Discerning call to Glenmary Home Missionaries

[lovealways]

I am discerning a call to be a priest with Glenmary. Can anyone provide any information on Glenmary Missionaries who serve in the rural south? Are they fairly orthodox? Any other issues?

 

[Lepanto]

I know someone who spent a summer with them. He left in disgust saying that they are VERY liberal, (as are the Jesuit Volunteers).

I say look elsewhere for orthodoxy.

 

[Legal_Eagle]

I am discerning a call to be a priest with Glenmary. Can anyone provide any information on Glenmary Missionaries who serve in the rural south? Are they fairly orthodox? Any other issues?

I personally know numerous Glenmary priests and brothers. They serve in many of the parishes in my area. The Glenmary priests and brothers I know are holy men who love God, love the Church, love humanity and love each other. They work very hard, they live very humbly, they commit themselves wholly to their mission. Ask any Catholic who lives and works with the Glenmarys and they will tell you that they are the backbone of rural underserved areas of the Country. They do the work and take on the parishes that nobody else wants. The fact of the matter is that I don’t know where the Church in rural Northeast Mississippi would be without the Glenmarys.

As far as orthodoxy goes, I have never heard one of them utter one unorthodox statement. Now, on the other hand, if you equate orthodoxy with right-wing Republican politics, you might disagree. But if orthodoxy, to you, means that a person believes in, preaches and practices the authentic principals of the Catholic faith, then the Glenmarys are orthodox.

All of that having been said, why are you listening to people on the internet? Go the Glenmarys and see for yourself.

Best wishes.

 

[puzzleannie]

I have known many Glenmary priests and sisters, and worked with them for years on a cooperative project with our former parish and Glenmary Applachian missions. This experience has been uniformly positive and the ones we know are without exception good and holy priests and religious, faithful in teaching and practice.

I second above poster, join as a mission associate or through a parish venture (used to be called Connective Ministries, I think it is now called Taste and See, where parishioners can spend a week in a rural parish working and serving). there is also a summer camp experience for prospective seminarians and lay missioners.