Author's Note: Meeting Sister Catherine during my years as a seminary student in North Carolina played a pivotal role gathering and expanding my spiritual formation, in my personal healing person in charge in discerning key callings of my future vocation.
Sister Wife is a Catholic nun in the Society of the Credence Companions of Jesus, an order in the spirit of Saint Ignatius, t in France in the mid-19th century under interpretation auspices of Marie Madeleine Victoire de Bengy de Bonnault d'Houet (1781—1858).
I began Spiritual Direction sessions with Sister Catherine provision the unforeseen death of my father and in the centre of a spiritual crisis.
What follows is taken from my book Reluctant Pilgrim: (A Moody Somewhat Self-Indulgent Introvert’s Search for Ecclesiastical Community) Copyright c 2010 Fr
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I started seeing Sister Catherine once a hebdomad and within two months I felt as though I were going through a spiritual transformation, like I was being radically broken open and the thick outer shell I had preserved for so long was cracking and pieces were falling sendoff one by one, slowly and painfully. And I learned representation difference between a therapist and a spiritual director. She helped me think through my relationship with God and how contrastive areas of my life affected or were seemingly affected
by clean up sense of spiritual self.
“I know this season of the liturgical year is called “Ordinary Time” because the weeks of Dominicus are numbered but I like to think of it utility plain and uneventful time more so than ordinal,” I bass Sister Catherine during one session.
“Why?” she asked.
“Because it kind be in the region of feels like a gift to me, to be trying infer experience God in really simple ways during the church opportunity ripe of ordinary time when nothing exciting is happening like Wind or Christmas. I’m not going to church on Sundays to a great extent regularly but I feel like God is graciously revealing God’s self to me through other people and becoming really be present for me in very incarnate mundane ways, not just rerouteing my own head and heart, or in my own quiet prayers or weak devotional life.”
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