Sister Mary Lou / Westphal, Wilma R & Chester E / (PB/1980-1980/B/USED)

*Condition Note: Book is well used and clean. Has some minor spotting and moderate cover wear.*

Mary Lou Pfannenstiel grew up with a the strong desire to become a nun. After completing her grade-school years, she left home to attend the Sisters of St. Joseph's Academy. She gladly accepted the life and routine at the academy and look forward to the day when she would take her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and become the bride of Christ.

Then changes began to creep into the church, into the Order, into the very way of life that Mary Lou had become accustomed to accepting. Ideals, theories, and counter theories began to bombard the oldest and most conventional spiritual bulwarks of her church.

Doubts began to arise in the mind of Sister Mary Lou and her Sister companions. Perhaps the greatest shock came with the realization that the pope, the priests, and bishops, along with the mother superiors, who had always been held as above sin, were really fellow human beings, capable of making mistakes and sinning against God the same as others of the human race.

The university to which Sister Mary Lou had been sent did not help to alley her doubts and fears. And at last she felt she could no longer remain a nun, a Sister in the hierarchy of the church.

The story unfolds showing Mary Lou's struggles to accept a new way of life and give up the old dogmas. Meeting Ed Reilly, himself a Catholic but also having doubts, led to a deep searching of the Bible. It took a step-by-step study of the Bible directed by a man fully consecrated to God to show God's way to Mary Lou and Ed Reilly whom she married.

CONTENTS

Grade School Days
St. Joseph's Academy
Young Brides of Christ
Adventures in the House of Studies
Early Teaching Years
Six Nuns at Gladstone--Emerging Conflicts
What Has Happened to the Old Traditional Rules?
Efforts to Fill the Voids
Searching and Decisions
The Guiding Hand of God
Romance and Fulfillment
The Bible--Only Rule of Faith
What Is Man?
The Law of God
By Faith Alone
The Possessions of God
A Matter of Choice
Ends and New Beginnings

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