A Consecrated Life (2017) Religious Drama Short Film
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- Опубликовано: 20 май 2021
- An intelligent, devout young woman (Gracie Robbin) announces to her family (M.E. Lewis and Lisa Kovack) that she’s going to abandon academics and become a nun, but in so doing, she finds herself in opposition to her family’s wishes and questioning her own spiritual convictions.
Written, edited, and directed by Aren Bergstrom
Produced by Tabitha Grove and Aren Bergstrom
Starring Gracie Robbin, Roberto Ercoli, Oussama Hamoudan, Lisa Kovack, M.E. Lewis, Brenda Somers
Director of Photography: Dexter Calleja
Production Design by Alexandra Goulea
Sound Design by Will Preventis
Music by Christopher Dixon
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I can't express how realistic this is.
Please never make the mistake of marrying someone who doesn’t believe as you do.
I wish someone had guided men how to choose a better partner. Listen to this individual. Here is wisdom.
This is wisdom
I almost did that didn't have the same religious views as me and God ended it and now I know the reason I agree with this 100%
If you want to know someone, do not ask what the person thinks, but loves. ( Saint August)
I thought making the guy such a dork, was a bit much. She would have dated him?
Currently a freshman in college taking up a pre-med course. Funny that this is like what I'm feeling these days. Seems that I am not happy at where I am right now, to the point that I don't study for class. But when it comes to books about God, about our Catholic Faith, I can read and study it for the whole day. I don't know anymore but may God lead me to the path that He is calling me.
Wow. Thanks for sharing your feelings!
@@arenbergstrom Thank you for sharing this wonderful video!
@@shannyylee Thanks so much! I'm glad the RUclips algorithm brought you here! Hopefully it finds the other people it's meant to as well.
Currently a med student in my final year and this is exactly how I feel, I feel so lost
Remain attentive to God's voice. He is faithful.
The boyfriend proved clearly that even if she did get married he would be really bad news.
Why the heck was she even dating him?!
@@JP2GiannaT I thought that was maybe realistic, but how well did she know him not to see that? They didn't have to demonize him for her to become a nun. Many women date nice men and discern. My mom's friend never married but her "love" became a priest. They kept in touch but both were good people.
This is how it is ! I joined religious life in 1986 ; someone in my own family decided I had become a "religious nut" - another person at work treated me as though I were dropping out of society. Yet another decided it was because "I was always a bit quiet" implying that somehow I couldn't cope in the world ! There are inevitably doubts weather you are doing the right thing or not but the only way you will know for sure is to try your calling. I am always grateful to an older friend I asked advice of at the time - I was dithering and he said "God will always reward you for trying" - that did it ! It was the kick start I needed. I've heard the call to follow Jesus in priesthood/religious life as "A nagging feeling that just won't go away" - that was pretty accurate in my case.
As Mother Angelica said once, if you think you are escaping you wont last in convent if contemplative. It's much harder than just "not being in the world". For me being told what to do every second would be hard especially as you get older but with grace, if meant to be, it will be.
Not only beautiful, but dead-on accurate.
Thank you!
shows that prayer is always the answer
Wow - thank you so much for making this video! Reminds me of my own story. It's so difficult when friends and family don't support discerning a vocation to religious life. But the good news is we have a good God, who only wants the best for us. Praying for all those discerning!
Amen, pray for more people to answer the Call to their Vocation.
All of them require chastity and obedience, it just looks different if you're called Priest, Nun, Brother, Consecrated Virgin, *or even the Vocation of Marriage.*
This film is so inspiring and reaches into me so deep. I’m not Catholic, but I truly feel the same within my own faith. Beautiful.
I'm so happy it worked for you this way! Thanks for watching and sharing.
I do too. When I first got saved a lot of people wondered what was wrong with me. But this is the one thing I've never had regrets about.
I'm getting the courage to express my feelings to others that I want to become a Priest
Praying for you
@@MarthaSedano-kf6cj thank you so much
Beautiful! It can be so difficult to follow a religious path that others around you do not understand or accept. But this young woman dealt with this with grace, courage, and fortitude. Certainly an excellent example for all of us!
4:23 - and boy oh boy! is this ever an indictment of modern times, modern families.
This was a good one! I for sure feel very connected with this video since I am the only child with big expectations upon me and a career that today is growing very fast and it was in 2018 when the first thought of wanting to commit myself to make my relationship with Christ an everyday journey lead me to wanting to become a priest. 2023 here I am finishing my second year of formation with a religious congregation looking forward to my first religious profession and in many years becoming priest of that is God’s Will!!
Thanks for sharing!
@CarlosGutierrez - Pls pray for me. I am also an only child of my parents and this worries me a lot that if I join a cloistered convent who will take care of them in their old age? This worries me so much
Thank you ❤
Dear...Just surrender to Lord and pray "Jesus I surrender myself to you take care of everything."
When I left home to join a convent,(ICM Congregation) I worried about my mother. But I surrendered my mother and the family to the Lord.The Lord takes care of them wonderfully.
@@tinam5929 that is a valid and also one of my biggest concerns that hesitate to make the decision but there is this quote from God to St. Catherine of Siena “If you think of me, I will think of and take care of everything you are worried about” God knows that you love your parents, he also knows that you want to surrender your life to Him!! He will take care of any of those worries 🙏🏽
Thank you for this short film. It says a lot.
The film overlooks the fact that a community and the church at large have to confirm a vocation. It’s not the decision of the individual alone.
I thought the same thing when the young woman instantly told the nun she was ready to join.
Woah there! Let's wait a year and then see how you feel.
And why no talk of discernment, that she can change her mind after a year or two? It's not jail. I didn't like how the nun spoke like it was back in her day. Now the nuns stress it is discernment and you need to visit etc. She never even told her parents what kind of nun she was discerning to be.
I wanted to be a nun growing up. My father was excatholic and both of my parents hated Catholicism with a passion. They are abusive narcissists. Even as an adult the control was out of control. I did not know there were nuns outside of the Catholic church. I did not know about Orthodox Christianity (I am now orthodox) so I got married at 37. I still think about monastic life and try to live it as well as I can quietly at home.
That sounds like an extremely difficult situation. Our duties to God come before our duties to our parents. I encourage you to look into Catholicism and find a good, learned priest to talk to if you feel God is calling you to become Catholic. And about living a monastic life at home, it’s my understanding that in the married state your obligation is to love God by loving your family and prayer should not take your time away from them. Never think you should have been somewhere else in life, it is just a discouraging thought and a waste of time. God is everywhere, and certainly in your family if you invite Him to be. May God bless you forever and may Mary keep you!
You should consider Third Order religious orders. You can be a lay person and follow the consecrated living.
You take the same vows as nuns, but you don't take the vow to poverty.
@@sofiarose6039 Thank you for the comment. I will look into it.
@@sofiarose6039 and thank you for the prayer. I have heard it said that, "what if" thinking is a ploy from the devil to keep us unhappy and unfocused. My life is how it should be by the grace of God. I live as well as I am able by His mercy.
It's not "selfish" for someone to become a nun or priest, when God is calling them to do that
Iam too experiencing the same situation. My parents want me to be a doctor. They won't leave me to lead a consecrated life. All my relatives discourage me. I feel like if I won't go now someone will talk me out of this. All I wanted is to be one with Christ. Iam afraid I will lose the love that I have for Christ now after I become a doctor .
Be courageous, that's what most of us experienced but finally many of us succeeded
How are you doing? Are you any closer to your goal of religious life?
@ScarletPhoenix - Follow your heart. Don't live a life that others dream for you coz down the path you will have regrets. Christ is worth everything!
@@tinam5929And MORE ✝️♥️♥️♥️🙏
Don’t worry. Jesus will persevere in His call for you. Just stay faithful to Him. Pray every day, go to daily Mass if possible, and find a good spiritual/vocations director. Once you are an adult and you feel it’s time, whether that means you’ve finished med school or no, discern with a religious order or diocese. Don’t ignore red flags or things that make you uncomfortable in the religious community. Even religious people are still fallen, imperfect human beings. Make sure it’s the right fit. You’ll know in prayer. May God bless you and Mary keep you!!
Breaking up with that guy was a good decision, whether or not she becomes a nun, lol.
Inspiring to decern the religious vocation. Thanks a lot
Thanks so much for watching and for the comment!
Please make more films on this topic.
Very nice! I’d love to see more of these!
I am happy as a seminarian. I thank God for my beautiful parents.
Praying for you
Wow... she's well rid of HIM 😁
Beautiful movie
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for this :)
Thank you for making this! It was really helpful, may God and Mary be with you!
Thanks for watching!
Her mom is extremely narcissistic.
I kinda want the alternative version of this where a guy gets pressured into Seminary by his parents but discerns out. 'Cause you know that happens too.
there are tons of movies of people rejecting God's call. How tiresome.
That happened more in 50's or earlier. An Irish priest told me he went in when his twin left. I was like "what?" Many families believed with more than one son, you "gave one to God" Maybe why so many unhappy priests later.
Just beautiful
Thanks so much for watching!
❤🛐✝️🙏😇👍 Thanks for this. (Shared. And shared again.🙂)
Please make a Part 2! ☦🙏
I wish!
I would like to know what she was discerning. Her parents didn't ask was it a particular order, what kind of service. Contemplative is scary because they know they can't see you. Active orders like Sisters for Life, you can go home on vacation after a time, they can see you if visiting, you can go to a wedding or baptism if possible. It's not as scary to parents who have an only child.
Outstanding ! Praise be to The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit ✝️♥️♥️♥️🙏 (I FELT God at the Finish ♥️😇♥️)
In 1981 something happen to me in my life concerning God! The God that I constantly pray and I ask Him to help me, to know Him better and to love Him in a special way, better and better ! And after many years at the age of 31years, I came to the Lord Jesus and I have accepted Him as my Savior and as the Lord of my Life! And since 42 years, I served the Lord in the call that He gave to me, to serve Him and to be a disciple to bring my testemony in front so many people who accepte the Lord Jesus in their life et has being transformed by Him since that !
I'm telling you this, because knowing the word of God from the beginning to the end, I understand now from the Word of God, what means, the following and serving God and please Him according to his perfect will for us.
Now, I can assure you the point that I want you and that you need to know for your life concerning God's way! Jesus never ask nobody, to be in a kind of convent or monestry where there's all kind of reglementation to follow of doing this or that, keeping silence all day long or to do all kinds of relligious rituels for the rest of your life. Jesus hates the religiousity spirit, it doesn't come from Him at all ! No, contrary of what we think , Jesus said to his disciple, go everywhere and bring the good news to everyone where you preach the gospel, and do the works that I've done and you will be do the greater things for me !
You see, God never ask to nobody, to have a life be completely put a part of the rest of this world!
No, He say, let your light shine in the middle of a darkness world and shine in the middle of them!
Bring the Gospel of salvation, so they can have the chance to receive the possibility to be save and to receive the Eternal Life!
All those religion with all their traditions and rituels liturgies that they do, day after day, years after years, brings a faulse way that Jesus Himself, had never proclaim to do so.
So, read the Word of God, and ask Him to show you the truth for yourselve, and He will be faithfull to answer you ! God bless you and keep you in the truth of his Word, that will set you free and make you a real disciple of Christ according to his perfect will for you! Alleluia!
(Sorry for my english, I speak french and I tried to explain myself the best I can ! thank you for your comprehension of this matter )
There is nothing wrong with being called to monastic life. Jesus often encouraged his disciples to 'come apart', away from the crowds, to pray and be alone with God. If you haven't experienced liturgical worship, you won't know how comforting it is. There are many different callings: cloistered, non-cloistered, consecrated virginity lived in the world, etc. The world today is shouting its agenda far and wide and traps so many in falsehood. Not everyone is called to be in the middle of that. Respect that. There is much value in alone time. For everyone.
@francinelagrange9049 - What God wants for you is not what He wants for every other person. Each person has a different calling. What did Mary Magdalene do once she was saved? Went and got married? There are FEW souls that He wants to be HIS, only HIS, away from the world. Only those who have this calling can understand. The rest like you can live in the world and be His disciples but do not discourage or turn away others who Christ is calling to be HIS. After all He knows the plans for His chosen ones better than you.
Far be it for me to tell God how to call people. Thousands of holy people throughout the last 200 years lived a life of prayer and study in monasteries. Indeed, the people who put our scriptures today such as St. Jerome who helped assemble the new testament canon and provided the first translation from Greek that people could read, lived in a monastery, for example.
Sooo Powerful
This film is quite idealistic. In reality, religious life is hard enough without having doubts that you gave up a lucrative and much-needed career. The nun, who I assume was a vocation director, should have suggested that the candidate wait a year or finish college before joining.
Except if she just got accepted into med school, she is graduating with her bachelor's. But, when God calls, it's time to go.
This is literally me rn. I'm with the same situation 😭
Praying for you
I felt a lot was missing from this short movie, no talk of what convent she was drawn too and why, the nun acted like it was jail, once in she couldn't leave. In the "olden" days you were shamed and left in the dark, but not today. Women discern for years. I felt with med school looming, she was almost escaping to the convent. I would want her to talk to a spiritual director and really delve into is it a real call or something else. I wish she said she wanted to work as a doctor as a nun, that is one order near DC and I know a priest in training who went to med school. Just felt it was good but lacking
Her parents were like many but they would come around. But did she visit convents, did she know one order? Why can't she use her gifts there, some are teachers, some nurses/doctors, some help pregnant women, some work with the poor. If she said she wrote orders, had it on her mind for years, but it seemed so sudden to her parents.
Beautiful film. God calls all of his children to do and become everything He has placed within their hearts, whether ecclesiastical, or otherwise. It is the unregenerate heart that is 'desperately wicked', NOT the regenerated heart, which is pure, and yes, even holy, in the Father's (and Son's) eyes. It's the sincere intention, and noble motive, to do, and to BE, God's Will, that is the determining, and fully justifying, factor.
Good for her God should grant everyone’s wishes. There is no point to making something having that something believe in you and you gaslighting and destroying all their wishes and wants
Wonderful! I think the swearing could have been left out, however. There were probably better ways to portray the guy's feelings without it. Still a great film though! God bless
Where was the Tabernacle in this film. It's supposed to be authentically Catholu, yes?
Funny, she is being selfish? Why, because of the choices they made? Because she wants to live her own life, make her own choices? It is her life to live, how is that selfish? They sound a bit controlling to me and trying to make her feel guilty about it. Smh
I think it was a shock. If she mentioned going on a weekend retreat to one convent or writing them , maybe they'd understand more. Just being religious doesn't mean you are going into religious life and many do discern thinking they have a vocation and they don't. I know one couple who both went before they knew each other, to seminary and convent and left. No shame, it wasn't that, it was for them to marry.
Before you commit to anything, watch 'The shocking confession of Sister Charlotte' - You won't change them, but they will change you! God's Blessings that you seek first His purpose for your life, which he made for you before time began 2 Tim 1:8-10 🙏🏽💗💖
I know a lot of religious sisters, and they're on the whole pretty happy people. Maybe meet a few and get some more perspectives on it.
So im supposed to take advice from an ex nun? Who didnt keep her vows? You may not believe it, but some of us WANT to be celibate.
Is there a part 2?
Not at the moment, but maybe one day!
@@arenbergstrom I wish they discussed orders more, so many wonderful ones catering to different gifts to give to God. I know a man who went to med school (yale) studying to be a priest in DC. I know nuns can be lawyers and doctors, teachers and nurses, work with the poor and pregnant women, dying. So many places to live out your vocation
John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John Chapter 11
25Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
You can make a movie without the vulgar language. I thought this might be a good movie to show to students discerning their vocation, but not with this type of language!
They've probably heard it before from other people..
You can't run away from reality. Once students choose this path, they are definitely going to hear more vulgar words than this.
"Whoever wishes to follow me, take up his/her CROSS and follow me.".... Jesus
@@JP2GiannaTJust because they may heard it before, doesn't mean it's okay. The more we hear it, the more it wears down our conviction against it.
Reality must be portrayed. But certainly some hard words could be replaced.
Thank you for a beautiful film.
If you do make part 2, that you consider the following request please, the f-bomb and cursing hurt my spirit. New Testament admonishes us not to use strong language. God's will not mine. Thank you so much for reading my.
True, but the bible is full of horrible and hurtful things and they are there in God's holy word to teach us. One of the essential differences between the Law of the Old Testament and the New is that under the old law we are to set ourselves apart from evil. In the NT, Jesus teaches that we have the power to go into Evil and bring Good. This is the meaning behind the often mis-understood phrase, "the gates of hell will not prevail" If you think about it, no one attacks with gates. The idea is that we are going to prevail over hell and draw people out of evil. Jesus went into evil and brought good. We must do the same. Fasten your chin straps, we're goin' in!
If you are going to use a little known word like Consecrated, please define it first..
Consecrated life is a state of life in the Catholic Church lived by those faithful who are called to follow Jesus Christ in a more exacting way..
is that definition still true without the word Catholic or is it only for Catholics? ie: state of life in the Christian Church lived by those faithful who are called to follow Jesus Christ in a more exacting way..
When you choose to go nun after racking up student debt, who pays off the debt? nuns don't have money to pay off student loans. and joeyB can't forgive that debt. Lovely that she became a nun. but you have a responsibility to pay off your debt first.
One cannot enter a religious order with any debt. Yes, I'm a vocation director
My hunch is the first we pay the debt, then we go….at least that’s what I did….
They have charities that help, others say they have to wait. Why should they take that on? Some charities though, if you leave, one girl was told after a year, this convent wasn't for her, you do need to repay I'm sure. That wouldn't be right or maybe they hold payment in some way.
I have hearing loss and could not clearly hear the speaking due to the the music overpowering the voice so I left. I don’t know why so many channels on here have the need to drown out the voices with music. Not all these channels have cc. This is how you lose followers.
I'm sorry you couldn't hear what was going on in the film! But RUclips does have automated closed captioning that you can turn on when watching. It's the little "CC" symbol next to the settings and autoplay buttons. Hope it works for you in the future!
since when was the F* word good scripting in a film about Consecrated life?
If these woman knew that they don’t have to be nuns to become true followers of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus commanded us to love him, to follow his commandments, to preach the gospel with friends, family, coworkers and make disciples not to join a monastery
What you said is a general statement, which is correct. But what is more correct is to do the WILL of Father Almighty. For example: If Jesus led a very good married life with lot of children , will that be ok? Then will the mankind be saved?
Didn't the disciples left their loving wife and children to proclaim about Jesus to the world?
“Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. - Matthew 7:21
What is required is to do the will of the Father, as you are able to discern it, whatever that may be. And not everyone is called to the same thing. Paul said it well, that there are many different parts, doing different things, in one body.
That’s Only YOUR Version ✝️♥️♥️♥️🙏
@@allanramusiewicz996 it’s in the Bible so it’s not MY version it’s God’s version
If devoting your life to Jesus isn’t loving Him, then I don’t know what is.
i wanna be a nun just for shits and giggles
I hope you don't trivialize everything and everyone in your life.