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Online door never closes on discerners Heidi Schlumpf has written for Catholic publications for more than 20 years. She is an associate professor of communication at Aurora University and author of While We Wait: Spiritual and Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt (ACTA Publications).
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SISTER JULIE VIEIRA, I.H.M. (left) and Sister Maxine Kollasch, I.H.M of A Nun’s Life Ministry. “A Nun’s Life is built on the notion that vocation is wherever God is calling us,” says Sister Maxine.
by Heidi Schlumpf
Nothing gets the two founders of aNunsLife.org excited like helping people figure out what God might be calling them to do with their lives.
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O YOU HAVE TO WANT to be a nun to be called to religious life? A listener posed that question to the “Ask Sister” podcast a few years ago. “Could my lack of desire for such a life be proof that this urge I’m feeling is not a calling but something I’ve made up in my mind?” the listener asked. The show’s cohosts, Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M. and Sister Maxine Kollasch, I.H.M., loved the question. Nothing gets the two founders of aNunsLife.org excited like helping people figure out what God might be calling them to do with their lives.
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