A vocation to religious life

"...is always a mystery. Even more of a mystery when this call is a call to leave the world and join a Cloistered, Contemplative Community. It is as real and needed today as it was centuries past.

"There is a magnetic beauty about Contemplative Life which whets the human appetite for God.

"Contemplatives witness to the holiness of God and the unfathomable love which lies behind the story of Jesus. He is our Way; our Truth; and our Life. This Truth has so captured our hearts that we are willing to leave the material world and vow ourselves to live our Baptismal Life to the full.

"This is how the Passionist Nuns of today take the pains and sufferings of this world seriously. In other words, we go to the heart of the Mystery of God's Love: Jesus Crucified and Risen."

From the website of the Passionist Nuns of St. Joseph Monastery and Retreat House at Whitesville, KY.

This site includes a wonderful vocation story by a self-described "small-town Hoosier girl" and "Teenager of the 80's."