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Anybody here wanted to be a man so she could become a priest or monk.
I find men more inspiring,even though there were great nuns,but…sometimes this crosesess my mind.
 
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I’ve never wanted to be a man. I wanted to be a Jesuit priest, but in the same way I wanted to be an engineer or a journalist or a lawyer or an astronaut. I don’t tend to see any profession or vocation as gendered (except for childbearing).

Church said nope, so I am faced with the challenge of how to live out my faith in a different way.
Never felt any call to join a female religious order.
It may be that I’ll eventually join one of the third orders, or some other group like Opus Dei.
 
Yes i agree with you.
I am also against women being priests as some suggest these days.
I have wanted to join order,but still find men more inspiring.
Maybe some people are correct to say women is better to be a mom.(sounds Protestant maybe)
 
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One time I was worried and anxious about getting into a certain graduate school, and a priest in confession told me, “If God wants you in that school, He will put you there”.

I think that’s right, and God puts us where he wants us to be. There were saints who wanted to join orders or be missionaries or be soldiers and they couldn’t do it for some reason, whether it was gender or physical health or lack of money or something else, and they found a different path for themselves. So we should do that too.

If I’d been a priest I wouldn’t have been able to take care of my mom when she got sick, and I wouldn’t have been able to marry my husband. Maybe these are things God wanted me to do instead of being a priest.
 
No, never particularly wanted to be a woman, either. I am what I am - a woman. I deal with it.
 
No, never. Maybe because I didn´t had those clear gender rules in my head when it comes to professions. My mother for example told me one day as a child she dreamed of being a boy because of the freedom to become whatever she wanted, and as my generation is more liberated, there was no need of such dreams for me.
I always thought If I had been driven to a religious vocation (I am not) I would have a state of mind where I would just accept where God would put me - and be a happy nun instead of being sad for not becoming a priest.
When I was younger, I prepared for a military career. This was no problem for me but annoying because of some people around me, who thought I was a lesbian or some strange kind of sexy, but sick daredevil (it´s not that common in germany). Then came the university time, and I got to know many awesome feminine scholars. No lack of role models 🙂
 
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Yeah, there is this bizarre idea that if you think you’d like to do a job that men hold, or play a sports game that men play, or wear a trouser suit that men wear, then you must want to be a man on some level.
When usually you just want the job, or to play the game, or think the suit looks really cool and would look good on you.
 
They’re not at the top of my shortlist. I like that St. Josemaria Escriva was close to his guardian angel and I bought his rosary meditations book. But the jumping out of bed at some ridiculous hour at the first ring of the alarm clock saying “Serviam” would not work for me. That’s too much like being in the military, and if I’d wanted to be in the military, I’d have joined up.

Right now I am required to say the Angelus at the appropriate times for my prayer novena (the hope being that we will continue to say it after the long novena ends, because we will have built a habit), so frequently my phone alarm goes off at 6 am, I wake up enough to say the Angelus and Morning Offering, possibly use the bathroom, and go back to sleep.

Sleep is extremely important for my mental health, I’ve found.

I am more likely to find a third order that concentrates heavily on praying, either Marian devotions or for the poor souls.
 
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I have wanted to be a bird so I could fly, I have wanted to be in an non-disabled body so I could one time jump and run and wear pretty clothes. But, then, I read “why should the pot say to the potter ‘why have you made me this way?’” and I put it all in God’s hands.
 
God bless you. I pray that God will give me just half the amount of faith you have, it would probably be enough to move mountains!
 
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