Amigas del Senor
Invitation to Amigas del Señor - Feb. 23, 2007
By Beth Blodgett

Dear Friends,
 
If you know someone who may be interested in spending time with us, please feel free to share this invitation with her.
 
Amigas del Señor is a monastery for women in Limón, Colón, Honduras.  Our monastic calling is to a life of prayer, spiritual formatin and voluntary poverty.  A day in our life includes worship, gardening or sewing, housework, music and reading.  Our spritual practices are mostly in the United Methodist and Friends (Quaker) traditions.  We don't ask women who come to have particular religious beliefs or backgrounds.  We ask that they be open and willing to participate fully in monastic life.
 
An aspirant is one who comes to the monastery suspecting that she has a long-term monastic call (lifetime or several years).  She makes a one-year commitment to begin to try out this call.
 
A sojourner is one who feels a call to invest time in her spiritual growth and in service.  She usually does not suspect a long-term monastic vocation.  We accept sojourners for periods of one year or longer.
 
Discernment is a slow and prayerful process.  It is possible that one who is called to this monastery will not know whether she is a sojourner or an aspirant.  Seeking God's will for each woman is part of the shared monastic work.
 
A woman who comes to us is at least 18 years of age (21 or more is preferred); there is no upper age limit.  She is unmarried and without minor children.  She has no medical conditions that would endanger her by living without electricity and remote from secondary health care.
 
An aspirant or sojourner is willing to live in a Spanish immersion household.  She has the capacity to work alone and as part of a team.  She enjoys learning.  She knows how to laugh.  She need not have specific vocational skills or minimum level of education.  She understands that her job is whatever needs to be done, whether it uses her special training and/or gifts or not.
 
Aspirants and sojourners do not pay money for the privilege of living the monastic life.  Neither do they receive financial recompense.
 
Interested women should contact Beth Blodgett.  By mail: 
Beth Blodgett
Amigas del Señor
Limon, Colon
Honduras
 
By email:  bethblodgettnow@yahoo.com
 
Information about Amigas del Señor is at  http://www.umoi.net/artman/publisher/cat_index_94.shtml.
 
 
Dios les bendiga,
 
beth