Discouraging Priesthood?

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He acts as if he is not going to be a seminarian, where in reality, he has made a decision and has applied, why might one act as if they’re not called by God? He is angered by people knowing too.
 
He acts as if he is not going to be a seminarian, where in reality, he has made a decision and has applied, why might one act as if they’re not called by God? He is angered by people knowing too.
It’s an incredibly difficult thing to tell people, and there will be a large element of fear of how people will respond. Sometimes it’s hardest to tell your closest friends, just because of the magnitude of the decision and finally having to admit it to people and in some ways to yourself what your thinking about. Our modern culture portrays responding to a call from God as a crazy thing to do and sometimes you do ask yourself the question am I the only one who thinks like this? trust me in the beginning his sounds like a fairly normal response and one of a person coming to terms with things.
 
He acts as if he is not going to be a seminarian, where in reality, he has made a decision and has applied, why might one act as if they’re not called by God? He is angered by people knowing too.
How do you know he HAS applied? Even if you’ve seen completed application forms sitting on his desk it doesn’t mean he’s sent them in. For that matter even if he’s sent them he might since have changed his mind and decided to withdraw the application.

Besides which, application doesn’t mean acceptance. So until his application IS accepted he is not in fact ‘going to be a seminarian’ at all.
 
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