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SISter ANNe elizabeth Fiore, V.H.M. coaches her school’s softball team.
Happiness took me in an unexpected direction Despite urgings from her friends to serve God in other ways, this former city kid knew that the monastery is where she’d find her joy.
SiSter Anne e. Fiore, V.H.M.
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he WAITress came to take our order, but we motioned her away. We were crying too hard to talk. Although we had broken up months before, we had never really ended our relationship. On this the eve of our final parting—he heading to graduate school
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Sister Anne E. Fiore, V.H.M. is a Sister of the Visitation of Holy Mary at Georgetown Visitation Monastery. She teaches Latin, coaches softball, and moderates club dodge ball at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School. When she’s not grading Latin papers, correcting batting stances, or chasing stray dodge balls, Sister Anne can be found at home in the monastery, where she serves on the vocation team and edits the community blog: http://livejesus. blogspot.com.
in another city and I to my last stop before entering the monastery—we began to reminisce about our journey together. We were both surprised at how difficult it was to believe that this would be our last date. We laughed through our tears; we eventually ordered our food and ate through our tears; and we walked home through our tears. Amid the healing and the closure that our meeting provided, one of the most poignant memories was his final remark when we said good-bye: “What makes me sad is that your happiness and my happiness take us in separate directions.” And at that I realized that my Baptist ex-boyfriend had a much clearer understanding of vocation than many of my Catholic friends. God wants us to be VISION 2010
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