please pray for my vocation

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Hi all, please pray for me, I want to be a nun, I am quite interested in the Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia. The only thing that might be holding me back is previous mental health issues. I’m doing great now though. I am going to a retreat that the Sisters are holding in October to get to know them. Please help me to be at my best and to pray with a pure heart in regards to my vocation. I pray to do Gods will. At this point in time I feel him telling me to keep trying orders and be open to different options. Im looking to join a contemplative/active order as I have been very quickly rejected from fully contemplative orders based on my history.
Thank you 🙂 God bless you all +++
 
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Hi all, please pray for me, I want to be a nun, I am quite interested in the Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia. The only thing that might be holding me back is previous mental health issues. I’m doing great now though. I am going to a retreat that the Sisters are holding in October to get to know them. Please help me to be at my best and to pray with a pure heart in regards to my vocation. I pray to do Gods will. At this point in time I feel him telling me to keep trying orders and be open to different options. Im looking to join a contemplative/active order as I have been very quickly rejected from fully contemplative orders based on my history.
Thank you 🙂 God bless you all +++
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From my viewpoint, there are quite a number of crazy nuns and priests.
Knock every door you wish and take the Yes and Nos God given gifts.
I think you are right on giving all the data you have related to the problems you have. It clears the field.
Relax and take it ease. There are great saint who were not nuns. And if God wants you to be a nun, I tell you, you wont be able to escape.
So … relax … You are in His Hands …
 
I hope you find your true calling.

I personally, and this is just my opinion, feel that at this point in the world we need a resurgence of Roman Catholic identity and support. I admire deeply your call to a contemplative life, but I’d like to just ask a question?

Have you considered channeling your desire to serve the Church into other fields? Perhaps an order that does work to help spread Catholicism or strengthen the faith of our adherents?

I am by no means saying that you should abandon a contemplative life, I just predict that you’ll get a lot of replies saying “I will pray for your vocation/Best of luck!/God Bless you! etc.” So I just wanted to give you a little something more.

The Church needs more workers in the vineyard of the Lord. Have you considered other paths to serving the Church?

Just some thoughts, and again, you have my admiration for your choice to lead such a rewarding yet challenging life.
 
Christine, I am oly too happy to pray for you. My son wants to be a priest and found the going a little tuff due to his age and ‘old fashion’ views (yes it is possible toe too old fashion in the Catholic Church apparently 🤷) he is now attending a Maronite church (eastern rite). Perhaps you could talk with them and see if it could work for you. Good luck and God Bless. Kylie Robson
 
May the Holy Spirit lead you to the right religious community. May your retreat be filled with holy inspirations, discernment, and holy resolutions. May your visit with this community help you and this particular community decide if you make a good candidate with them. May you pray with a pure heart and let God do marvels in your soul. May your mental health issues not preclude you from entering a good religious order. May you keep making inquiries until a suitable community is found. May God give you strength, courage, wisdom, patience, discernment, and peace. Amen.
 
Hail Mary,
Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit
of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary,
Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
Lord please guide our sister in her vocation

Hail Mary, Full of Grace,
The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners now,
and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
 
Dear Loving Father,
As our sister discerns this special vocational calling, guide her to the place where she may serve you in the greatest faithfulness. Use whatever challenges she has as a gift to help others, so that she may glorify you through her work, her love for others and her life.
We come to you with this request through your son, who gave his life for us.
Amen
 
The Prayer to Mary for Vocations below is an ideal choice of prayer for you, and thus, we pray:

Prayer for Vocations

Lord Jesus, let your call be heard
by the fervent and generous hearts
of young people, and make them
your followers and ministers.
Provident and loving Jesus,
grant to those whom you call
the necessary means to succeed
and the grace to persevere.
May they meet the demands of their call
and become salt of the earth
and light of the world,
holy ministers and dispensers
of the mysteries of God.
We ask you for vocations
for the whole Church,
vocations according to your heart,
numerous enough
to meet the pressing needs
of your Church and the world.
Send true shepherds of souls
filled with the Holy Spirit.
May their hearts be detached
from all worldly entanglements.
Make your priests holy, Lord,
splendid and exceptional witnesses
to the world
that the humankind cannot be transformed
without the spirit of the Beatitudes.
Amen.

Prayer to Mary for Vocations

O VIrgin Mary,
Mother of Jesus,
and Mother of the Church,
to you we commend
our young people,
in particular those
called to closely follow
your Son.
You know the difficulties,
the struggles,
the obstacles they must face.
Assist them to answer “yes”
to the divine call, as you did
at the invitation of the angel.
Draw them near to your heart
so that they can understand
the beauty and the joy that
awaits them when the Lord Jesus
calls them into His intimacy,
to be witnesses of His love
in the world. Amen.
 
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