Comments on: Becoming a Vicar’s Family in Training http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/7 on being the family of a woman training to be a priest in the Church of England Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Allie http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/7/comment-page-1#comment-374 Allie Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:19:59 +0000 http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/?p=7#comment-374 ps obviously assuming allowing women priests came along earlier! ps obviously assuming allowing women priests came along earlier!

]]> By: Allie http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/7/comment-page-1#comment-373 Allie Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:04:27 +0000 http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/?p=7#comment-373 Hi, Not sure if you'll ever see this but if you do could you ask your wife if she is glad that she waited to become a vicar? I'm 24 and, as like it sounds like your wife did, have felt a call to ordination for around 5 years now (on and off but always there). I have a good job, which could develop into a great career and am thinking of starting a family in the not-to-distant future but I'm thinking of starting to properly approach the road to ordination. So I guess my question is, is she glad she waited or if she could go back would she go for it at a younger age? Thanks Allie Hi,

Not sure if you’ll ever see this but if you do could you ask your wife if she is glad that she waited to become a vicar? I’m 24 and, as like it sounds like your wife did, have felt a call to ordination for around 5 years now (on and off but always there). I have a good job, which could develop into a great career and am thinking of starting a family in the not-to-distant future but I’m thinking of starting to properly approach the road to ordination.

So I guess my question is, is she glad she waited or if she could go back would she go for it at a younger age?

Thanks

Allie

]]> By: Isobel Ashmead http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/archives/7/comment-page-1#comment-3 Isobel Ashmead Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:28:25 +0000 http://www.vicarsfamilyintraining.org.uk/?p=7#comment-3 Had exactly the same experience when my spouse became a VIT. Juggling for morning prayer tested the idea of support when i was trying to get myself and my daughter to 2 different schools and my son to the child minder- all in different directions. The sunday pattern when on placement was also interesting. Was I on placement too? We did a free Christmas dinner ie a pair of pheasants shot by the church warden though which helped! Had exactly the same experience when my spouse became a VIT. Juggling for morning prayer tested the idea of support when i was trying to get myself and my daughter to 2 different schools and my son to the child minder- all in different directions. The sunday pattern when on placement was also interesting. Was I on placement too? We did a free Christmas dinner ie a pair of pheasants shot by the church warden though which helped!

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