Shortly after Easter Vigil Mass, the Superior General of the Brothers and Sisters of Reconciliation informed me that I was officially accepted into the Order as a Novitiate, and the Monday after Easter I gave my initial private vows. I was already in habit, which had already been blessed, etc., and my studies continued.
A few weeks later I was accepted into the Knights of Columbus and in one night did my First and Second Degree ceremonies. Because I was a Novitiate in a Religious Order, i was told that a 3rd Degree ceremony was happening the next day an hour north if I wanted to go. My Superior General told me to go. In that I was only a Novitiate I sat the ceremony as a Lay person and went through the whole process.
I had reached my thoughts of being able to go into the Knights of Columbus Halls I had seen in the past. (I am STILL to go into the one in Maryland, that I WILL go into one of these days!)
I was one step closer to putting on the habit I had dreamed of years earlier, and even before it had been created!
Studies got more intense and days grew shorter as I read and wrote more!
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