When I got home, I looked up the Order, which had been “raised” about 9 or so years earlier. It was small, and consisted of Lay Brothers and Sisters and was newly starting to have Religious Brothers. All lived withing the vows of Poverty, Obedience, and Chastity to Station in Life. To become a member, you had to be a Catholic in Communion with the Catholic Church and over 18 years of age.
While I was not yet a Catholic in title, I was finding that I was a Catholic in heart, and sent a letter to the Superior General asking to join the Order as a lay member, until I was accepted into the Church. A few days latter, I was accepted as a Postulate, and I clothed myself, on my own, as a Novitiate in their Order. I gave God my vows of Poverty, Obedience, and Chastity to Station in Life. (And in writing I gave the same to the Superior General.)
Over the next year, up to Easter, I worked with the Novitiate Master and my Priest as I would have if I had been in the Novitiate, completing all the requirements of a Novice in the Order. I followed the Rule of Life of the Order, and went everywhere in the Novitiate Habit.
In Christ!
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