» diocesan widow http://doihaveavocation.com/blog Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:56:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 © question@doihaveavocation.com () question@doihaveavocation.com() 1440 question@doihaveavocation.com No no http://doihaveavocation.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg http://doihaveavocation.com/blog 144 144 The Thursday Q & A http://doihaveavocation.com/blog/archives/219 http://doihaveavocation.com/blog/archives/219#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:20:56 +0000 http://doihaveavocation.com/blog/?p=219 Q.  I am a widow.  What are my vocational options?
A.  If you are a Roman Catholic widow, you are called to live the universal call to holiness.  It may be that you have been given a call within a call and that you might be called to marriage, to the religious life, to a society of apostolic life, to become a member of a secular institute, or perhaps to privately dedicate your life to Christ through a life-long private vow of chastity.  Of course, it is essential for good discernment that a widow have
gone through a sufficient grieving and adjustment period before seriously contemplating possibly taking on a new life-long commitment.

NB.  Eastern Catholic widows have the additional possibility of entering the consecrated state as a consecrated widow should they be admitted to this by their local hierarch.

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