Once I filled out the online survey, the flood began: Apparently I had not been discerning enough in my responses to the survey questions, because I think every religious order ever founded sent me an email or a note in the mail. It was quite overwhelming. There’s still a bag in the back of a closet in my parents’ house filled with vocations promotional materials that I really should recycle. How then did I ever decide to join the Carmelites?
It was one simple…