Vocations and Marriage

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Hi there!

I have a question about vocations, specifically in regards to priesthood and “getting thee to a nunnery” grin

Can someone who, at one point in time, was married enter into either the priesthood or a convent?

For example, Mary has been married to George for years. When George passes on, Mary wishes to become a Carmelite nun…or vice versa…

Forgive my ignorance of proper terminology - I’m just starting out on the Catholic path…🙂

~Jessica
 
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JessicaCeleste:
Hi there!

I have a question about vocations, specifically in regards to priesthood and “getting thee to a nunnery” grin

Can someone who, at one point in time, was married enter into either the priesthood or a convent?

For example, Mary has been married to George for years. When George passes on, Mary wishes to become a Carmelite nun…or vice versa…

Forgive my ignorance of proper terminology - I’m just starting out on the Catholic path…🙂

~Jessica
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In the examples you use being married would not be the reason a person would be excluded from the above vocations. There may be other reasons but in these examples marriage is not one of them.

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Can someone who, at one point in time, was married enter into either the priesthood or a convent?
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Yes, provided they have a properly discerned vocation and there are no other obstacles (such as divorce without annulment, etc.).

I know of a local man who was ordained as a priest several years after his wife died. The following year, the man concelebrated at his son’s ordination Mass. 🙂
 
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