Vocation Letters: First Profession
Our fictional novice, Sister Mary Rosaria, has been waiting long enough for her two years of novitiate to end with her profession of temporary vows! Read more here.
Following is a series of letters concerning the discernment and formation of a fictional young woman, Melanie, as she discerns her vocation to be a cloistered Dominican nun. How fictional is fictional? Events may not have a one-on-one correspondance with events at the monastery, as we wish to keep our day-to-day life veiled behind the enclosure, but these letters do accurately depict Dominican monastic life as it is typically lived here at Marbury. For example, does Sister report that the nuns planted corn? This doesn’t mean that we planted corn that day; but it does mean that we do garden, and sometimes do grow corn, although perhaps this year we decided to plant zucchini and did so last month! We hope this series is helpful in giving you insight into our vocation as Dominican nuns.
Our fictional novice, Sister Mary Rosaria, has been waiting long enough for her two years of novitiate to end with her profession of temporary vows! Read more here.
This Vocation Letter continues the story of our fictional novice, Sister Mary Rosaria, as the second year of her novitiate draws to […]
Our fictional novice Sr. Mary Rosaria continues our Vocation Letter series with this note to her little sister. Ave + Maria “The […]
Our fictional novice Sister Mary Rosaria writes to her little sister Tessa, squeezing in a letter before Lent begins in order to […]
This post continues our series of Vocation Letters from our fictional novice, Sister Mary Rosaria. Though there have been some temporal gaps, […]
After a hiatus of two years, we continue following the story of our fictional novice, Sister Mary Rosaria, taking up her life […]
At last, our fictional postulant Sister Melanie has become our fictional novice Sister Mary Rosaria of Divine Mercy. In this Vocation Letter […]
Happy feast of the Nativity of Our Lady! This is the last Vocation Letter from Sr. Melanie as a postulant. We had […]
Are you wondering how our fictional postulant, Sister Melanie, is doing? She won’t be a postulant much longer! Below is the latest […]
This entry continues our series of “Vocation Letters” concerning our fictional postulant, Sister Melanie. Here she tells her family how nuns live […]