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I found my home! I went to the retreat this weekend with the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus in Milwaukee, WI and loved every minute of it. I hated having to return home and when I woke up this morning, I was sad that I wasn’t there. Sr. Immaculata, the Superior of the house, offered me an application yesterday on the way to the airport, so I emailed her this morning to ask her to please mail it to me!

I firmly believe in the power of prayer. I asked St. Therese for a rose if I was called there. I had forgotten about that prayer until I saw my pictures last night. (see attached picture below)

Plus, I had goosebumps when the Sisters put on their mantles for Sunday Mass. I almost cried in Adoration several times. I wanted a picture in front of the Blessed Sacrament, and I didn’t know whether to take it because two Sisters were there as well. Sr. M. Zachary got up and asked if I wanted a picture! Can you think of a better answer! 😃

Each and every one of those Sisters are my family now. I love them very much. Please pray for them! And please pray for me that this application process brings me much peace if it is God’s will. God bless you!
 
That is amazing! I am so happy for you. You have found your home. I will be praying for wisdom on your application and grace for those who read it! I see God’s joy shining in you, as you discover what He destined you to do! Congradulations!

Kristina

PS: I like that you asked for a rose as an answer. I am doing that also!
 
ladybuggirl84 said:
That is amazing! I am so happy for you. You have found your home. I will be praying for wisdom on your application and grace for those who read it! I see God’s joy shining in you, as you discover what He destined you to do! Congradulations!

Kristina

PS: I like that you asked for a rose as an answer. I am doing that also!
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Thank you, Kristina. I pray that you receive your rose from St. Therese. She helped me so much! 😃
 
Oh, now I have goosebumps and am so excited! God bless you and all your new sisters. This is the most wonderful news. Have thought of you all weekend and couldn’t wait to read your email.
Kathgirl
 
You are so happy! I really envy you!.. I’ve been praying about you often and I’m happy to see that your dreams are coming true… Will you be able to visit the forums occasionally when you’d be in the monastery? I will miss conversations with you! If you wouldn’t have chance to go online, would you mind sending few snail mails to Russia? 🙂

I’m continuing to be on my way, but I have to wait and wait. I’m waiting for the money I’m expecting for exchanging my flat to a smaller one. Then I would be free to travel and visit different communities. I’m really having many worries about all these communities - I really want to get a clear sign which one is for me… The sisters in Florence I’m communicating with most often, write me things that scare me a little - about difficulties I might encounter while entering a community where everyone is older than me. I really don’t know how would I “fit” in the group of women who are older than me and who belong to other country and culture. I have experience of living in communities, in harsh conditions (10 years of scientific expeditions every summer!), but all times I was surrounded by russians and didn’t have language/culture barriers. May be I’m afraid too much, of course…
I plan to travel around Europe a lot this summer, as soon as I’d have money. I got a secret plan to make a side trip to Spain to visit Calaruega, st.Dominic’s birthplace. And I want to visit as many dominican shrines as possible 🙂
I have not much support here at home. My friends keep telling me that I should not exchange my flat, that I should gain the money by giving a room or two for rent instead. But simple calculations show that I will have to work without a vacation and also share a house with strangers for a couple of years before I would be able to make the travels I need. And I don’t want to lose time. I think I’ve lost too much time already, by not following my vocation earlier, when I was still “fitting” my favorite congregation’s age limit…
The other thing makes me feel not easy, too - I always imagined dominicans as teachers/preachers before all, and a friend told me that I wouldn’t make a good one in a foreign country, that people and children wouldn’t take me seriously because I would never know their native language perfectly…
I started learning italian, anyway - it will be useful for me if I’m going to stay for a month or two in Italy. Even if I’d finally discover that I’m destined for a community in another place, it would be an experience I definitely want to have. And, the sisters in Florence are very nice and I just want to live with them a little and help them. I have some doubts that I’m destined to exactly their community, but I need to see it for myself, and I want to be helpful for a period of my stay.
I really need to find “my” community… and it’s hard to come to a conclusion via the Internet. I need to see real places and real people.

Aww, I really envy you a lot. Please, don’t forget me when you’d become a Carmelite 😉
 
Inity said:
You are so happy! I really envy you!.. I’ve been praying about you often and I’m happy to see that your dreams are coming true… Will you be able to visit the forums occasionally when you’d be in the monastery? I will miss conversations with you! If you wouldn’t have chance to go online, would you mind sending few snail mails to Russia? 🙂

Aww, I really envy you a lot. Please, don’t forget me when you’d become a Carmelite 😉
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Fortunately, it isn’t a monastery, but a convent, so I would still have limited access to the internet (on home visits and such). I don’t know about the forums, but rest assured that I will not forget you, Inity. I pray that you are able to visit the Dominicans and that you find the place that Jesus is calling you. You will know when you are there. I felt at home with my new Sisters and I knew I could be myself around them and I felt unafraid. I feel completely at peace with my decision. I had uneasiness before I left but all that fear has been dispelled. My confidence has been restored and I’m sure that Jesus wants me in Carmel.

My aunt actually was here a little while ago and when I told her of my decision, she said, “How can you be certain? You’ve not visited anywhere else.” I know in my heart. You can’t explain what’s in your heart. I had no trouble trying to stand up for my vocation but I did it in a loving, non-argumentative way. If you truly believe something, it becomes very easy to stand up for it. Especially when God is calling you to something more than yourself. 😃

God bless you, Inity!
 
Congratulations cgirl! Did you ever think about starting a blog or a webpage so we can follow you on your journey? I’ll keep praying for you! I am so happy for you! You have been so helpful to me and to others in this forum…what an honor and a blessing it has been to me. :flowers: There not roses-but here’s another bouquet for your wedding.
 
:yeah_me: :heaven: :nun1:

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S

There is no doubt in my mind that you have found your true calling. God love you! Make sure to explore Milwaukee before you settle in. The museum has a wonderful American Indian display. Gesu church on the campus of Marquette is where Scott Hahn discovered his calling to Catholicism. He started going to mass in the basement of the church just to observe and God called him to Catholicism. 😉
 
Lainey63 said:
Congratulations cgirl! Did you ever think about starting a blog or a webpage so we can follow you on your journey? I’ll keep praying for you! I am so happy for you! You have been so helpful to me and to others in this forum…what an honor and a blessing it has been to me. :flowers: There not roses-but here’s another bouquet for your wedding.
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Awwwwww! You are too sweet! God bless you. :crossrc:
 
onetruechurch said:
:yeah_me: :heaven: :nun1:

C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S

There is no doubt in my mind that you have found your true calling. God love you! Make sure to explore Milwaukee before you settle in. The museum has a wonderful American Indian display. Gesu church on the campus of Marquette is where Scott Hahn discovered his calling to Catholicism. He started going to mass in the basement of the church just to observe and God called him to Catholicism. 😉
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I plan to go back up to Milwaukee after I get a job (I have run out of money 😦 ), so I will hopefully spend longer than a weekend with them. The Boys’ home that the Sisters run was decorated with American Indian stuff, I bet the museum is where they got the idea. 🙂 👍
 
Lainey63 said:
Congratulations cgirl! Did you ever think about starting a blog or a webpage so we can follow you on your journey? I’ll keep praying for you! I am so happy for you! You have been so helpful to me and to others in this forum…what an honor and a blessing it has been to me. :flowers: There not roses-but here’s another bouquet for your wedding.
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I do have a blog at:

journeytojesus.wordpress.com/

I try to keep it updated when I can! 🙂
 
you are so lucky… i wanted to inquire a community too but my spiritual director told me not to until i finish college.
 
ThomasEugene said:
you are so lucky… i wanted to inquire a community too but my spiritual director told me not to until i finish college.
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Actually, I consider myself unworthy. I’ve done things in the past (that have been forgiven) that make me feel unworthy to receive this call. But I feel it would be a sin unto myself and God to hear the call and not respond. 😉
 
I “grabbed” your blog into LiveJournal syndication, to receive updated via my LJ friends page (I usually keep forgetting to visit stand-alone blogs, but always read my LJ friends page)
The syndication is here (for LiveJournal users who may want to use it):
syndicated.livejournal.com/carmelitegirl

How soon are you entering the convent? You said that you are planning to get a job…
I’m feeling uncomfortable sometimes about having a job now, but going to leave it as soon as I’d have money for my travels… They are nice people and the job is good, and I feel myself a “cheater” by not telling them that I possibly won’t stay here long. But I need the money to survive, and no one would employ me if I’d say “I’m considering joining the convent soon”!
 
Inity said:
I “grabbed” your blog into LiveJournal syndication, to receive updated via my LJ friends page (I usually keep forgetting to visit stand-alone blogs, but always read my LJ friends page)
The syndication is here (for LiveJournal users who may want to use it):
syndicated.livejournal.com/carmelitegirl

How soon are you entering the convent? You said that you are planning to get a job…
I’m feeling uncomfortable sometimes about having a job now, but going to leave it as soon as I’d have money for my travels… They are nice people and the job is good, and I feel myself a “cheater” by not telling them that I possibly won’t stay here long. But I need the money to survive, and no one would employ me if I’d say “I’m considering joining the convent soon”!
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LOL! I don’t know how soon. Some of the Sisters entered a few months after they were accepted. For me, since I still have debt to pay off (about $1,500), it will probably be a little longer. I’m thinking about asking for either entrance on the Feast of the Sacred Heart (June 2010) or the Feast of St. Therese (Oct. 1st, 2010). I want to be able to spend this time with my family and grow a little more before joining. 🙂
 
CONGRATULATIONS :flowers: I will hold you in my prayers today 😃

I too am trying to decerne my vocation, at the moment I am being pulled to the Dominican Secular Institute. I put my trust in the Lord knowing that he will guide me 🙂
 
CarmeliteGirl25 said:
I found my home! I went to the retreat this weekend with the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus in Milwaukee, WI and loved every minute of it. I hated having to return home and when I woke up this morning, I was sad that I wasn’t there. Sr. Immaculata, the Superior of the house, offered me an application yesterday on the way to the airport, so I emailed her this morning to ask her to please mail it to me!

I firmly believe in the power of prayer. I asked St. Therese for a rose if I was called there. I had forgotten about that prayer until I saw my pictures last night. (see attached picture below)

Plus, I had goosebumps when the Sisters put on their mantles for Sunday Mass. I almost cried in Adoration several times. I wanted a picture in front of the Blessed Sacrament, and I didn’t know whether to take it because two Sisters were there as well. Sr. M. Zachary got up and asked if I wanted a picture! Can you think of a better answer! 😃

Each and every one of those Sisters are my family now. I love them very much. Please pray for them! And please pray for me that this application process brings me much peace if it is God’s will. God bless you!
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Congratulations! My prayers will be with you as you continue your vocational journey.
Blessings of Peace and All Good!
 
That’s wonderful news, CarmeliteGirl! God bless and good luck in the rest of your aspirancy: please let us know when you enter!
 
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