How can i become a Catholic Nun?

[PinkAquarius84]

I cannot stop thinking about becoming a catholic nun. So far my mother has helped joined a different kind of catholic church where i can go through communion. Also I have read where you have to have a college education in order to become a nun. I never did well in college so i dropped out. Now I am 24 and i want to so badly to become a nun. The church that my mom and I go to have nuns. I have researched online about nuns and i saw on a website about some catholic church, they were trying to ask alot of young people to join. Well in Michigan there were alot of 20 year olds nuns who just graduated from college that are now catholic nuns. I don’t if it’s my calling. But I have lived a good life. i have always got what i wanted without working hard for it. I am blessed in so many ways. So far i am virgin and i have never had a serious relationship with a guy ever. And it seems like i am ment to be lonely. And i feel right now i would rather live my life as a nun by helping the poor and give up these worldly things that try to keep me separate from God.

I feel so restricted without a college degree.My gosh if i had a college degree right now it would be so much easier for me to become a nun.

 

[daughterofmary]

Are you Catholic?

One doesn’t always have to have a college degree to become a sister/nun. The only requirments to become a sister/nun is usually be over 18/under 35, have graduated high school, be mentally and physically healthy. A college degree is not usually a reqiurment.

Some communities would like one to either have gone to college for a couple years or to have worked for a couple years. I don’t believe it goes beyond that, and that is just for some communities. I have never known a community to specify wanting those who enter to have a degree.

Cloistered religious don’t usually need degrees and active sisters, when a degree is needed, the community will usually send the sister to get the degree needed or have a sister that already has one doing the job.

As to the community in Michigan, I believe you might be referring to the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. I don’t believe it is a requirment of theirs that a woman entering possess a degree. True, many have entered after having graduated from college, but that is not always the case. I am sure there are a number of young women in that community that entered after high school or after just completing maybe a couple years of college without having finished for a degree.

Pray about your vocation, and if it is God’s will He will work everything out for you!

 

[PinkAquarius84]

Are you Catholic?

One doesn’t always have to have a college degree to become a sister/nun. The only requirments to become a sister/nun is usually be over 18/under 35, have graduated high school, be mentally and physically healthy. A college degree is not usually a reqiurment.

Some communities would like one to either have gone to college for a couple years or to have worked for a couple years. I don’t believe it goes beyond that, and that is just for some communities. I have never known a community to specify wanting those who enter to have a degree.

Cloistered religious don’t usually need degrees and active sisters, when a degree is needed, the community will usually send the sister to get the degree needed or have a sister that already has one doing the job.

As to the community in Michigan, I believe you might be referring to the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist. I don’t believe it is a requirment of theirs that a woman entering possess a degree. True, many have entered after having graduated from college, but that is not always the case. I am sure there are a number of young women in that community that entered after high school or after just completing maybe a couple years of college without having finished for a degree.

Pray about your vocation, and if it is God’s will He will work everything out for you!

Thank you

 

[sine_modo]

Hi, i have only just seen your message so i hope it’s not too late to write something that might help.
Check out phatmass forum - there is lots of good info on convents and religious life there - sorry i can’t post the address as it is not allowed but you will find it easily enough.
You don’t have to have a degree for many places, it really does depend on the lifestyle, work and charism of eachi individual community - even then there can be exceptions as most treat each discerner as an individual.
Don’t give up, if God is calling you there is somewhere out there that He wants you to be, your part is to be open, to pray and to explore. You can contact many communities for info and visit, you will soon get a sense of the type of life you are drawn to.
Take care and enjoy the journey, you are young so you do have time to explore and have some fun on the way,
with prayer in Christ, sine modo.

 

[Dempsey1919]

Pray and deepen your spiritual life first. Read about the Saints and I would advise you to begin praying the Rosary.

Secondly, begin talking to the nuns at your church. Talk to them privately about your desire to become a nun and they will guide and help you.

This is not something to take lightly. You need to pray, pray, and pray some more. Attend Mass whenever you can and read your Bible often.

Place yourself in the care of the Blessed Virgin and she will help you.

 

[Poor_Clare_tobe]

I cannot stop thinking about becoming a catholic nun. So far my mother has helped joined a different kind of catholic church where i can go through communion. Also I have read where you have to have a college education in order to become a nun. I never did well in college so i dropped out. Now I am 24 and i want to so badly to become a nun. The church that my mom and I go to have nuns. I have researched online about nuns and i saw on a website about some catholic church, they were trying to ask alot of young people to join. Well in Michigan there were alot of 20 year olds nuns who just graduated from college that are now catholic nuns. I don’t if it’s my calling. But I have lived a good life. i have always got what i wanted without working hard for it. I am blessed in so many ways. So far i am virgin and i have never had a serious relationship with a guy ever. And it seems like i am ment to be lonely. And i feel right now i would rather live my life as a nun by helping the poor and give up these worldly things that try to keep me separate from God.

I feel so restricted without a college degree.My gosh if i had a college degree right now it would be so much easier for me to become a nun.

Pink Aquarius… there are many good posts here already… I would only add a few additional thoughts…

1. There are many threads here which you might read as they have good insights, suggestions and links to different sites to help you to begin your search.
2. yes pray pray pray and talk to your parish priest to start your journey
3. [and] not all communities require a college degree… so do start your journey… again read the various posts here as they will start you on your path and keep asking and posting !
4. one website that might help to begin is:
   vocationsplacement.org/
   Bless you and all looking at vocations!

 

[bpbasilphx]

So far my mother has helped joined a different kind of catholic church where i can go through communion.

What do you mean by “different kind of catholic church”?

 

[Poor_Clare_tobe]

So far my mother has helped joined a different kind of catholic church where i can go through communion.

What do you mean by “different kind of catholic church”?

[Yes good question… While there are different non orders of Nuns for intstance Anglican and even Lutheran Nuns… One of course supposes that to be a Catholic Nun one must be Catholic]

Aquarius what do you mean but a different Catholic Church? different how??? Please let us know if we can be of any more help and also there are many previous posts here onsite which may give you some help getting started… Good Luck on your journey !