need and lots of things i want, i hope
i have a healthy detachment toward
those things and that neither my
happiness nor my self-worth is dependent on what i do or do not have.
That in itself is a huge freedom!
Vowing poverty, however, is not
without its struggles. For me the
hardest part monetarily is not having
the means to give to people the way
“
Poverty to me
means developing
a healthy practice
of using the
word enough.
Fr. Italo Dell’Oro, CRS 610 W. Melwood St. . Houston, TX 77009 somascans@yahoo.com . www.somascans.org
i’d like to. i know that’s my problem
and that people do not expect huge
gifts from me, but i suppose that’s
an area where i still need to develop
acceptance.
desires to have things and to go
places don’t vanish with religious
profession either, and while that
could be considered a struggle of
poverty, i think most everyone has
trouble in those areas from time to
time.
Enter #120 at VocationMatch.com
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
One Congregation Two Lifestyles
Celibacy: Set free to love
APOSTOLIC
A lifestyle that is committed to
listening to the weary, often
muted voices of the poor and the
disadvantaged–especially women and
children, and then doing something
about what is heard.
CONTEMPLATIVE
A lifestyle that seeks to bring Jesus'
love to all God’s people through
contemplative prayer, community life,
silence, solitude, faithfulness to the
Gospel, and meditation on the
Word of God.
Celibacy is probably the vow that
causes the most consternation and
hesitancy to those considering
vowed life. How can one possibly
live without marriage, sex, and
children and be happy and fulfilled?
Again, if my understanding of the
vow is one-dimensional, i will never
be able to live it. in choosing celibacy,
we choose not to marry, which is very
“One Person Is Of More Value Than A World”
CONTACT: USA Christine Alvarez (732) 946-0515 gsvocny@optonline.net
www.goodshepherdsisters.org
CANADA Sr. Barbara Wells (204) 336-5282 barbarargs@yahoo.ca
www.goodshepherdsisterscanada.org
Enter #077 at VocationMatch.com
47 VISION 2013
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