Have you ever seriously discerned religious life?

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For example, spending time on a retreat, or as a postulant, novice, or taken temporary vow? If so, what order, if you wish to tell, and anything you may wish to add.
 
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Not seriously, but I have taken an online vocations test that shows that my best matches were the Carmelite Fathers of St Elias, Canons Regular of St John Cantius, and the Congregation of Christian Brothers.
 
That’s interesting. I did not know about such a test. Pretty cool.
 
I am currently. I had day visits and overnights at a few convents and fell in love with a Carmelite community. I’ll be writing to them to formally request entry in the very near future 🙂
 
Well I am only 14 and been trying to figure out for about a year whether or not God is calling me to be a secular priest. I think I might be called to be one, but I am going to be real careful and not just seek my own approval, but that of God’s. I pray I will develop virtue and be patient. Plus I have much to learn.
 
Tawny is a friar. I haven’t seen him too much recently, I hope he didn’t leave the forum!
 
Years ago I went on a couple of retreats, but my desire to have a family prevent me from becoming a priest.
 
Yes, I wish that I had been successful. Only tried the Olivetan Benedictines, but wish I had discerned with other communities.
 
When I was in high school I really wanted to be a nun. However, I wasn’t even Catholic then. I wanted to be Catholic.
Later I felt God was calling me to be married.
Looking back, I wish I would have become Catholic and become a Sister.
 
Per the user info, tawny is still around and posted last a few days ago.
 
Yes, I’ve stayed multiple times with some Benedictines in CT, but in the end I didn’t feel like it was the correct community. I’ve currently got scheduled, so now the waiting game begins, a week long stay with some Visitation nuns in VA. They were kind enough that, when I said I do a lot of reading and asked if there was anything that I could read that explained their life and their spirituality, they sent me books from their personal library because they said they might be hard to find. I’ve read through them all and am feeling even better about the community, plus just the personalities that I encounter in letters I exchange with them, than I did when I left the Benedictines.

One letter I got from one of the sisters apologized for using a card with pears on it since it was what was available. I told her she didn’t have to apologize, I really like pears and thought the card was pretty. Apparently that set her to chuckling when she read my response.
 
Actually @tawny is a third order Franciscan, which means, that person is a lay Franciscan.
 
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