‘Boots on the ground’ — Catholic life for a consecrated virgin

What does a consecrated virgin actually do?

Marriage prep is probably the last place you’d expect to someone to find a vocation to consecrated virginity. But for Celeste Thomas, a marriage prep session, decades ago, was the first place she began to have the sense of a call to an unexpected vocation. 

For Thomas, discerning that call took time — and turmoil. But after more than two decades of cons…