If you weren't born catholic, how do you know you were born to be a nun?
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Pray a lot. Try to discern where God is leading you.\n\nIf you want to explore that journey, you will have to start by joining the Catholic Church. \n\nCall your local parish and ask to talk to the Director of RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation). There is never any obligation to continue.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Catholics think Mary was born without sin, which is different than most other Christians.  That's the only real difference.  \n\nAlso mary is hugely popular in many countries especially spanish-speaking countries.
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I had no religious upbringing at all.  Years and years of just living like a moral person - for no other reason than that I knew it was right.  toward the end of high school, I started researching different religions and attending services.  None ever fit.\n\nWhen I turned 24, i was introduced to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and I knew in my heart that it was the truth I had been seeking.  I was Baptised in March of 2002, I was married in the Nauvoo Temple to my amazing wife in 2004.
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I was raised a Catholic but was never taught anything about faith and that you need it to be saved. I was mostly religious stuff like confessing your sins to a priest when all along I could have just talked to God myself. Why go to the priest anyway???  And the whole rosary thing I never understood. I was taught all the religious aspects  but never the way to know for sure that you have eternal life. Which is FAITH in Jesus and trusting that He is the ONLY way to get to heaven. For it is by grace we have been saved through FAITH and this is not from us but it is a GIFT from God, not by works so that no one can boast. I am so glad that I KNOW that I have eternal life!!!! -I am not saying anything bad about Catholics but just my experience. I actually know many catholics who believe it is by faith and that the other religious stuff means nothing. Besides "religion" is man made, it doesn't matter what one you are as long as you have faith in jesus for salvation.
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If you are interested in joining or just learning more about the Catholic Church, contact your local parish and ask about information about their RCIA Inquiry group. \n\nYou can go and ask any questions you want. \n\nThis is the first step in RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) but you can stop at any time.\n\nThere is no obligation to become a Catholic.\n\nWith love and prayers in Christ.
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Yes mary was born with out sins, never sined (or had sex) and was assumed into heaven body and soul.  Joseph was on the other hand born with original sin but died a saint and went to heaven.
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I find it intriguing that when this question is raised, so many still believe that the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception refers to the birth of Jesus.  Every single reference work I have ever read, including all dictionaries, all encyclopedias and the Catholic Encyclopedia defines the Immaculate Conception as the doctrine which teaches that Mary herself was immaculately conceived in her mother's womb so that Mary herself was born free of the original stain of sin. Every single reference work I have ever seen defines it this way - as referring to the conception of Mary - not the conception of Jesus.  I do not understand why many still feel it refers to the birth of Jesus.  While it is true that Jesus was born without sin, this particular doctrine has nothing to do with him.
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The Catholic church calls her the Virgin Mary. The Protestant church just calls her Mary. Despite the fact that the Bible records that Jesus had brothers. The Catholic church edits this out of their Bible and calls Mary a perpetual virgin.\n\nMary only had one virgin conception and birth, and that was Jesus. After that, she conceived via Joseph.\n\nSee my explanation below for the reason for the virgin birth.
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Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.
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I've never walked out on a service but I did "leave" the Catholic church at age 17.  I realized that gods don't exist.  I couldn't remain a Catholic when I knew it was based on delusion.
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In the early history of the Catholic church this is true ... because women were/are viewed as being the source of original sin and therefore unclean.  Additionally if a woman wanted to become a nun her family had to pay a dowery to the church in order to become one and then pay for her keep in the nunnery.
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I don't think it's super common, but it DOES happen. I work with a woman who was a full-fledged nun for a while. She eventually left -- said she was always getting in trouble for not being meek enough. I think some people WANT to be a nun or a priest but wind up not being able to make it work.
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Hi, Roman Catholic here.\n1. the baptism thing was up to the priest. Some are more harsher then others.\n2. I have no idea about the annullment process, but I do know that since Vatican 2, it's gotten easier. Sorry your grandma probably tried to get annulled in Vatican 1, which was very strict and even more male-orienated then it is now.\n3. You wanted to be a female alter girl? Join the club. I wanted to be a priest, even held masses for my dolls. I learned that the chruch has been doing things a certain way for many years and won't change over night.\n4. Yes, you had some bad experiences with the church, but that is no reason to just stop going. I'm 26 too. I fell away from the church for five years and decided to go back.\n5. As long as it's for medical reasons and not because you want to have willy-nilly sex, the birth control pills are ok. YOu have a legitament reason for them.\n\nHowever, to be absolved of any sin, you must go to confession and tell the priest everything. After that, you may take the eucharist in mass. As a returning CAtholic, nothing felt better then to confess after five years of living in sin. It's scary, yes, but you do feel better when you leave.\n\nTake care.
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Your cousin is part of your family, and knows and loves you for what you are, including the fact that you are not a dedicated Catholic. Despite that, she chose you to be his godmother. Relax, you'll do a great job!
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I lied to a priest in confessional and made it a big enough lie for him to catch me. I was 7 at the time. By the time I was done the priest kicked me out of the church for 6 months.\n\nThe lie?\n\nThat I was having sex with the youngest nun in the church. Somehow the priest didn't believe a 7 year old was having sex with a 20 year old nun.
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No, one of the whole premises of being a nun is to be celibate (not having any sexual relationships).  That, therefore, means a nun could not have children with a stranger or with any other person.
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I was baptized Catholic as a baby, and raised that way throughout my early childhood. Eventually my parents stopped attending church, and so did I. I never really felt connected to what the Church preached, but I didn't question it because I had never been exposed to anything else. Eventually, I went on a self-exploration. I took it upon myself to find, research, and learn about other religions, views, beliefs, practices, philosophies, theories, etc.\n\nDuring my soul-search, I made a collaboration of different things I found to be logical, reasonable, logical, and sensible in my own personal opinion. I basically created my own religion. I followed that path for a while, and relished not conforming to an organized religion, because my beliefs were free to grow and change as I grew and changed (and learned). Then one day a friend introduced me to Wicca.\n\nWicca is a Neopagan religion, first reformed by Gerald Gardener in 1940 based on what is believed to be the beliefs of the ancient Celts. The more I learned about it, the more in coincided with the beliefs I'd already pieced together on my own. Its lack of dogma allows any follower to define his or her own beliefs within little restriction. This allowed my beliefs to continue to grow and change with me. It also does not require any follower to conform to any other follower's specific ideas, as you can either practice in a coven with others who hold the same views, or practice solitarily (like I do).\n\nI would recommend it to anyone looking for something to believe in. You can find out about it here:\n\nBut remember one thing! Because the specifics of the religion are free to be defined by the individual practitioner, no two Wiccans (or Pagans for that matter) will ever agree on everything. I am an open book to any questions you might have if you'd like to contact me through my profile page, or you can find nonbiased information about Wicca here: http://www.religioustolerance.org/witchcra.htm