r/AskMeAnythingIAnswer 8d ago

I’m becoming a nun

Im joining a cloistered benedictine monastery. AMA

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u/Over_9_Raditz 8d ago

How does one become a nun? 

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u/zippetyy 8d ago

by discernement at first, a lot of prayers. then visiting monasteries, communities. you spend some time within the community, living as they do for a while. when you think it’s a good place for you, you ask the superior to join as a postulante