subject: Chapter 9: My Religious Vocation [print this page] Father O'Toole continued to play a prominent role in our family. When I told him of my decision to enter, he told me that he knew of it. I asked if Sister Marjorida had told him and he answered no, but that God had told him. I looked surprised and then he asked if I thought that the community, Sisters of Notre Dame , was the right one for me. I said it was the only one I knew and that I had friends there. He did not continue to elaborate, but once when he visited me in the novitiate, he said that if I ever needed to talk to him , he was available. When I think back, I realize that he knew better than I how difficult it would be for my free spirit to be encased in all their rules and regulations. But that was something that would take me eighteen years to learn. I was full of zeal and wanted my life to make a difference, I wanted to help the poor and bring about justice and peace in our world.
