A Seal Upon My Heart: Autobiographies of Twenty Sisters

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intro. by 20th cen.'s Passionist vocations expert Godfrey Poage, C.P.

In the Rebel Hearts documentary on disobedient Vatican II era nuns, one Modernist says: "The proposal of marriage and so forth did not appeal to me that much." This is an unhealthy, perhaps even lesbian, attitude.

These attitudes are healthy:

a Benedictine writes on her vocation (pp. 119,22, PDF pp. 137,40):

Much as marriage appealed to me, much as I enjoyed the company of boys, I knew I didn’t really love the fellows who had ring ideas. … For a while I thought a husband was the answer. God would bless a wife who chose to do her husband’s will.

a Sister of Mercy on her vocation (p. 85, PDF p. 103):

Sometimes I considered marriage and a family. But these intervals were short. In hours of prayer and quiet reflection my big discovery would rush in upon me and overwhelm me. To be a sister was to be a bride of Jesus, to exchange nuptial vows with Him, to enjoy His special affection in this world, and to follow Him in heaven with a song that only virgins sing. {cf. Apoc. 14:3: "no man could say the canticle, but those hundred forty-four thousand [virgins] who were purchased from the earth."}