I was told last week, on Saturday, I’ll be waiting another year for postulancy and therefore I would miss the first Dominican Novitiate in Vancouver. I had confused my own vocation team by writing something factually incorrect about myself without meaning to.
I was accepting. Obviously I do not want to do this (a religious vocation to the Dominicans) because it is easy. It shook me none the less it.
On Sunday night I was up past 2am getting pizza to absorb some of my Sunday’s coffee. (I try to only take it on Sundays, but I like it so much, I drank a second cup at 5pm. Probably because I don’t drink alcohol, instead I tried to drown my sorrow with coffee.) Walking back to my room in Surrey in the early AM, I realized that there was a mistake.
After dawn had broke and I prayed Lauds, I made what I realized clear to Fr.David . He wrote back saying they would give me a decision soon. On just Tuesday, I received word I was accepted, much to my joy, I was already in the community house studying and I went downstairs to tell the Friars. They knew of course!
The biggest surprise was that they want me to move in to the new house they have bought for the Novitiate, on just October 7th. That is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Her again, I just knew it!
I am very grateful and happy to be in Vancouver again so soon (close to my college, and my outreach team Catholic Street Missionaries, and my friends) and indeed I will be happy to be with the Dominicans of Canada.
What do you think, is coffee better to drink when you are a little sorrowful than a Scotch Whiskey?
~ Andrew Jacob C. Heakes
Mary’s Little Bro — ANDREW HEAKES 
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