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Hey everyone!

A friend of mine really wants to join a convent, but she needs to pay off her student loans before she can enter. The convent cannot give her assistance because it is very new and still paying off its own debts, and we tried our local Serra Club but they couldn’t give financial assistance either. Does anyone have any idea where we could find benefactors to help her pay off her debts and pursue her call? Thanks!
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Jessica:
Hey everyone!

A friend of mine really wants to join a convent, but she needs to pay off her student loans before she can enter. The convent cannot give her assistance because it is very new and still paying off its own debts, and we tried our local Serra Club but they couldn’t give financial assistance either. Does anyone have any idea where we could find benefactors to help her pay off her debts and pursue her call? Thanks!
Jessica
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I don’t have the link, but if you search online you will find that there is an organization that will help people like your friend. They require payback, of course, if the woman leaves the convent.
 
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I don’t have the link, but if you search online you will find that there is an organization that will help people like your friend. They require payback, of course, if the woman leaves the convent.
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Oops. It was Serra Club. Since this is what they DO, why was she turned down?
 
Jessica,

I hope it works out!

I knew a guy who stayed rent-free with his parents and worked, worked, worked (I think a full and a part-time job) for a half a year and didn’t spend one dime of it. He was able to pay off his student loans, and offer up the work as a sacrfice.

In a way, I suppose it was great preparation for entering the order he joined. He’s now a priest.

God Bless,
VC
 
One of my college classmates who is now a Little Sister of the Poor went through this, and it was a rough thing to watch us college seminarians get our degrees in philosophy for free while she took the exact same classes for the exact same degree, but with tens of thousands in debt. I am glad to hear that Serra has some kind of response to this. My only advice would be to make sure she avoids additional debt; I had a different friend who actually fell into credit cards while she was contemplating religious life, and it delayed her some time.
 
try the poor clare’s. It is the 2nd order of St. Francis founded by St. Clare of Assisi.
 
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