My Teenage Years in a Convent: The Convent of the English Sisters from The Story of My Life

After resisting the religious tug for years, I decided to give in to the calling my senior year in college. I entered the Visitation because the sisters I had in high school were the ones I knew and loved best. They had a lovely, gentle and unpressured spirit that drew me once I finally made up my mind to try the religious life.

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I try to reach out in the community by teaching Spanish and theology to 4th grade and high school students. Changing the World From Within. During my free time, I thoroughly enjoy reading Don Quixote and other novels, listening to public radio and watching movies. I have a heart for peace and equality. I am certain that God is with and in the world, inside of every person.

I feel strongly that God wants us to be happy and to love one another that he wants us to live in union with him. I take daily inspiration from my neighbors who are so brave, so humble and so faith-filled. I am a native of St. Paul and one of six children. When I was a sophomore at St. I taught in grades Montessori through 12 at Visitation in Mendota Heights, did extensive work in liturgy one of the loves of my life , founded the campus ministry program, and chaired the religion department.

I am grateful for the small role I played in the formation of young people. Through the years, unknown to me at the time, I was being prepared for the Visitation Monastery of Minneapolis. This was powerfully revealed to me one day as I drank from the cup at Eucharist. I am a founding member of this monastery and have been here since the beginning Sharing life and love in this urban community suits me very well, and I have found several niches in which to use my gifts to share and to receive love from the people who are our neighbors.

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May Jesus live in those we accompany and who accompany us. Can you guess my birthplace? Yes, my family is from St. Louis, Missouri, and Sister Karen Mohan is my name. River imagery still gets my attention, and kayaking, swimming and riding my bike along the Mississippi River Parkway near us are leisure activities I really enjoy!

I also appreciate the stillness of water with its invitation to open my heart to the depths of love that God offers. My education at the Visitation Academy in St. My undergraduate degree in English and my graduate degree in Spirituality have enabled me to serve the Lord as an educator and spiritual guide.

I treasure the moments to meet Jesus in personal and communal prayer and in the wonderful people who come to pray or just be with us. We recently celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. As I reflected on the Heart of Christ, I realized that when I gifted Jesus with my heart all those years ago, Jesus had gifted me with his heart in return!

What is different about what I professed on May 12, ? As a child, I professed my faith. As an adult, I professed my commitment to live my life in a particular way. Jesus has given each of us his heart. How each of us receives and shares that gift looks different. We are all called to let the Spirit lead… encourage…transform us in difficult yet life-giving ways.

I thank you for the gift of your prayers and your presence at my profession and as I begin a new chapter in my life as a vowed Religious with the Sisters of the Visitation in Minneapolis. Visitation Monastery of Minneapolis. Mary Frances Reis Sr. Sister Katherine Fun Fact: Sister Mary Margaret Fun Fact: Wields a quick wit. Sister Suzanne Fun Fact: Sister Mary Virginia Fun Fact: Sister Mary Frances Fun Fact: Is a skilled party planner. Sister Karen Fun Fact: She claims to be shy, although when we speak, she cannot stop talking effusively about life in a convent. She works as a teaching assistant at Sacred Heart boarding school in Swaffham, Norfolk, founded by the Daughters of Divine Charity, an apostolic order that performs social work in the wider community.

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But she has had a mixed experience of religion and faith, experiencing "dark times" as a teenager. An only child, she was raised a Catholic but was never passionate about it until high school: When everything falls apart you realise what's important to you, I know God helped me through the difficult times. She didn't discuss entering religious life with her dad, she says, but "he must have had an idea.

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I was always asking him to take me to convents or talking about sisters. She has been to Lourdes five times, four of them as a helper. She was scared of telling her dad about her decision to join the convent — and she felt guilty that there would be no grandchildren. She was so worried about speaking to him that she wrote a letter. He rang me up, in tears. He wasn't shocked at all. To think anything other than that is hard to get used to. You do wonder what your children will look like, you do long for someone to love and for someone to love you.

But another person could never fulfil what I long for. I owe him everything. The youngest sister in the convent, apart from her, is 33, the next is In all the other convents she visited, they were mostly in their 50s. The convent hadn't had an English-born candidate for 40 years. It was quite a rocky start. There was learning from both parties about what young people need today.



Now I'm here as a young person I want to attract other young people. Young people bring life and energy. Order by newest oldest recommendations. Show 25 25 50 All.