{"id":27172,"date":"2012-09-14T15:08:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T19:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/nuns-pray-for-vocations\/"},"modified":"2012-09-14T15:08:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T19:08:50","slug":"nuns-pray-for-vocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/nuns-pray-for-vocations\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuns&#8230; pray for vocations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Sr%20Lauren%20Funk%20and%20Sr%20Mary%20Dominic%20Linden%20Monastery.tif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sr Lauren Funk and Sr Mary Dominic Linden Monastery.tif\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/09\/Sr Lauren Funk and Sr Mary Dominic Linden Monastery-thumb-200x131-12774.tif\" width=\"200\" height=\"131\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a>I was reminded earlier today of a need to pray for vocations to the contemplative life. A former colleague of mine recently entered Dominican life as a cloistered nun at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindenopnuns.org\/\">Saint Dominic&#8217;s Monastery<\/a> in Linden, VA. It is a traditional monastery of nuns, a very young of women who make a sacrifice to pray for us and the needs of the world. The postulant, Sister Lauren (left) is seen with a veteran nun, Sister Mary Dominic.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Pray for vocations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As an aside, the Huffington Post had this special article with pictures of those who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/09\/14\/religious-celebrities-stars-wanted-become-priest-or-nun_n_1884079.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&amp;src=sp&amp;comm_ref=false#slide=1513963\">&#8220;thought&#8221; they had a vocation<\/a>. One actually did pursue a vocation as a Benedictine nun at Regina Laudis Abbey (Bethlehem, CT), Mother Dolores Hart.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded earlier today of a need to pray for vocations to the contemplative life. A former colleague of mine recently entered Dominican life as a cloistered nun at Saint Dominic&#8217;s Monastery in Linden, VA. It is a traditional monastery of nuns, a very young of women who make a sacrifice to pray for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/09\/nuns-pray-for-vocations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nuns&#8230; pray for vocations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,11],"tags":[32089,1796,1723,2816,1724,2164,1725,1707],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}