You know when you are called to be a Nun.

1. You wake up praying any part of the Divine Office...
2. You dream more than three times a week about being in the convent...
3. Your friends all share their wedding details with you, and all you can think about is that if you were to get married, you would want Exposition and Holy Hour of Adoration right after the ceremony (complete with Benediction and plenty of incense...) no rush to go to the honeymoon....
4. you have all these religious community websites bookmarked in your "favorites" on your web browser...
5. you have more friends in the convent than you have out in the world...
6. when every thought you have of being married leads you to think of you being clothed in the habit and veil
7. when all your friends are candidates, aspirants, or Sisters in religious orders.
8. when the idea won't leave you alone, and you know deep down that you have to at least try or you'll regret it the rest of your life.
9. when some of your best inside jokes are shared only by you and two of your favorite Dominican sisters...
10. when you would rather go to the Catholic store to buy saint medals than go to the mall to buy new clothes
11. when you don't write your crush's name in you notebook, but instead, write your future religious sister name....
12. when you try constantly to picture yourself with a veil...
13. when Jesus is the only one who will ever understand the horrible day you've had....
14. when you hear a love song, you think about Jesus....
15. when your idea of a dinner date is Mass.....
16. You find yourself (sometime without realizing it) spending a quiet hour at work in contemplative prayer/meditating on scripture.
17. when you just long for HIM in Holy Communion - all day long!!!!!!!
18. when you don´t want to close your LOTH.
19. when the only websites you go to besides your e-mail and phatmass are religious sisters' websites.
20. Have many books about the life of the Saints
21. Have many photos of the sisters on your notebook/computer
22. Can't stop dreaming about the convent life
23. Heartbouncing when you saw photos from sisters (I want it too!!)
24. Talk with Him a lot
25. Love Him more than other
26. Have DVDs about religious life, these are your favoriete movies ever! (Example: Into great silence, A man who becames a pope: Pope John II, Saint Thèrése, Mission, Father Damian, Brother Sun and Sister Moon, Mother Teresa of Calcutta and more...)
27. See all big houses and you will thinking: this house will maybe for the sisters and their/our work (especially the carmeldcj)
28. When the sisters ask when you will entered, especially the older sisters
29. When the sisters will ask for your help
30. When some friends says: you don't say it, but you want to enter to an convent. We can see in your eyes.
31. When one day you wake up and have a sudden urge to kiss the crucifix on your wall and say "I will take up my cross and follow you". Then you continue to act on that urge every single morning.
32. When you're upset saying a Hail Mary cheers you up more than your family or friends.
33. Mass during the petitions when they say "For an increase for vocations to the priesthood and religious life," and you feel guilty and/or cannot stop smiling.
34. When you see a religious, you turn the other direction.
35. When you see a religious, you stalk them
36. You cannot get the idea of being a religious out of your head.
37. You are constantly thinking about what your religious name might be.
38. You have visited religious orders without your parents' knowledge.
39. You are always looking at different orders on the internet.
40. People tell you you would make a good nun.
41. People tell you they will go to your final profession.
42. You've been told that you would look good in a veil.
43. You hide brochures about different communities under your bed.
44. You play dress-up nun and use a pillow case/skirt for your veil.
45. You randomly wake up early in the morning and cannot explain it.
46. You daydream about Jesus (He is so distracting sometimes! lol)
47. You get excited about fasting, etc. (well, this isn't just for those discerning religious life).
48. You schedule things around praying the Divine Office.
49. You are intensely attracted to certain colors that strangely correspond to the exact color a certain order wears...
50. You stalk the saint founders of certain orders
51. The saint-founders of certain orders stalk you.
52. You know the schedule of your favorite community by heart and correspond the time you say the Office with when they do.
53. You get excited about the thought of SPIRITUAL children.
54. You're excited about getting to give everything away--yay religious poverty!
55. You're excit
56. ed about even wearing a dorky postulant outfit!
57. When random strangers walk up and ask you "Are you going to be a Sister?" for reasons you just can't seem to figure out.
58. When you try to justify chores by attributing them to a certain "vow of obedience"
59. When you spend your free time drawing pictures/writing icons of the saints
    
60. When you find more comfort in sharing things with Jesus, Mary, and the saints instead of with friends
61. When Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is the only thing that makes you happy or gives you peace. When you just want to spend your life at the feet of Jesus in the tabernacle...
62. You start registering at Catholic forums with your preferred religious name. Just incase...
63. Whenever you pray the Rosary with a group, and close your eyes, you imagine that you're a nun.
64. ...someone asks you if you are in a relationship OR if you are dating someone???
65. and you immediately think, "Yes, with Jesus.." but you are not quite sure how to put it into words...
66. . you cry at the idea of wearing a wedding gown at your future wedding with Christ :-)
67. you keep getting called "sister" even in lay clothes
68. you are constantly asked "are you a sister?"
69. at school or at home or at work you keep thinking about consecrated life
70. ...being curious about nuns, you're watching a video on YouTube and a nun talks about asking Mary, so you do that before Mass. During mass, you visualize yourself in a habit, and after Mass, an elderly parishioner (who's part of a parish ministry - altar society) tells you "You look like a nun! You should be a nun!"! And you feel all giddy inside!
71. You long for intimate moments with HIM, and nothing anybody else says or does gets to you. All you can think about is HIM. Your true Bridegroom!
72. ..at random places you think about a scenario where you could be martyred like your saint heroes.
73. at random places you think about what a saint would be doing right there and then.
74. .at random places you wish you could be somewhere else praying.
75. ..you're reading threads on this forum about convents, realize it's 7:30am, and you really have to get ready for work.
76. ...You jot down any sins you just committed in a notebook (or on the computer when you get a chance).
77. You wish the confessional was open 24/7.

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