not gonna lie, even though i'm happily married, i'm kinda little jealous of this vocation. Something about it is so beautiful and special.

@mariemunzar6474

21 күн бұрын

Well I think that with each vocation you gain something special while sacrificing another life you could have lived. It's just the balance of life.

Congratulations. I was consecrated 10 years ago here in England.

I am Esther from kenya. I really admire this vocation. I am a teacher and love doing good to people and have a passion for the mission.

"Our hearts are restless until if find rests in you". God be with you always, In nomini Patris ef Filio et Spiritua Sancti.

You are an inspiration. I'm too old to consider consecrated life. All I can do, while having to for a living, is pray in my bedroom, recite the rosary, practice lectio divina and contemplation, Adore the Sacrament, follow devotions, read the lives of saints...there's plenty I can to live a religious life I can, in my own terms.

@KR-ms6km

Жыл бұрын

And yours is not less worthy!

@michaellasims8116

Жыл бұрын

​@@KR-ms6km 0k

@elizabethheim1130

9 ай бұрын

An inspiration? No no no. She is the SAVIOR. For God will come back for a second time, but he can only do so through a Virgin. Mary our sacred mother, pick her as your vessel so that Christ can save humanity again!

@amandadelassus2128

9 ай бұрын

@@elizabethheim1130 Mary is the mother of Our Savior, not the Savior.

@elizabethheim1130

9 ай бұрын

@@amandadelassus2128 but had her holy loins not spread to birth our savior, we as humans would not exist. Therefore Mary helped to save the world. This young lady before us today making this sacred vow must pray incessantly that Mary chooses HER sacred body to do just as Jesus intended: to be saved only for Christ’s second coming!

I love that there is whole “wedding” for the consecration!

@jatnarivas8741

9 ай бұрын

The sacrament of marriage has more reasons to have quotation marks around the word wedding than this. Read up.

@jonascastejon5888

6 ай бұрын

​@@jatnarivas8741Correct, it is a *real* wedding as much as the regular ones or that of the sisters and nuns, except their bridegroom is Christ. The only "weddings" with actual quotation marks are those of women "marrying themselves" which is not only ridiculous but sad.

I didnt know there was such a thing as a consecrated virgin. So cool.

Wow I have never even heard of this in my decades in the church!

@alicegates9838

11 ай бұрын

I never heard of it either!

This is nice... hearing it for the first time!

What a wonderful, wonderful thing. If you bring one person closer to God then it is a truly great way to have lived your life. The video was beautiful.

Congratulations, Michelle!! Beautiful video & story. God bless you!!

I vowed to God when I was little that I would be consecrated to Him, but my local Bishop says I must wait until I am 30. Nowhere does it say I must be that age to say my vows. I would like to be a consecrated virgin and a diocesan recluse. Please of you have any advice or know of any Bishop who would let me say my vows, I would be immensely grateful. God bless.

@sme7385

2 жыл бұрын

NO ONE should exclude you at any age.

@freshbrewedasmr3378

2 жыл бұрын

@@sme7385 thank you. It’s very discouraging but I try to keep hope

@ugomariapablo

2 жыл бұрын

I strongly believe you were ill informed about this whole business. I suggest that you should open yourself to marriage or approach a Monastery or Convent if they will still have you. This video is actually against the Tradition of the Church. The Church didn't retain everything it did. Even though it seemed as though the Church did this, the Church certainly abandoned it and quite discouraged it through out its history after the early Church. It was dug up from the grave by the Post Conciliar Church after Vatican II. Science and the Catholic Faith stands against this life. You were certainly ill informed. I'm so sorry.

@freshbrewedasmr3378

2 жыл бұрын

@@ugomariapablo You are the one ill informed Have you ever even read the Catechism?

@cxthsripps691

Жыл бұрын

Wonderful 😊😊 check out the information packet for consecrated virgins, there's a pdf online. And since you mentioned recluse, there's also a manual on eremetical life by cardinal Raymond Burke. I got it printed. I'm in the same boat, though I'm male. I have to work to save up enough money to eventually become a hermit. I wish consecrated virginity was open to males also, atleast because of the gender issue: like how there's female saints who have mystical marriages to Jesus, there's also male saints who've had mystical marriages to Our Lady. So atleast something along that line. Anyway pls pray for me. Thank you

Wonderful and beautiful!

Absolutely beautiful! God bless you!

So beautiful ❤❤

What a Nice Beautiful Inspiring Person , Such a Lovely asset to The Church , God Bless🙏🙏🙏

So beautiful, please pray for me and my husband and our marriage also my four sons and daughter and grandchildren

The fact of never having been touched by anothrr Human Being. The sense of innocence is strong.

beautiful and inspiring

Awesome thank you for answering your call

Thanks for posting--I have reposted the link to all of my social media-- using the Share function. 🙏😇🕯⛪💌⏳

Beautiful!

Beautiful!💖💖💖

Congratulations....Praying for you...

God bless you!

Blessings to you sister in Christ Jesus 💕❤️🙏👍🇺🇲!

I consecrated myself a celibate for the kingdom 8 1/2 years ago,with no bishop

@insanelogic9471

Жыл бұрын

Bless you daughter for the true kingdom of Christ lives within you. Be steadfast in Our Father, for many trials are yet to come.

@jatnarivas8741

9 ай бұрын

Then it is laudable, but not quite the same :)

God bless you!!

@jyotiminz8389

9 ай бұрын

Hi Sister, nice to hear from you of consecrated virgins life. I'm an Indian, wants to be a Consecrated Virgin but here in my place not known about this so

I have the same Ignatius Bible! :)

@danacaro-herman3530

Жыл бұрын

@Bijan C. So do I!! 🙏

This is wayyyyyyyyyyy cool. I think consecrated virginity is a lot easier than being a nun. Beautiful lady.

@karinacruz2836

Жыл бұрын

It’s way harder.

@oldsoul4762

Жыл бұрын

We don't have the support of a religious community like a lot of Religious do. We have to support ourselves.

@oliviaschwickerath4082

7 ай бұрын

It really isn’t.

Love.

Beautiful!😂

Love you +

I wish there was a vocation like this for men.

Is this also available for men apart from being in a holy order ?

Sometimes a woman doesn't feel drawn to a convent, active or not active. It's hard to give up all autonomy and get up at 5 everyday for example and ask like a child must, to go home for time off or buy some deodorant. I understand the rules although priests don't have them, but there are many ways to live out a vocation. Not everyone is drawn to the same thing

I may have missed a post but i didn’t see a post about male consecrated virgins…anywhere. Kind of begs the question, where are they?

@georgepierson4920

Жыл бұрын

I looked that up once, apparently, it does not exist.

@gretaweiss6802

Жыл бұрын

In their mother’s basements. Lol 😉

@jatnarivas8741

9 ай бұрын

They are in the same place as women priests. Women can't be priests and men can't be consecrated virgins, because women can't be bridegrooms and fathers and men can't be brides and mothers.

Can guys also do this?

@gray_mara

2 жыл бұрын

No, consecrated virginity is a female vocation.

@nevillefernandes6893

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. It can be done. There is even a Congregation in the Catholic Church ------- if you wish to explore

@vaderetrosatana625

2 жыл бұрын

how , ?

@jatnarivas8741

9 ай бұрын

Not as a consecrated virgin. You can be consecrated and a virgin, you can consecrate your virginity in private to God, but you can't be consecrated a virgin to be a Bride to Jesus and a mother to the Church when you are a man.

What if I'm not a virgin and was married? Can I do that?

@georgepierson4920

Жыл бұрын

In the Catholic Church, a consecrated virgin is a woman who has been consecrated by the church to a life of perpetual virginity as a bride of Christ.

@joshyman91297

Жыл бұрын

Mo

@jatnarivas8741

9 ай бұрын

No. You can become a nun, or a sister, if you are a widower AND of your children are all grown. I think there was a way, I don't know if there still is, for married people with independent children if both are entering consecrated life, but I'm not sure.

Help me please 😞

@sarahrei4530

2 жыл бұрын

What do you need help with?

Consecrated Lay Discernment life of prayer ? May will be done that It is also me I'm an altar server

@Scpr.ValerieMay

Жыл бұрын

Can a harrassment victim Be one too? I had a background. But I'm still strong

There are those that want this, and that's amazing. But for those that don't want this and want marriage it feels like something is wrong with us.

@mariemunzar6474

Жыл бұрын

Why does it feel that way to you? Did somebody tell you the married life wasn't good or was less than? Marriage is beautiful.

@KR-ms6km

Жыл бұрын

@@mariemunzar6474 And marriage is of equal worth and beauty!

@zelie1155

Жыл бұрын

Both are good and beautiful **callings** from God.

@oldsoul4762

Жыл бұрын

Nothing is wrong with you! 💜 Marriage is just as beautiful a Vocation! You give us our spiritual children to love and pray for! 💜🙏💜🙏 Be sure of my Prayers!

@jatnarivas8741

9 ай бұрын

Actually something is right with you. Marriage is the image of the reality of this vocation. Now, it may also be that you are "fighting" your true vocation. Celibacy IS indeed a higher calling. Not all have it.

What if God is calling you to be with him in your 50 or 63 give everything you have to the church What do you say no nun is saying you don't belong because of your age will you not except her because of her age because she not good enough ? How do you feel when you say no What would God do when you tell her no?

@catherinejohnston4371

3 жыл бұрын

Can you please give us a answer 🙏

@gray_mara

2 жыл бұрын

Very few convents will accept an aspirant of mature years. This is because older women are set in their ways and are not flexible enough to completely submit themselves to religious life. Obedience is a virtue outside religious life as well. If the superior says no, and gives you valid reasons why that will not change, then you should accept that and seek a different congregation that is more closely tailored to your needs. You should see in the superior the will of God, and know that He has something greater planned for you, out of His great love for you.

@Jacquiandteddy

2 жыл бұрын

It's not because you are not good enough, far from it. But you can still consecrate yourself to God privately, as an individual, or by joining a third order. You can commit yourself to Him and pray the office every day, either for a particular intention like priests for example, or offer your prayer for the world - and my goodness is it needed! If God is calling you, then find ways to live out the life he is calling you to and ask him to show you what He wants you to do.

@allykat5899

2 жыл бұрын

@@gray_mara obedience is not a virtue. If that where true then every soldier who helped carry out the holocaust who was just following orders was virtuous and that is ludicrous.

@gray_mara

2 жыл бұрын

@@allykat5899 Your understanding of obedience is incomplete, resulting in your flawed conclusion. A Catholic is required to be obedient, but there is a hierarchy of obedience. If someone on the street tells us to slap our mother in the face, we do well to ignore them, because a) they have no authority to give us that order and b) we have a higher obedience to honour our mother. If your mother told you that skipping Sunday Mass without a good reason is not a sin, you would commit a sin of disobedience if you did what she told you. This is because while you owe her obedience, she does not have the authority to contradict the laws of the Church, to which you owe obedience. The soldiers who committed atrocities were disobedient because obedience to God is the highest obedience. We cannot obey man and disobey God, doing what we know to be wrong, and call it obedience.

Some married people live in celibacy!

@jatnarivas8741

9 ай бұрын

In continence, not celibacy in the strict sense that the Church uses the term (which means unmarried)

How on earth was Mary a consecrated virgin? Scripture clearly states that Jesus had siblings, other children after Christ was born. The book of James is written by a literal brother of Jesus. Stop making nonsense up.

@gracey5512

Жыл бұрын

I heard that, according to the church tradition, Joseph was a widower with children from his first marriage when he married Mary. And, back in the days, many young women died during childbirth, so it was fairly common for a widower with children to seek a new wife. So that would explain how Mary could remain a virgin and Jesus could've had siblings.

@tomy8339

Жыл бұрын

@@gracey5512 Church tradition or scripture? There's a vast difference. The problem with what you say is that it's plainly countered by the scriptures. At the end of John, when Jesus is on the cross, he speaks to John and says, (about Mary), "behold your mother". Meaning, as scripture states, he took Mary into his home and looked after her as his mother. This referred clearly to Mary. So this church tradition is invalid.

@amandadelassus2128

9 ай бұрын

Lol….study the early Church Fathers instead of Jack Chick, and you might come to a different conclusion.

@tomy8339

9 ай бұрын

@@amandadelassus2128 How about you study the plain scriptures instead? Jesus clearly had siblings. Anyone calling themselves Christian and not knowing that needs to go back and study the Bible.

Forgive my ignorance; but literally married to Christ? Would that make him a polygamist?

@renee187

10 ай бұрын

No, Christ is God and our ultimate destiny is to be one with God for all eternity, married to Him. Marriage is a symbol of that union in Heaven that God calls all of us to. Consecrated virgins are a sign to the world that there is more than just this life.

@jatnarivas8741

9 ай бұрын

No because His Bride is the Church, and the Church is One, and is His own Body. It is as though we are cells in His Body. All His Members, we the faithful, make up His mystical Body.

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I find the idea that virgins are closer to God kinda ridiculous their is nothing to my knowledge in the Bible to indicate such a thing.

@kellyanna94

2 жыл бұрын

Have you read your Bible? Paul writes about this more than once in 1 Cor 7. He writes how he wishes everyone were unmarried as he was, so they can devote themselves to the Lord in a way married people cannot. :) It's not that virgins are "closer" in the sense of excluding married people, they just have much fewer distractions to keep them from fully embracing and plunging into the Christ life. Read the entire chapter!

@allykat5899

2 жыл бұрын

@@kellyanna94 I don't consider Paul to speak for God though so I don't take his words as authoritive.

@happy777abc

Жыл бұрын

Virgins have more time to draw close to God. They don't have to think of taking care of a spouse.

@allykat5899

Жыл бұрын

@@happy777abc virgin and married aren't the same thing.

@happy777abc

Жыл бұрын

@@allykat5899Yes, that is obvious. Being a virgin and being married are not the same thing. Consecrating oneself to the Lord and remaining a virgin( or (celibate) gives space to offer up sexuality to the Lord, and also gives more time to think upon Him and serve His church. Being married plays out in loving a spouse in a union that symbolizes the union w our Lord, while serving Him, but not having as much time to serve Him, as one has to be concerned w the needs of the spouse more, as Paul states.

There is no greater or higher calling a woman can have than to put her body, and her mind, to the purpose for which they have evolved. Motherhood may not be the easiest, but it is the most important, job on earth. Not to say that she should be popping out babies as fast as she can. NO. The raising and shaping of our children from birth to young adulthood is critical as it shapes, not only the next generation, but many generations to come as the baton is passed from mother to daughter and from generation to generation. Women are meant to be the keepers of the race, the guardians of the future. The world is in shambles today at least partly because women have largely dropped the ball. By thinking they should be corporate CEOs and politicians, or even imaginary "virgins" as part of men's religious fantasies is absurd and perhaps even vulgar. Those women who choose to stay at home and to raise and shape our babies, our children, our young men and young women into good, responsible, caring, respectable adults deserve our highest respect, our thanks and our gratitude. They certainly have mine.

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@amandadelassus2128

Жыл бұрын

No thank you.

@jyotiminz8389

9 ай бұрын

Hi Sister, nice to here from you of consecrated virgins. I'm from India, wants to consecrate my life for God. But here in my place not not known about consecrated life. So I would like to ask you how and where can I go?

@goalisheaven

9 ай бұрын

​​@@jyotiminz8389 you don't need to go anywhere..just serve the humanity. Stand with justice, spread the message of almighty. Read and research about the unchanged truth of Almighty, words of God Quran..

Doesn’t live in a community. No other community members to care for her when she’s sick or gets elderly. What if she looses her home or job? So sad. So weird. Why not just be a sister or nun in a convent? Sounds like she’s antisocial and afraid of intimacy on all levels.

@DethBy3ToeSloth

Жыл бұрын

? Why can’t she have any friends or people to take care of her? I’m sure there are plenty of people in her parish who are willing to help her out if she fell on hard times. You are making a huge assumption. Be better than that.

@jatnarivas8741

9 ай бұрын

The best reason not to be a sister or a nun in a convent is not to be called to do that: you don't feel called to their charisms, you don't feel called to their kinds of service, you don't feel called to their kinds of community. Getting into a congregation out of fear of being alone, or fear that God may not provide for you otherwise, or due to fear, at all, is not a good idea.