Funny incidents while discerning a vocation

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catholictiger said:
kinda a funny movement

I’ve always been kinda shy not really outgoing, I think the seminary will help lessen that, I’m actually a lot less shy then I was a few years ago.

but anyway I was a my home parish and the bishop says mass there most of the time but sometimes not, well he was back after being gone for a month installing new pastors, and I just had this feeling that he would introduce me as a new seminarian. I was hoping he wouldn’t but of course he did and I didn’t stand up right away. lol

being shy gets to you sometimes, lol.

seminary starts in 13 days. 🙂
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😃

I can be shy too. I always find ways of embarrassing myself, so that doesn’t really help the situation either.
 
catholictiger said:
kinda a funny movement

I’ve always been kinda shy not really outgoing, I think the seminary will help lessen that, I’m actually a lot less shy then I was a few years ago.

being shy gets to you sometimes, lol.

seminary starts in 13 days. 🙂
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Congrats

I am one of those people that I don’ t like being surrounded by people I don’t know unless I am with someone I know. My nerolisgist calls it a social phobia but i am not sure that it is that extreme to call it a phobia. It is one reason I don’t like big crowds. For the most part I am to cowardly to start a conversation with someone I don’t know but with working at Walmart I have opened up a bit and am learning not to be so shy. I am not so shy once I get to know someone its just a matter of saying the first words. Even though I am shy and tend to spend a lot of time by myself, I tend to crave love from others, especially with my depression i have noticed it.

And because I am shy, I don’t feel comfortable or going in places I am not familiar with but I have noticed that with where i am going to college, I don’t feel that as much.
 
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I can be shy too. I always find ways of embarrassing myself, so that doesn’t really help the situation either.
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lol, you sound like me… but its okay… I am sorry for dragging everyone down with my dreary topic when its supposed to be filled with funny stories.
 
DevotedChild said:
lol, you sound like me… but its okay… I am sorry for dragging everyone down with my dreary topic when its supposed to be filled with funny stories.
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Eh, no problem. I guess it’s a gift of God for me to be able to laugh stuff off easily and not feel stupid all the time whenever I embarrass myself. I’m usually a “laugh it off and move on” type of person.
 
CatholicZ09 said:
Eh, no problem. I guess it’s a gift of God for me to be able to laugh stuff off easily and not feel stupid all the time whenever I embarrass myself. I’m usually a “laugh it off and move on” type of person.
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I wish that I could do that but I tend to have a more serious nature and tend to worry to much.
 
DevotedChild said:
Thanks you guys. I understand that now. I think it took me watching a movie on St. Therese for that idea to really sink in. For me, i have to see it to really understand it. And that comes from being a visual learner.

What you guys said made me realize that I have a lot to work. I know that I have a long way to go to ever be ready for the religious life. Part of it is I have depression and i have a lot of fears to work out and I am just starting college in two weeks. I also have trust issues due to how I was teased and bullied when I was younger. I am also a shy person. Those are just a few things that I need to work on but Jesus will lead me through it.

It just seems that I have a stronger attraction to that to the monastic life and the orders that really seem to stand out to me are the Carmelites and the Cisterians. I am still open to other orders but those seem to stand out more to me.
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That’s a good sign if you are open to the Holy Spirit. Just trust that God will get you to wherever it is He wants you to go.

Obviously you need to have dealt with your depression before you enter community, for your own sake. Your experiences with that may make you a better nun. You say that you are off to college, that is great as it will be a good way of helping you to discover who you are. In all of this God will be leading you.

Try to follow St Therese’s little way, just trust God. Have you read her autobiography? In it she talks about her shyness and how it made things difficult for her. Why don’t you pray and ask St Therese to help you with this.

Most people at the start of their vocation journey do not fully realise what the monastic life involves. I know I didn’t! Don’t feel bad that you didn’t realise, nobody is born knowing these things!

I will be praying for you on your discernment journey and I ask you to pray for me.

God bless
 
starsmurf said:
That’s a good sign if you are open to the Holy Spirit. Just trust that God will get you to wherever it is He wants you to go.

Obviously you need to have dealt with your before you enter community, for your own sake. Your experiences with that may make you a better nun. You say that you are off to college, that is great as it will be a good way of helping you to discover who you are. In all of this God will be leading you.

Try to follow St Therese’s little way, just trust God. Have you read her autobiography? In it she talks about her shyness and how it made things difficult for her. Why don’t you pray and ask St Therese to help you with this.

Most people at the start of their vocation journey do not fully realise what the monastic life involves. I know I didn’t! Don’t feel bad that you didn’t realise, nobody is born knowing these things!

I will be praying for you on your discernment journey and I ask you to pray for me.

God bless
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Thanks. I will pray for you.

God Bless
 
hey guys just to give you an update I have moved into seminary slowly getting accustomed to this new life style this is a very layer back day, we had a couple of talks really short just about the college and such, monday is when things get a lot busier monday, orientation all week classes start thursday I will know what I’m taking on Tuesday.
 
catholictiger said:
hey guys just to give you an update I have moved into seminary slowly getting accustomed to this new life style this is a very layer back day, we had a couple of talks really short just about the college and such, monday is when things get a lot busier monday, orientation all week classes start thursday I will know what I’m taking on Tuesday.
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I know what you mean. I moved into college a few days ago and I have been busy ever since. Tomorrow is my only day to relax before classes start the next day. I am starting to get last minute jitters. I am pretty sure that I will do fine but there are some lingering doubts in my mind that my depression brings up right now, when I am tired. I am also so grateful for what God has given me since I entered here at college, for example most of the people that I have met and made friends with are catholics, which I find most wonderful and amazing. I don’t remember asking for that but I think I do remember wishing it.

Anyway. Good luck with your classes, tiger and God bless you.
 
I was kind of shocked today at the grocery store. I was with my cousin picking up some groceries, and we only had a few things. We were going to this one line, and this guy in the other line next to us told us to go in front of him, so we did. Right when we hit that line, there was a bunch of roses next to us. I was thinking, “St. Therese, you really are making everything so obvious to me!”

It was funny, too, because yesterday I was flipping through my Catholic calendar, and I was looking to when my “Come and See” date was for the seminary, and it is October 1st, which is her feast day. 😃
 
Well I thought this was quite entertaining, I was given a few books by my parish that were put up for sale, however they wasn’t sold, in amongst them was the typical things, writings of the Holy Father, a couple of philosophy/theology books, however there was also a book called “how not to celebrate mass” (I’ld say the author but the book is not to hand), I cracked a small smile, and thought one of my fellow parishioners (or even the Lord) was giving me a sly hint lol.
 
So a few minutes ago I was in prayer praying about my vocation. I was thinking about the life of holiness a priest has to live and the big duty of being a priest. I was feeling rather insignificant and thinking why God be possibly calling me or maybe that he’s not calling me. I then received a phone call from a priest from the diocesan vocations panel asking me to send in an additional document. That was such an amazing coincidence or maybe it was Gods way of reassuring me. Whatever it was I’m certainly feeling more confident now
 
I was at daily mass at a church that I had not been to in 5-10 years and as such didn’t know the priest or anyone else there. As the priest processed down the aisle he stopped and thanked me for being there and told me he was glad I was at mass.

This struck me as kind of odd but mass went on and as he processed back down the aisle he stopped to talk to me a bit more. He asked where I was in life, and I told him that I would be graduating in 3 months with a degree in economics and finance. (I didn’t mention anything about my ongoing discernment and application to the seminary.) He responded with “Oh so you’re not going to be a priest?”

Coincidence or not little silly things like that really help to ease the mind… at least temporarily haha.
 
DevotedChild said:
Congrats

I am one of those people that I don’ t like being surrounded by people I don’t know unless I am with someone I know. My nerolisgist calls it a social phobia but i am not sure that it is that extreme to call it a phobia. It is one reason I don’t like big crowds. For the most part I am to cowardly to start a conversation with someone I don’t know but with working at Walmart I have opened up a bit and am learning not to be so shy. I am not so shy once I get to know someone its just a matter of saying the first words. Even though I am shy and tend to spend a lot of time by myself, I tend to crave love from others, especially with my depression i have noticed it.

And because I am shy, I don’t feel comfortable or going in places I am not familiar with but I have noticed that with where i am going to college, I don’t feel that as much.
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Haha you sound a lot like me.

I have found that the dislike of big crowds and reluctance to randomly strike up conversation is not necessarily a bad thing. It even provides additional time to leave the world of noise we live in. I would even venture to assume that when someone looks to you for help or to discuss God that shyness seems to vanish?

It is probably personal bias due to past experiences, but I seem to believe that our society defines what is “normal” social and psychological behaviors based on what a society values. Labels for social anxiety and all sorts of things are placed on people who do not conform to the norms our society has established… You are told you have a problem because you are who God made you and not who society thinks you should be.

But, conforming to norms which have been established by a society which exalts the proud, and permits the murder of unborn children is hardly anything to aspire to.

God has need for both introverts as well as extroverts and each person has a very special mission. Be yourself!
 
Templar26 said:
Haha you sound a lot like me.

I have found that the dislike of big crowds and reluctance to randomly strike up conversation is not necessarily a bad thing. It even provides additional time to leave the world of noise we live in. I would even venture to assume that when someone looks to you for help or to discuss God that shyness seems to vanish?

It is probably personal bias due to past experiences, but I seem to believe that our society defines what is “normal” social and psychological behaviors based on what a society values. Labels for social anxiety and all sorts of things are placed on people who do not conform to the norms our society has established… You are told you have a problem because you are who God made you and not who society thinks you should be.

But, conforming to norms which have been established by a society which exalts the proud, and permits the murder of unborn children is hardly anything to aspire to.

God has need for both introverts as well as extroverts and each person has a very special mission. Be yourself!
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Thanks so much for your words. They have touched me.

This “phobia” is what keep me from getting a spiritual director for the longest time but sense entering college I have met some wonderful people and found a priest to be my spiritual director and I just love him.

Even though my spiritual director has told me that God wants me to focus on school right now rather then discerning I still spend a lot of time in prayer.

Here is my funny story: One day I am in the chapel infront of the tabernactal and just talking to Jesus and I kept getting thoughts that would just make me laugh and I did laugh. Jesus made me laugh that day.
 
Ok here one experence of many, Well I am adopted and when I frist felt Gods call I changed my name back to my Birth Name but the Name got mis-spelled on the form and instead of Ava it was printed out to read Avia. Ava means white bird in spanish which is my birth name but all the documents came back and read Avia which means The way in Spanish. A few months later I went to a talk by a visiting Priest at my Parish . I was sitting in the Church I was early so I was just praying about my discernment and something made me look up from prayer and toward the back of the Church. At the enterence I see a older women in a wheelchair she seemed to be shearching for the best place to go I got up and asked if she needed help finding a place to sit , she replyed she was looking to see where the best place might be for her out of the way of others and sugested that we try going down the side isle in the front and helped her to a place where she could see the alter and be in a safe spot. She asked my name and still shy about the mix up I told her my name I answered my name is Avia and then she said " the way " and I asked if she spoke spanish and she said she did a litte. She then asked," and are you the way? " I said and I dont know what made me say this but I said I am one who follows the way I walk in His way and I am she points to the Path of Our Lord who is the Way . Later I was looking for my friend who I invited there and this same woman asked who I was looking for I said I was hoping my friend would come as I had invited her. She said as if it was the most natural thing to say just as we would say make a phone call , She said to me just send the Holy Sprit to her and she will hear you. I thought to myself I am not sure I know how but I kelt to pray and asked the Holy Spirt to help and convay the message to my friend . After a few moments my phone rang it was my friend saying she just remember the talk at the Church this evening but could not come because she was working. I almost fainted. Well it did not end there This woman and I talk till the visiting prist began his talk when Father offered to annoint all who wanted it I turn to find her gon , Now this at first may not seem strange but as she was in a wheel chair and could not turn in the Isle and would have had to pass in front of me to exist the nearest side door to the Chuch I was agian left in wonder. Blessed is His Holy Name Your Sister in Christ Avia Maria Lucia Montoya
 
AMMontoya said:
Ok here one experence of many, Well I am adopted and when I frist felt Gods call I changed my name back to my Birth Name but the Name got mis-spelled on the form and instead of Ava it was printed out to read Avia. Ava means white bird in spanish which is my birth name but all the documents came back and read Avia which means The way in Spanish. A few months later I went to a talk by a visiting Priest at my Parish . I was sitting in the Church I was early so I was just praying about my discernment and something made me look up from prayer and toward the back of the Church. At the enterence I see a older women in a wheelchair she seemed to be shearching for the best place to go I got up and asked if she needed help finding a place to sit , she replyed she was looking to see where the best place might be for her out of the way of others and sugested that we try going down the side isle in the front and helped her to a place where she could see the alter and be in a safe spot. She asked my name and still shy about the mix up I told her my name I answered my name is Avia and then she said " the way " and I asked if she spoke spanish and she said she did a litte. She then asked," and are you the way? " I said and I dont know what made me say this but I said I am one who follows the way I walk in His way and I am she points to the Path of Our Lord who is the Way . Later I was looking for my friend who I invited there and this same woman asked who I was looking for I said I was hoping my friend would come as I had invited her. She said as if it was the most natural thing to say just as we would say make a phone call , She said to me just send the Holy Sprit to her and she will hear you. I thought to myself I am not sure I know how but I kelt to pray and asked the Holy Spirt to help and convay the message to my friend . After a few moments my phone rang it was my friend saying she just remember the talk at the Church this evening but could not come because she was working. I almost fainted. Well it did not end there This woman and I talk till the visiting prist began his talk when Father offered to annoint all who wanted it I turn to find her gon , Now this at first may not seem strange but as she was in a wheel chair and could not turn in the Isle and would have had to pass in front of me to exist the nearest side door to the Chuch I was agian left in wonder. Blessed is His Holy Name Your Sister in Christ Avia Maria Lucia Montoya
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oh my gosh! Blessed Be the Lord. That’s a wonderful story. Thanks for sharing.
 
I was reading and article on Dominican Sprituality in the Catholic Digest while listening to my MP3 player which was on a random shuffle. In the middle of reading the lyrics of the song just “clicked.” “Take me far from all I know, to live a life that’s not my own.”

Coincidence, I think not.
 
White_Peony said:
I was reading and article on Dominican Sprituality in the Catholic Digest while listening to my MP3 player which was on a random shuffle. In the middle of reading the lyrics of the song just “clicked.” “Take me far from all I know, to live a life that’s not my own.”

Coincidence, I think not.
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Oh wow how wonderful. There was a article that I once read about a nun’s dicernment or it was post somewhere on this site that this girl was praying about what vocation God wanted for her to take and then she hears “wil you marry me” in a voice comes out of her speakers where she was listening to music from.
 
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