling to be a nun

[Silyosha]

I know 15 is VERY, VERY young to be making any huge decisions about my future, but for the past 6 months or so I’ve been on the fence about considering becoming a nun. I’d love to get married and have a family, but I’d also love to spend my life totally devoted to God. There’s no way I’m going to decide this now, but what do you think?

 

[CarmeliteGirl25]

I think it’s wonderful to be open to both. I think you really need a qualified spiritual director to hash out the emotions from the actual spiritual guidance from God in your heart. He is leading you somewhere, and it will be beyond your imagining. Just know that you have much time and you don’t have to make a decision right away. There are so many beautiful religious orders in the Church (Carmelites being my favorite, of course ), so just take some time to look at several, narrowing it down until you find a few you want to look into in a few years (most vocation retreats require you to be at least 17 or 18). Do some research and see what your passion is (like, if you want to be a teacher, there are some awesome teaching orders, i.e. the Dominicans of Ann Arbor or Nashville). Talk to people in the Church and build up a good rapport with your parish priest. Here are some links to help you:

religiouslife.com/

vocation-network.org/

vocationsplacement.org/

vocation.com/

Contact your diocese’s Vocation Director and see if he/she can help you find a qualified spiritual director to help you out. What really helped me was reading about the lives of the saints.

God bless! I’ll be praying for you!

 

[Silyosha]

I think it’s wonderful to be open to both. I think you really need a qualified spiritual director to hash out the emotions from the actual spiritual guidance from God in your heart. He is leading you somewhere, and it will be beyond your imagining. Just know that you have much time and you don’t have to make a decision right away. There are so many beautiful religious orders in the Church (Carmelites being my favorite, of course ), so just take some time to look at several, narrowing it down until you find a few you want to look into in a few years (most vocation retreats require you to be at least 17 or 18). Do some research and see what your passion is (like, if you want to be a teacher, there are some awesome teaching orders, i.e. the Dominicans of Ann Arbor or Nashville). Talk to people in the Church and build up a good rapport with your parish priest. Here are some links to help you:

religiouslife.com/

vocation-network.org/

Thanks a lot, I will check out those websites.

vocationsplacement.org/

vocation.com/

Contact your diocese’s Vocation Director and see if he/she can help you find a qualified spiritual director to help you out. What really helped me was reading about the lives of the saints.

God bless! I’ll be praying for you!

 

[Cloisters]

I know 15 is VERY, VERY young to be making any huge decisions about my future, but for the past 6 months or so I’ve been on the fence about considering becoming a nun. I’d love to get married and have a family, but I’d also love to spend my life totally devoted to God. There’s no way I’m going to decide this now, but what do you think?

I am grateful to God to see that our prayers for younger vocations are being answered. Would that they could be habited and attending public school!

Considering your quote at the bottom of your posts, I would say that you should start at the feet of the monstrance.

Here are a couple of more links:

cloisters.tripod.com/

groups.yahoo.com/group/young_vocations/

The youngest that one can be accepted into the novitiate is 17, so no, you’re not too young to be called. Just keep your senses about you, and remember that the Holy Ghost works on attraction.

Blessings,
Cloisters

 

[Califman831]

I know 15 is VERY, VERY young to be making any huge decisions about my future, but for the past 6 months or so I’ve been on the fence about considering becoming a nun. I’d love to get married and have a family, but I’d also love to spend my life totally devoted to God. There’s no way I’m going to decide this now, but what do you think?

You will be married to our lord and take care of his millions of children. Look into a traditional convent. God Bless You.

 

[Sister_Rose]

I’m very glad to hear that you are considering religious life. 15 may be to young to enter, but it is not to young to discern where the Lord is calling you.
Work on your relationship with Christ. Try to pray(especially the rosary), go to Mass and adoration, read the bible, the lives of the saints, participate in Church activities and do works of charity and self denial. These will help you no matter what God is calling you to. Yes, see if you can get a good spiritual director.
Your vocation will become more clear in God’s time.
God bless you.

 

[Silyosha]

I’m very glad to hear that you are considering religious life. 15 may be to young to enter, but it is not to young to discern where the Lord is calling you.
Work on your relationship with Christ. Try to pray(especially the rosary), go to Mass and adoration, read the bible, the lives of the saints, participate in Church activities and do works of charity and self denial. These will help you no matter what God is calling you to. Yes, see if you can get a good spiritual director.
Your vocation will become more clear in God’s time.
God bless you.

Thank you

 

[GilChrist77]

I know 15 is VERY, VERY young to be making any huge decisions about my future, but for the past 6 months or so I’ve been on the fence about considering becoming a nun. I’d love to get married and have a family, but I’d also love to spend my life totally devoted to God. There’s no way I’m going to decide this now, but what do you think?

First of all it makes me very happy to “meet” another young women who is thinking about religious life. I received my call when I was twelve. I’m seventeen now and am hoping, God willing, to enter the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor MI in August.
To me the most important thing is to spend time in silent prayer. Go to Adoration or take a walk or even just sit on your bed, but don’t talk just listen to God. I’ve found that more often then not God speaks in the quite of my heart. Sometimes He’ll speak to me through a song or through someone else but mostly it’s in the silence that I’ve heard Him.

I will keep you in my prayers! God bless you on this wonderful journey where ever it may end up!

JMJ+
~Betsy

Totus tuus Maria!

 

[Silyosha]

First of all it makes me very happy to “meet” another young women who is thinking about religious life. I received my call when I was twelve. I’m seventeen now and am hoping, God willing, to enter the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann Arbor MI in August.
To me the most important thing is to spend time in silent prayer. Go to Adoration or take a walk or even just sit on your bed, but don’t talk just listen to God. I’ve found that more often then not God speaks in the quite of my heart. Sometimes He’ll speak to me through a song or through someone else but mostly it’s in the silence that I’ve heard Him.

I will keep you in my prayers! God bless you on this wonderful journey where ever it may end up!

JMJ+
~Betsy

Totus tuus Maria!

Thank you very much. I’m glad to “meet” another, too.