Becoming a Sister just because I'm single?! | Sister Intern Sunday

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Komentáře • 9

  • @dana-marieparris8602
    @dana-marieparris8602 Před 7 lety +9

    Praise God! Just like St Theresa of Andes said, "I'm not going to become a nun because I haven't found someone, but because I have found someone" :)

  • @thesecondcomingisnear3538

    Are you kidding, Your beautiful. Love your smile

  • @CatholicAmanda
    @CatholicAmanda Před 7 lety +2

    Have you read "... And You Are Christ's" by Fr Thomas Dubay? It is amazing and one of the required readings before I entered the convent. I still love this book as it explains virginity and celibacy beautifully. I have read it multiple times in my discernment of consecrated virginity.

    • @ToniaBorsellino
      @ToniaBorsellino  Před 7 lety +1

      I haven't yet but it is on my list of books to read!

    • @Paul-ud7pt
      @Paul-ud7pt Před 6 lety

      I read that book! Inspiring!

  • @Paul-ud7pt
    @Paul-ud7pt Před 6 lety

    When I was a teenager I was taught that the only proper setting for sex was in marriage. I made a covenant to God that I would wait. So, naturally, I greatly desired to be married. I never minded being single and living it to the fullest. But meeting the love of my life, who I thought was "the One", and it not happening the way I thought that it would, was really tough to deal with. I prayed, I put it before the Lord, I guarded my heart, but was bitterly disappointed. It took a decade for my heart to heal and work it out with God. I never have been married. Single by circumstance? Maybe? Or perhaps God has a different path for me that He is only beginning to let me understand. See, I always THOUGHT that I wanted to be married. But dating for me has been deeply unfulfilling. And since I have become so completely content being single, I am not so sure any more how much I truly desire to be married. But still, thinking that I simply just haven't met "the One", I went on a mission trip to Japan three years ago. While there I began having thoughts like, "If I knew FOR SURE that I would never be married, I would be interested in dedicating my life to this." After returning home I was ruminating on 1 Corinthians 7 and Matthew 19, and the thought occurred to me to consider just renouncing marriage for the sake of the Kingdom. I seem to have that gift that Paul talks about, and Jesus said that those who can accept this gift ought to. Been praying this through for a couple of years now.

  • @MichelleRodriguez-fv2cj

    Are there nuns with children?

    • @j.r.r5863
      @j.r.r5863 Před 6 lety +3

      Michelle Rodriguez Some orders will take widows so long as their children are grown and can take care of themselves :)