Are You Choosing to Be a Nun?

Am, i'm going to read the tropine of the prodigal son as we're going down. And then it says, when the tropaion has concluded, the bishop says in a loud voice to the prostrate candidate. Those who are able and who are willing to carry this heavier burden willingly take up their cross and follow after christ. But those who are able to do that are deciding to to do what everybody should be doing. In your sense, your choosing, by the grace of god, to participate more fully in the life that all of us should be participating in. So thank you for that, and god bless you for that.