Word: convention
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...thank you for your article�about modern-day nuns. As a 19-year-old who is seriously considering convent life, I can attest to the efficacy of blogs and e-mail in giving prospective sisters a more accurate view of the consecrated life. Your article presented sisterhood in a fair and accessible way, highlighting both the cultural as well as religious aspects. At a time in my life when I am starting to get the courage to tell people about my future plans, seeing this article helped me feel more comfortable with my relatively uncommon potential career path. I appreciated...
...lunch table or to find people sitting in the Chapel in their pajamas at 3 a.m.," says Johnson, who was raised Catholic. St. John's has a national reputation for turning out priests and nuns. Since 1997, it has sent 69 men and 14 women to the seminary or convent...
...start of her sophomore year, Johnson was attending mass daily and receiving weekly counseling from a spiritual director at St. John's. She also went on her first Nun Run, a weekend field trip to a local convent. At that point, her parents realized Johnson's discernment was not just a passing phase. Her father, Len, took it the hardest. "I was initially very upset by Katharine's discernment," says Len, a manager at a power plant in Joliet, Ill. "I always had visions of her being a wife and a mother, but especially a mother because of how good...
...longer. Since Vatican II and the sexual revolution, the process of deciding to become a nun has grown so complex it now has a name: discernment. For most young women, discernment lasts more than two years and involves daily prayer, spiritual counseling and convent visits. Now it also includes the Internet...
...Vision Vocation Match is an online matching service that helps young people select the best convent or seminary for them. Its creators, the producers of Vision, likened the matching service to an online dating service...