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TeresaBenedicta said:
I will be staying with the Carmelites of Cristo Rey in San Francisco on June 20-22 and then while in California, I will be going south to stay with the Menlo Park cloistered Dominican nuns from June 22 to 27th. Then I will visit the Carmelites of Springfield, Missouri in early July. 🙂

I am 48 yrs old with 2 grown kids (married/divorced/annulment) and these Carmels are open to me - for anyone in a similar situation to mine who feels called to great, traditional and full habited Carmels.

The Carmel of Springfield is a wonderful Carmel and on 5/27 lost their former prioress who was sick for awhile. They are now down to only 3 but they are still fairly young - the current prioress, Mother Marya is about 46 and the other two are around that age or a bit older so they are not a doddering old community! They are not closing but please call or write them if you have a Carmelite vocation. They don’t have a website but when I visit I hope to change Mother Marya’s mind as that my help me alot.

The Carmel of Cristo Rey has 35 as an upper age limit in their IRL profile, but they do and have excepted older when the woman has good health and a vocation to Carmel and their monastery. This is a bilingual community (the recreation and Divine Office is in English for 2 wks, then both are in Spanish for 2 wks). They came from Mexico over 75 yrs ago. They were founded from a Carmel in Mexico that was founded by a Carmel in Spain that St. Teresa of Avila founded herself! Wonderful history. 👍

As I am making sure I AM a Carmelite vocation :confused: , I would still like to visit the Visitation monasteries of Toledo and Tyringham (if these monasteries are to be my “home”!) and may go to England to visit and stay with the Colwich Benedictines and visit the St. Helen’s Carmel and the Wolverhhampton Carmel possibly. 🙂
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You have determined for sure that your call is contemplative. So have I. But I don’t feel 100% cloistered. And, since there is an incredible need in my rural area just west of Springfield, Missouri, I am hoping and praying that a diocesan order can begin here that is contemplative but offers 2-1/2 hours a day (Monday through Friday) to assist in rural needs.

Kathie
 
TeresaBenedicta,

–by any chance do you post on Phatmass Vocation Station with another moniker?

Your story and interests in religious life sound familiar…
 
TeresaBenedicta said:
Well, I AM 48 and I am NOT getting any younger so I have to move and get going quickly! lol! 😃

It is definitely getting harder to get up every day and having to face a in the world and NOT the monastery. I am harrassing Our Lord, Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. Teresa Benedicta, St. Teresa of Avila and St. Therese so badly to get me into the monastery, they JUST have to soon just to shut me up! :byzsoc:
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Oh, don’t forget to ask St. Anthony of Padua as he is very good at helping our lost selves toooo 👍 😛 :juggle: :gopray2:
kathie
 
No I do not have another aka on Phatmass.

And I do understan how hard it is to get up to Not the monastery,
the peace and quiet, and the prayers, singing and chanting, which is so hard to do on the outside, espescially as I have a rotationg schedule and cannot make a special time. But I do the best I can.

Does anyone know how to use the “Short Christian Prayer” I have had this book since my conversion and still do not know how to use it. Could any one shed some light on this.

:gopray2:

:getholy:
 
Marilynclssc said:
No I do not have another aka on Phatmass.

And I do understan how hard it is to get up to Not the monastery,
the peace and quiet, and the prayers, singing and chanting, which is so hard to do on the outside, espescially as I have a rotationg schedule and cannot make a special time. But I do the best I can.

Does anyone know how to use the “Short Christian Prayer” I have had this book since my conversion and still do not know how to use it. Could any one shed some light on this.

:gopray2:

:getholy:
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I know how to use the book, but it’s really hard to explain by typing. I had one of the priests at my parish show me how to use mine. Then I moved onto the Complete Liturgy of the Hours. I’ll try to come up with a useful run down that might help.
 
Hello everyone! I’m 16 and I am going to join the Sisters of Life in NYC.
 
Marilynclssc said:
No I do not have another aka on Phatmass.

And I do understan how hard it is to get up to Not the monastery,
the peace and quiet, and the prayers, singing and chanting, which is so hard to do on the outside, espescially as I have a rotationg schedule and cannot make a special time. But I do the best I can.

Does anyone know how to use the “Short Christian Prayer” I have had this book since my conversion and still do not know how to use it. Could any one shed some light on this.

:gopray2:

:getholy:
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Sorry, TB. You post as TB on Phatmass.

Remember, 'Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be opened unto you."–one of my favorite quotes.

THERE IS A WAY. Keep on plugging. It CAN be overcome! If this–the monastery–is what you want, you’ll get there!!
 
Marilynclssc said:
Does anyone know how to use the “Short Christian Prayer” I have had this book since my conversion and still do not know how to use it. Could any one shed some light on this.

:gopray2:

:getholy:
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I sent you a private message. Hopefully it will help explain it for you. If not, I belive there are some websites that help, but they didn’t help me much!
 
kathielee said:
You have determined for sure that your call is contemplative. So have I. But I don’t feel 100% cloistered. And, since there is an incredible need in my rural area just west of Springfield, Missouri, I am hoping and praying that a diocesan order can begin here that is contemplative but offers 2-1/2 hours a day (Monday through Friday) to assist in rural needs.

Kathie
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The Servants of the Blessed Sacrament are contemplative but not cloistered.

blesacrament.org/index.htm
 
lvngembrs said:
The Nashvilles are widely known because they “spawned” the SMMEs in Michigan.

I don’t think I would want to remain in California since the sisters don’t wear the traditional habit and many are changing the chapels in the convent house to something modern, or they practice new age things like centering prayer, it turns me off a bit. I want a community that is in full union with Rome, and California’s just too liberal for me! 🤷

Oh, shout out to Amata Child!! :extrahappy: I’ll write to you soon.
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Hi! I met the Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart. They are located in California and still I would describe them as very traditional and devote. Just for you to know 😉
 
I’m getting excited for my visit this weekend. I hope to procure a vocation director while I’m there. Some of the doubts are starting to creep back in…I need someone to talk to about all of this. Not that you all aren’t great, but you know what I mean!
 
nicolep said:
I’m getting excited for my visit this weekend. I hope to procure a vocation director while I’m there. Some of the doubts are starting to creep back in…I need someone to talk to about all of this. Not that you all aren’t great, but you know what I mean!
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Yes, I do know what you mean. I just came back from OCD place where I talked a lot of things to one nun who has known me.
But I think I’m still long way to go…🙂
 
wina said:
Yes, I do know what you mean. I just came back from OCD place where I talked a lot of things to one nun who has known me.
But I think I’m still long way to go…🙂
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I talked to one of the sisters at an order for about an hour last night. It was a useful converation in that I learned a lot about her monastery, but it didn’t do anything to calm some of the concerns. It’s unreasonable, I think, but I got this whole “you have to be perfect, you have to have always been perfect” feeling.
 
I was actively discerning for a few years, and I was really drawn to the Franciscan life, and then some bad stuff happend, and I stopped going to Church and everything…almost a year later, I have started going back to Church, and I still feel that call!!! Pray for me please ladies? I’m not going to start discerning again until I get my prayer life back in order, but I still feel that pull to religious life. I feel like God still wants me…even though I am weak, and broken. I’m keeping all of you in my prayers.
 
nicolep said:
I talked to one of the sisters at an order for about an hour last night. It was a useful converation in that I learned a lot about her monastery, but it didn’t do anything to calm some of the concerns. It’s unreasonable, I think, but I got this whole “you have to be perfect, you have to have always been perfect” feeling.
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Yes, it’s always useful talking to someone who knows better. But remember that you should be calm because of that then you may listen God’s voice. I had a thought the same as you before that how could God call me because my life isn’t perfect. Then I read the life of St.Francis of Asisi and I’ve fallen in love with the way of his life. I’ve been thinking to learn more about franciscan order.
Anyway…always pray and silence then you will listen God’s voice.
God bless
 
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