Source/Credit: BBC
Each year in Britain a small but growing number of young women are giving up careers, boyfriends and everything they own to devote themselves entirely to God.
Catherine describes herself as “a girly girl” who loves to be pampered. She has also wanted to be a nun since she was four years old.
Like many of her contemporaries, the 25-year-old has spent the last few years travelling, partying and studying for a degree in languages at King’s College in London.
She also worked as a model, but for her it was an unfulfilling experience and left her thinking again about devoting her life to God.
“I went to castings, they always wanted me to do catwalk shows,” she says. “I remember after my first professional paid show, going home and feeling really empty. Feeling like ‘is that it’? ‘That’s not great as I thought it would be’.
“I love people and I love having a good time, but that’s not all there is.”
Catherine has been visiting St Dominic’s Priory in the New Forest, which welcomes guests and offers spiritual retreats throughout the year.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15385144
Categories: CHRISTIANITY, UK
Let us formally extend a cordial invitation to all these potential nuns to also read about Islam at this point in their life, so, they do not have to change careers mid-stream, like Karen Armstrong had to, when they are disillusioned by the Christian theology.
It may be hard work, but, better now then later after investing years or decades in less fruitful pursuits. Here is my collection of articles on Christianity:
http://knol.google.com/k/zia-shah/christianity-should-it-evolve-into-islam/1qhnnhcumbuyp/217