It's my opinion that every Catholic girl, at one point or another, wants to become a nun. Anyone agree with me? I know almost the entirety of the year I was eleven years old I wanted to be a nun.
"It's beyond my control."
Who's to say? I was privileged as a young man (make that a boy) to go to a school run by The Nun's of The Immaculate Heart of Mary. How easily some of these memories return nearly 50 years-on. The Good Sisters helped shape my view of Catholicism. I am grateful to my loving parents for their thinking in seeing my Christian education furthered. Would that I'd have put it better into practice throughout my life. But life's an evolutionary process. Praise be to God Almighty, His Son, Jesus Christ.
shareMy ex-wife went to a Catholic boarding school in her teens, idolized her teachers (nuns), and wanted to become a nun. But it was motivated, at least in part (mostly, in my opinion), by a fear of sex. I didn't realize that until well into the marriage.
It's a good thing she didn't become a nun. She certainly didn't embody the Christian values of love, forgiveness, acceptance, and charity, something shocking to observe at times. She's much happier now, controlling some poor, hapless, very nice slob (I know the guy).
I'm sure she still lives a painful existence, and I feel for her. but what she might have passed on to her pupils, as a nun, are her fear of sex and the freedom from sex that being a nun would have imparted.
Good thing that she never became a nun.
From the male's point of view my friend talked about it but never went to the priesthood, once said to me "How do you know you wouldn't have the calling?"
I wouldn't more so as I already started to doubt my own faith at that time. Now days I don't believe at all as I've seen too much.
One night when my brother-in-law was drunk (not a rare thing over the years)
Said to me how he was going to try to impress on his (at the time)two daughters
how they should become nuns. Because as he put it, it was the best thing a girl could do. They didn't whats more the older one had two kids out of wedlock and got into drugs, while the other is on her second marriage to a real jerk who
did jail time. (auto thief)
Otherwise I never knew any girls/women who had the calling. Maybe a few who should have.
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I'm sorry to disprove your theory but I was a good little Catholic girl who never once wanted to be a nun. In fact, though I went to Catholic schools from pre-kindergarten through college, I can't remember a single one of my friends and peers expressing interest in going that route. To my knowledge, none went into religious life.
I did however want to be a saint when i was growing up. I wasn't exactly sure how I'd go about achieving it but that's what I aspired to. I'm still a practicing Catholic but I've come to my senses. There's no sainthood in my future and I'm okay with that. 😇
I'm a guy, but I went to Catholic grade school in the 60's and the Franciscan Sisters (they hated being called nuns) really pushed their vocation on the girls. They told us hours of stories of how in Heaven the virgins would wear white robes and stand closer to God than anyone else except the angels.
Note: Given how many Hosts of Angels there are supposed to be I'm not sure that this is such a great advantage.
Went to Catholic school and was taught by Dominican nuns until my sophomore year when we moved to town without a Catholic school. I loved our nuns, but what I wanted to be was a martyr after listening to all of the stories of the early Christian martyrs.
When I was older I read what is said by all critics to be the prison diary of St. Perpetua,
Vibia Perpetua, a young North African married woman of status with a nursing infant and her fellow martyr, the servant Felicitas were imprisoned during the reign of Septimius Severus. They are mentioned in the Canon of the Roman Catholic Mass. After reading the Diary also known as the Acta or Deeds.I knew I could not aspire to the devotion that inspired Perpetua and her fellow martyrs to the death that they willingly embraced. Perpetua even gave her baby into the care of her father so that she could not be turned from the steadfastness of of her purpose. Felicitas discovered her pregnancy after her incarceration and not wishing to be spared the fate of her compatriots due to that pregnancy joined in prayer with them that her child should be born in time. And she gave birth to a little girl whom she gave to one of her sisters to raise.
I did for a while. I wanted to be away from home and just work to serve God.
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