On Monday, I received my application for candidacy for Holy Orders in the mail. This feels, rightfully so, like a major step for me. I have two years of Divinity School behind me, and one of my friends who is a year ahead of me was ordained as a deacon in June. If everything goes smoothly, it’s likely that I could be ordained as a deacon next year.
Initially, when I was going through the ordination process, the goal seemed to be to get the bishop to let me go to seminary. Ordination itself was too far off to really grasp or think about. Besides, there were 3-plus years of schooling in an unfamiliar field in which I had little to no background standing between me and ordination. Now I find myself in a position where I have to notify a few of my professors that I will be missing class during the first week of school to travel to my candidacy interviews.
So if anyone has a few prayers to send my way for continued discernment and peace during the rest of this process, I would appreciate it.
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July 1, 2010 at 3:50 pm
Abby
That sounds so exciting! I’ll definitely be thinking about you over the next few months…not that i don’t think about you normally.
July 6, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Thomas
You will be in my prayers.
July 31, 2010 at 5:01 am
Adele
I think that your ability to not think about ordination until you went to seminary is really a gift. Too often I plan my life way too far in advance and never really enjoy it.