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Vocation Stories
From a younger Sister...
Sister Tonette Sperando, OSB
Life offers us many adventures and winding roads. The key to happiness is finding the path that leads to an inner wholeness. For me, that wholeness did not occur until I finally stopped running from the journey to which God was calling me. When I finally accepted that path it was as if I had found the missing piece to a puzzle. Read more...
From an older Sister...
Sister Bertha True, OSB
A childhood spent in rural Alabama – in which Catholics were few, Eucharistic celebrations infrequent, and prejudice against Catholics high – gave me a unique perspective on the Church, one that eventually influenced my vocation and my choice of religious communities. Read more...
From a Sister in Initial Formation...
Sister Lynn Elisabeth Meadows, OSB
My religious vocation seems both absolutely intuitive and completely unlikely. I was raised in the Protestant tradition and was not familiar with Catholic religious life other than as portrayed in the media. I did not have Sisters as role models or teachers since the Protestant tradition had, for the most part, not retained the practice of consecrated religious life. This background makes my vocation an unlikely one. Yet there is something completely intuitive about this life, as if it had been hard-wired somewhere in my soul from the earliest of ages. Read more...