Any other teenagers feeling a call to the priesthood?

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Hawkmaid said:
🤷 I don’t see a problem with finding it funny. I wear a purity/rosary ring for that reason, and it’ll either be switched out for an engagement ring or a Consecrated one! 😃
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Ah well I had to give reasons to excuse myself if you were in someway offended by that off-handed comment. That’s a pleasant notion. Best of luck to you anyway and God bless…
 
StBenedictLabre said:
I’d think the same - it does certainly look like he was corrupted or “corrupty” as you put it by the devil. I assume you mean Fr. John Corapi? I hadn’t heard of that scandal but I’ve scanned through it there on Wikipedia and he seems an interesting figure in many ways. A millionaire debauched real estate developer, a vagrant, an almost saintly priest judging by apparitions he supposedly received and then an exile from his ministry for undisclosed reasons but anyway that’s that…

You should start a book of cliches and maybe that’s a vocation in itself. I wonder what your Diocese’s Vocations Director would have to say that but anyway…
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Oh yeah, I forgot his first name. I could be wrong about what exactly happened, I was rather little when it happened.

Ha, yes! They would probably say “God helps those who help themselves”. ;D Are there any Irish cliches?
 
StBenedictLabre said:
Ah well I had to give reasons to excuse myself if you were in someway offended by that off-handed comment. That’s a pleasant notion. Best of luck to you anyway and God bless…
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Yep, I would do the same. 🙂 It never hurts to clarify when you’re online. Thanks! God bless you as well.
 
Hawkmaid said:
Oh yeah, I forgot his first name. I could be wrong about what exactly happened, I was rather little when it happened.

Ha, yes! They would probably say “God helps those who help themselves”. ;D Are there any Irish cliches?
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Well there are many like the fact we’re a nation of alcoholics (I know a town with a population of 1,500 that on its Main Street has 8 public houses or pubs as we’d call them - I’m not sure if you’re familiar with that term), that Ireland is a very green place as it’s full of green fields and that we’re all very happy go lucky. We were very Catholic and religious in the past, I know in 1973 mass attendance was 90% and as late as 1990, it was 85%. It’s plummeted with all the abuse scandals and also because of the fact that our nation suddenly after decades of poverty had a two decade economic miracle so to speak so to become something like the twelfth or fifteenth wealthiest nation on Earth and something like third wealthiest in terms of wages per the population from somewhere in the hundreds at least so it’s now 35% so that’s not much of a cliche anymore but anyway…

I can think of many cliches in terms of quotes, that’s what we’re great for…

“May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.”

“What is Irish diplomacy? It’s the ability to tell a man to go to hell, so that he will look forward to making the trip.”
“Early to morn, early to rise, keeps a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

Other phrases, which are universal. I could add hundreds but everyone says these…

“Ah sure look it” - as an acceptable response to any question or comment as in “Isn’t it lovely weather we’re having?” “Ah sure look it.”
“The jacks” - for the bathroom.
“Gwan outta that” - an expression of disbelief
“Arseways” - doing something wrong as in “We tried to cook that turkey but it went arseways.”
“Banjaxed” or “That’s banjaxed” - breaking something; to banjaxe it.
“Any use?” - “Was that any good?”
“Donkey’s Years” - A long amount of time. “I haven’t seen her in donkeys years.”
“Quare” - Very. “Sure it’s quare warm today.” You could replace quare with awful as well. All weather is fierce as well. It could be fierce warm or fierce cold or freezing as we’d that, sure that’s fierce freezing.
“Janey Mack” - instead of taking the Lord’s name…
“The press” - A cupboard.
“The Gards” - Our police force. They’re known as the Gardaí but everyone calls them the Gards…
“The boot” - the trunk of a car.
“Minerals” - Soft drinks.
“A jumper” - A sweater or pullover.
 
StBenedictLabre said:
Well there are many like the fact we’re a nation of alcoholics (I know a town with a population of 1,500 that on its Main Street has 8 public houses or pubs as we’d call them - I’m not sure if you’re familiar with that term), that Ireland is a very green place as it’s full of green fields and that we’re all very happy go lucky. We were very Catholic and religious in the past, I know in 1973 mass attendance was 90% and as late as 1990, it was 85%. It’s plummeted with all the abuse scandals and also because of the fact that our nation suddenly after decades of poverty had a two decade economic miracle so to speak so to become something like the twelfth or fifteenth wealthiest nation on Earth and something like third wealthiest in terms of wages per the population from somewhere in the hundreds at least so it’s now 35% so that’s not much of a cliche anymore but anyway…

I can think of many cliches in terms of quotes, that’s what we’re great for…

“May you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live.”

“What is Irish diplomacy? It’s the ability to tell a man to go to hell, so that he will look forward to making the trip.”
“Early to morn, early to rise, keeps a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”

Other phrases, which are universal. I could add hundreds but everyone says these…

“Ah sure look it” - as an acceptable response to any question or comment as in “Isn’t it lovely weather we’re having?” “Ah sure look it.”
“The jacks” - for the bathroom.
“Gwan outta that” - an expression of disbelief
“Arseways” - doing something wrong as in “We tried to cook that turkey but it went arseways.”
“Banjaxed” or “That’s banjaxed” - breaking something; to banjaxe it.
“Any use?” - “Was that any good?”
“Donkey’s Years” - A long amount of time. “I haven’t seen her in donkeys years.”
“Quare” - Very. “Sure it’s quare warm today.” You could replace quare with awful as well. All weather is fierce as well. It could be fierce warm or fierce cold or freezing as we’d that, sure that’s fierce freezing.
“Janey Mack” - instead of taking the Lord’s name…
“The press” - A cupboard.
“The Gards” - Our police force. They’re known as the Gardaí but everyone calls them the Gards…
“The boot” - the trunk of a car.
“Minerals” - Soft drinks.
“A jumper” - A sweater or pullover.
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Oh yes, you should come to America on St. Patrick’s day. EVERYBODY here thinks they’re Irish. :rolleyes: We do use the word “pub” here, but we’re lazy and say “bar” more often - or if you’re really classy (sarcasm), it’s a “restaurant WITH a bar”. 😉

I’ve heard probably five of those; I had no idea there were so many different ways to say stuff! We call soft drinks “pop” here in Ohio, but if you go further west, it’s “soda”. Some people just call all of it “coke”. As in “No, I didn’t mean Coke coke, I mean the orange coke!” XD How does one end up calling a cupboard a press, I wonder… Seems painful, haha! Where does the word Gardaí come from?

I wish we had that many sayings. Well, when talking about America in general, I guess there’d be a lot to consider (like how some people call water fountains, the ones you drink from, “Bubblers”. 🤷:D). But Ohio itself…I have no idea. I can tell you some of my family’s sayings, though; toddlers really influence the way you talk. XD
 
Hawkmaid said:
Oh yes, you should come to America on St. Patrick’s day. EVERYBODY here thinks they’re Irish. :rolleyes: We do use the word “pub” here, but we’re lazy and say “bar” more often - or if you’re really classy (sarcasm), it’s a “restaurant WITH a bar”. 😉

I’ve heard probably five of those; I had no idea there were so many different ways to say stuff! We call soft drinks “pop” here in Ohio, but if you go further west, it’s “soda”. Some people just call all of it “coke”. As in “No, I didn’t mean Coke coke, I mean the orange coke!” XD How does one end up calling a cupboard a press, I wonder… Seems painful, haha! Where does the word Gardaí come from?

I wish we had that many sayings. Well, when talking about America in general, I guess there’d be a lot to consider (like how some people call water fountains, the ones you drink from, “Bubblers”. 🤷:D). But Ohio itself…I have no idea. I can tell you some of my family’s sayings, though; toddlers really influence the way you talk. XD
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It’s ridiculous 😃 Every American I think I’ve ever talked to went into all that business of “Aw yeah, well my great great great grandfather married a girl who’s cousins half cousin claimed to have a goldfish that was 1/8 Irish” It’s ridiculous hahaha, is there some agenda amongst all you Americans to suss out your heritage? There’s certainly far too many people claiming to be this amount Cherokee and that amount from Bally so and so in Ireland that’s for sure. There’s actually more Irish born on this island living abroad than there are here, which is a bit bizarre but anyway…

I can’t claim to know an awful lot about Ohio but I’m sure I’ll hear a bit from yourself about it anyway…

I know some people who just deal in slang. A lot of the time when I’m on here consists of editing out slang terms so everyone just won’t be puzzled as to what I’m saying. I’ve never heard that one about bubblers but I’m familiar with people calling any sort of cola ‘coke’. I can’t remember it expanding to orange and so on, that’s a bit odd now hahaha but sure that’s it, I suppose…

Gardaí, pronounced like Car with a G and then “dee”. Our police force is known as “An Gardaí Siochana” which means Guardians of the Peace in Irish as they don’t carry guns or any sort of weapon, which you Americans might find a bit odd. That’s just shortened to Gardaí then, I suppose. Cupboard, said like “cubburd” comes from and now I had to look this up but it comes from the simple fact that you store cups and different cutlery on boards or shelves if you like in general pieces of furniture. I didn’t know that but that’s it anyway…
 
Even though I’m no longer a teenager, and being in college. I felt a call to the priesthood while in high school. While I did speak to several priests about my priesthood tendencies, they all said that I should follow God’s will.

Right now, I am simply trying to gain enough life experience, and maybe if God wills it, I’ll apply to the Jesuit novitiate.
 
Well, I am a girl and a freshman in college. But I do feel a call to the sisterhood. 🙂
 
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