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Date Posted: 10:45:30 07/24/07 Tue
Author: Neysa
Author Host/IP: user-38lci2p.dialup.mindspring.com / 209.86.72.89
Subject: Nun.......
In reply to: Barb 's message, "For those of you who are of the Catholic faith............." on 09:35:06 07/24/07 Tue

Back in 1992-93, I was very seriously contemplating on becoming a nun. I was in graduate school at the time. I remember talking to the girl, her name is Mary, who lived next door to me in my apartment. She was Catholic. I remember telling her that I didn't know or understand what was happening to me. The last thing on earth I wanted to be was a nun. I survived them for years in Catholic school. I really mean it when I say "survived", some of them were really mean. I got hit by a few in the younger grades 1st to 3rd. In high school, once a nun grabbed my hair and the hair of another student who was standing next to me at the blackboard and slammed our heads together for doing the algebra problem wrong. Another time I got slammed into the blackboard, and the nun took her finger and kept jabbing me in the chest. I always wanted to be a priest, never did I think about being a nun.

I went and spoke to the Catholic chaplain on campus. Then, I contacted a nun at my high school. ( I did attend a Catholic undergraduate college....it never felt Catholic...nuns...Sisters of Mercy dressed in regular clothes, I forgot they were nuns. I had two as prof, we didn't call them sister. Prof. or Dr.

I went and spent a weekend at a convent. ( Told me parents I was visiting a friend). When I told my parents I wanted to be a nun. To my surprise I was shocked at how they reacted. I thought they would be overjoyed. They were not pleased. My mom said we didn't send you to Catholic school for all those years to become a nun. This is a statement from a woman who was such a devout Catholic, that my dad would sometimes call her " Saint". All my dad kept saying was you can't be a nun. I want a grandson named after me!

It is hard to descibe "the Call" It was so beautiful. The thought of being a nun was with me 24/7. It was such a joyous feeling. Also a very peaceful feeling, a peace that I had never known.

I went with a group to World Youth Day in 1993, to Denver,CO. I asked God, what am I to do ?

I returned home, I wouldn't be finished with my studies until Dec of 94. I stayed in school and finished my degree. By February of 95, the thought of being a nun was not as strong but it was still there. It wasn't until around April/May, that it was revealed what I should do.It was not to become a nun. This time the feeling was even stronger more intense. I was terrified because what was being asked of me I really didn't think I could do.

Now, when I think back, it wasn't in the plans for me to be a nun. Maybe, I'm just a little glad. I cannot see me as a nun.

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Yes! -- Joan, 13:32:57 07/24/07 Tue [1] (ip68-0-253-131.ri.ri.cox.net/68.0.253.131)

When I was very young, I thought the Flying Nun had a great life. I figured that if I stayed small enough and joined the right order (so I could have the right flying habit), I could also fly around and help people.

Donald Hollanger, That Girl's boyfriend, also had a piece of my heart. And I couldn't imagine a future without children--I imagined 6.

So, I was going to become a flying nun, marry Donald and have 6 children.

My mother broke the news to me that nuns don't get married and have children, and they don't really fly.

Years later I learned that Donald was gay. My dreams were completely ruined! lol

Joan

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[> [> Joan -- Catie, 14:02:00 07/24/07 Tue [1] (h166.243.213.151.ip.alltel.net/151.213.243.166)

That is SO funny!! You crack me up. Hey, I really loved the flying nun too.

I didn't know Ted Bessel was gay. He was married and had several kids. I had not heard he was gay. His poor wife. Geez. He died not that long ago it seems.

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[> [> And Sally Field didn't really like playing "The Flying Nun" either, Joan! lol -- Barb, 16:31:58 07/24/07 Tue [1] (clgrtnt3-port-25.dial.telus.net/161.184.44.25)

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