Why Heresy To Habit?

Why Heresy To Habit?  Because in three simple words, my life’s journey in pursuit of Truth is summarized.  In three simple words, the grace of God is expressed and Jesus’ love is made evident.  In three simple words, it is clearly demonstrated how our ways are not God’s ways and we cannot imagine the plans He has for each one of us.

I started life as an Evangelical with a touch of charismatic.  I treasure my roots in faith, for it was as an Evangelical that I cultivated a love for Scripture, a thirst for Truth and wisdom, and an intimate relatonship with Jesus Christ.  I was passionate and devout in my faith and never imagined I might be Catholic.  In fact, I knew very little about the Catholic Church.  All that changed the year I graduated from law school.  I had grown cool in my devotion and desired to fan the flames in a new faith community in a new town.  In learning more about Protestant doctrine, I began to see inconsistencies and holes.  I began to doubt.  So I prayed.

As always, God faithfully answered my prayer in a most unexpected way: He led me to the Catholic Church.  For the first time, Scripture, all of Scripture, made sense and could be understood as a whole, something that all the Protestant doctrines of the many denominations I had attended couldn’t do.  I went back to the roots of Protestantism and studied the pillars that were erected in the course of the Reformation.  I examined Protestant and Catholic doctrine and teaching.  One by one, the pillars fell and I knew I had to be obedient to where God was leading: I had to be Catholic.

My quest for Truth has led me to another place I never expected to go – religious life.  Specifically, I feel called to enter a community of cloistered Dominican nuns.  Amazingly, the motto of the Dominican Order is “Veritas” – Truth.