Isn’t it crazy?

Editorial Staff

At the beginning of last summer, Laura, our only daughter, took us aback with an announcement: she would like to become a nun. We are lay people, formed by a scientific culture. Laura had also applied to medical school, then she met a religious movement and began to attend their prayer meetings. And she has now decided to enter the convent to discern her vocation. This sounds crazy to us, a return to the Middle Ages in the third millennium.

M.T. and A.R.

My dear friends, I understand your dismay and disappointment. First of all, vocational discernment is a long lasting process, it doesn’t happen automatically. From this point of view, perhaps the Middle Ages, to which you refer, are not so terribly dark! Try to accompany your daughter’s freedom by helping her to discern carefully whether the consecrated life is for her a form of life that allows her to reach her true happiness. If so, why not?