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A CHANGE OF HABIT: A Spiritual Journey From Sister Mary Kateri To Sister Mary Vodka
By: Patty Ptak KogutekImprint: Balboa Press
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" A Change of Habit is moving and soul-searching ..."
- Constance Holcomb, retired publishing executive
"The arduous journey of this teenage girl to womanhood is a profound story containing lessons for all of us."
- Walter D. Serwatka, retired chairman of the board, MacMillan-McGraw-Hill
"This was a real joy to read! Heartwarming ... inspiring ... I didn't want to book to end. I laughed, cried, and cheered you on!"
- Aaron Harper, spiritual counselor
A Change of Habit recounts a spiritual journey that started when a religious eddy hurls seventeen-year-old Patty into a convent in the 1960s. Her deeply embedded guilt drives her to obey the Catholic Church, please her earthly father, and say yes to her heavenly Father. But in the convent, she fails to find happiness in religious rites and rules. Her time in the convent parallels changes wrought in religious life by Vatican II, including changes of names and attire. After leaving the convent following seven years of service, she assumes she can pick up her life and move on. But once the religious habit comes off , long-practiced habits of poverty, chastity, and obedience dog her into married life. Finally facing the reality mirror, she breaks out the debilitating patterns learned in the convent.
In finding true spirituality and finally listening to the God within, she shakes the destructive habit of guilt. Her story speaks to like-minded "guilt sponges," offering hope on their personal spiritual quests. She shares the seven secrets to guilt-free living learned on her journey. A Change of Habit is not the story of a girl breaking from the convent to live happily ever after; the story's uniqueness hinges on how ingrained duty lodges. This story of personal reinvention and empowerment that takes place over forty years shows that it's never to late to change one's future.
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| Title of Religion eBook: A CHANGE OF HABIT: A Spiritual Journey From Sister Mary Kateri To Sister Mary Vodka | |
| Release Date: 12-08-2011 | |
| Publisher: Balboa Press |
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A CHANGE OF HABIT: A Spiritual Journey From Sister Mary Kateri To Sister Mary Vodka
Chapter One
Packing Black
Choosing my own clothing that day was the last decision I made for myself. I selected my blue and gray plaid skirt with a matching blue cashmere-like sweater for Sunday church.
After arriving home from Mass that morning in September, I had just enough time to fold the last of my new clothing into the black suitcase. We had purchased all the items on the nun checklist—even down to the industrial black shoes that I'd picked out with seven of my girlfriends on a shopping trip. The convent had sent a list of items to bring with me the day of entry—kind of like getting ready to go to summer convent camp.
While my high school girlfriends crammed trunks with new colorful fashions for their first year of college, I packed the nun list of drab, dire, black skirts and blouses for practical use, not adornment. I left my pink lacy bras and panties in the drawer, bringing instead the big white cotton granny-type underpants. Those and a few long-sleeved white blouses provided the only deviation from prescribed black. I pushed the black out of my head, assuring myself that the happiness the nuns exuded would make up for the dour lack of color.
No sooner had I latched the suitcase lid, than my sister Penny waltzed into my bedroom. With hangers of skirts draping over her arms, she aimed to claim my closet.
"Can't you wait just one more day? Get out of my room!" I shouted at the invader.
"Make me," she taunted, poking her boney finger in my arm to up the confrontation. "It's going to be my room soon, so you'd better get used to it."
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