Discerning Vocation To The Priesthood

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Hello all,
I’m a high school guy discerning the vocation to the priesthood. I’ve felt this calling and been cool with it up until the time I started really thinking about the consequences of it.
I have some really great friends (guys and girls) and we are all apart of a team at school. We are the type of friends where you can just feel the lifelong friendship. However, if I go to seminary, will I have to throw all of these friendships away?
Certainly I will not be able to go on trips with them or simply hangout. Or I feel that I also would not be able to just grab lunch during the summer to catch up with them.
I know I would form a brotherhood at seminary, but these are my friends and it really hurts to think about their immediate absence.
Please be gentle with your advice and I’d appreciate if you didn’t press the vocation.
 
Even those who enter a cloister often keep their lifelong friends, though certainly their relationships change.
 
I stayed in touch with several of my close friends all throughout seminary. Some of them came to my ordination and first Mass, and I’m still close with most of them.

One thing to be realistic about is that regardless of what vocation you discern, friends will come and go. I’m close to maybe five people I went to high school with, with about a dozen or so college friends, with a couple dozen from seminary. It’s just a fact of life.

-Fr ACEGC
 
Gentle prayers sent your way…just that you be a faithful follower of Christ.
 
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