Word: vocationalizing
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Such girls are just the kind whose friends say: "Oh, but not you! You're not the type for a nun." Why, then, do they choose the life? The answer, in the Catholic view, lies in the mysterious stirring called "vocation." A vocation is not to be measured in...
Granted a valid vocation and a healthy body and mind, what does the postulant find in a cloistered convent? The group she has joined gives a family's sense of solidarity and protection. Silence does not exclude communication, and a world that talks from morning to night may not...
Dark Night of the Soul. The life of contemplation has its occupational diseases. Sisters sometimes suffer shattering doubts about the genuineness of their vocation, or an onslaught of "scrupulosity"-obsession with insignificant imperfections that begin to loom like mortal sins. Most agonizing of all is spiritual dryness, analyzed by St...
The new academic schedule--and announced by Yale two weeks age--moves mid-year examination from the middle at January to the first week after Christings vacation. It also expands the spring vocation from the customary ten days to there weeks, and it drops the opening of college back a...
Policy-wine, Yale's unique calendar presents the Ivy League with a number of scheduling conflicts. Athletic directors have enough trouble fitting seven winter sports teams into an orthodox schedule without Riving special consideration to one college. New these conflicts are compounded an the Ivy directors try to draw up...