Linh realizes that many outsiders have apprehensions about religious people. I try to make them feel comfortable around me. The message becomes alive for us and we start to live it. Brother Patrick Cousins, religious studies junior, guides an informal group of campus students considering religious life. A lot of people think we're all boring, old, crotchety and that we can't relate to women.
Vocations offer spirituality, community and the ability to make a difference in people's lives.
Both Linh and Cousins stress that normal people enter vocations. Both young religious people might be their own best examples. Linh echoes the thought in more detail. Well, the religious life is just the opposite. I think some people are getting fed up with what society puts forward as success.