Do any one know if nuns or sister in Catholic living allowed to have a stereo?

Mediakira said:

I have many cd's and movies. I'm now trying to let go many things. But I don't know if I'm allowed to have a tv and a stereo with cds.

Yes, me Mediakira is becoming a nun. I just hope every goes ok. It might take a two years before I move in. I still need to take the catholic classes to convert.

Sorry! I just like to work early. When I decide what to keep. I have too much stuff in my Group home. I really need to move out. And in my group home no one wants me to become a nun. Sigh....

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It depends who are choosing to follow. If you are choosing to follow the teachings of your church over the teachings of the Holy Spirit, the results will be much different. Jesus died to set us free from rules. We only have the outstanding debt to love one another.

Paul writes about being freed from slavery to sin:

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, 1984 NIV) The bold is mine and highlights a command from the Holy Spirit through Paul.

You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. (Galatians 5:4, 1984 NIV)

But now that you know God—or rather are known by God—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again? You are observing special days and months and seasons and years! (Galatians 4:9-10, 1984 NIV)

The end of this passage extends the freedom from sin to freedom from man-made rules (which is done in other places in Scripture, as well, and some more directly, too).

Jesus has set you free from sin, the worst thing that ever existed. Would you not be free from lesser things, such as food choices, what music you listen to, what clothes you wear, and money spending choices?

I recommend you work through your spiritual issues before committing to any long-term course of action so that you will (1) know the Lord Jesus Christ better, (2) know more of the Truth, (3) have better judgment in making serious decisions, (4) experience more of the Lord's help with your problems, and (5) be able to focus on the living Jesus Christ himself and less on what rules you think He wants to you live by, and (6) be happier.

What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. (Philippians 3:8-9, 1984 NIV)

“Everything is permissible for me”—but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me”—but I will not be mastered by anything. (1 Corinthians 6:12, 1984 NIV)

The last phrase is a reference to slavery to sin. In other words, God has set you free such that everything is permissible, but do not sin, because it enslaves you. And of course, it is a bad idea to do things that oppose what is beneficial.

If you need to be re-grounded in the kinds of things that God cares about and desires for us to act upon, read Exodus 20:1-17 and the passages around Isaiah 58:7 (and many other places).

Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. The commandments, “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. (Romans 13:8-10, 1984 NIV)