{"id":6903,"date":"2006-06-28T00:09:50","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T00:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/hearing-a-call.html"},"modified":"2006-06-28T00:09:50","modified_gmt":"2006-06-28T00:09:50","slug":"hearing-a-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/hearing-a-call.html","title":{"rendered":"Hearing a Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nice article about one woman’s journey to the Catholic faith, and then to religious life:<\/a><\/p>\n

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After they returned from Paris, she and several other women lived at an empty convent connected to her parish school. While the order eventually declined to found a women\u2019s religious group in Chicago, Sister Kathleen Clare didn\u2019t give up on answering God\u2019s call. That\u2019s when the Benedictine Sisters arrived in her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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They offered to establish a small novitiate at their motherhouse in Clyde for the monks as a training for women interested in religious life.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn less than a year I was the only woman remaining,\u201d Lahl said, \u201cand since the monks said I couldn\u2019t return to become a community of one, I stayed on at Clyde as a volunteer while discerning where God was leading me.\u201d<\/p>\n

As she lived with the Benedictine Sisters, she began to treasure their tremendous sense of hospitality, love and dedication to the Eucharist. She realized she was right at home with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\u201cThere\u2019s a beautiful balance of monastic life here enabling the inner silence for mindfulness of God\u2019s presence,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is where I was meant to be. God was leading me here all along.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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