Do any of you seminarians or to-be seminarians do this?

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catholictiger said:
i heard in DC in one of the masses before march for life there were so many priest in one procession that it lasted 45 minuets :eek:. yeah there are alot of priest in the world its amazing.
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Yep, that was a very, very, very, very, looooooong Mass. It was awesome though. 12,000 people in a church that was built to seat 6,000.
CatholicZ09 said:
You know how most people daydream about their marriage, especially women? Ya, well, I daydream about ordination day.

This excites me so much:

youtube.com/watch?v=sTtZhNijFgc

I often daydream about hearing confessions, giving Holy Communion, giving a homily, etc. I read in To Save a Thousand Souls that daydreaming about these things is typically what a man who has a true calling daydreams about.

Anyways, thinking about ordination, I think I’d be a hysterical wreck. So much pressure! How would I sleep that Friday night? Then thinking about all the people that would be there. :hypno:

This would be me the whole Mass: :bighanky:
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Hahaha, one of my friends was ordained this past Saturday and we were joking about how he’d be in bed Friday night then think, “Wait, I’m going to be priest tomorrow. What on earth am I thinking?!?!”

I noticed one of the other newly ordained priests was crying afterwards too. And yeah, I’d probably be bawling my eyes out as well.
 
Jonathan_V said:
Yep, that was a very, very, very, very, looooooong Mass. It was awesome though. 12,000 people in a church that was built to seat 6,000.
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If that’s the pro-life vigil Mass that you refer to, I gotta say that I was part of that epic procession.
 
Biedrik said:
If that’s the pro-life vigil Mass that you refer to, I gotta say that I was part of that epic procession.
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Sure is! And sweet! Then I might have seen you. We got there 2 hours before the Mass started and we didn’t even try to look for seats, we just sat down right next to the door.
 
CatholicZ09 said:
You know how most people daydream about their marriage, especially women? Ya, well, I daydream about ordination day.

This excites me so much:

youtube.com/watch?v=sTtZhNijFgc
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Anthony_V said:
youtube.com/watch?v=sTtZhNijFgc

I didn’t even know there were that many priests in the entire world!
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What a coincidence! Those priests are from the Congregation of Holy Cross, which operates the University of Notre Dame as well as the surrounding Holy Cross College and St. Mary’s College.

I’m an incoming CSC seminarian this August as a college freshman in the Old College Undergraduate Seminary program at Notre Dame 👍 (Feel free to check out the Congregation.) 😃

And yes, I have definitely daydreamed about the priesthood and what it would be like to celebrate Mass, hear confessions, and perform extreme unction. Also wearing the cassock is one of my top dreams haha. I just think it looks great and it’s an incredible advertisement for vocations whenever priests wear it. To me, this is a healthy sign of a priestly vocation in any young man’s life. But I think we shouldn’t romanticize the idea of the priesthood so much that we lose the reality that being a priest is difficult work. After all, we might one day become priests and find out that our daydreams in the shower weren’t how it really is haha and this might disappoint us.

Anyways, however, let’s continue to reflect upon the sacrament of holy orders. Besides giving us hope of the future, daydreaming about the priesthood helps us recognize the good priests we’ve had in our lives. I mean, in addition to divine intervention, we must have been inspired by the actions of certain priests or religious in our life that have made us think about pursuing this vocation.
 
jdc209 said:
Anyways, however, let’s continue to reflect upon the sacrament of holy orders. Besides giving us hope of the future, daydreaming about the priesthood helps us recognize the good priests we’ve had in our lives. I mean, in addition to divine intervention, we must have been inspired by the actions of certain priests or religious in our life that have made us think about pursuing this vocation.
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Definately agree with the above. Actually, the thought of priesthood is a realtively “new” idea (well, two years thought) for me. I never really considered it until hearing my old parochial vicar (now vocations director :D) speak about his vocation story. It was really inspiring, and I believe that helped “plant” the seeds of a vocation in me. I think that they were just there all along, but I never noticed and/or paid attention to them. Our Lord is very very patient!
 
CatholicZ09 said:
Definately agree with the above. Actually, the thought of priesthood is a realtively “new” idea (well, two years thought) for me. I never really considered it until hearing my old parochial vicar (now vocations director :D) speak about his vocation story. It was really inspiring, and I believe that helped “plant” the seeds of a vocation in me. I think that they were just there all along, but I never noticed and/or paid attention to them. Our Lord is very very patient!
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Our Lord is patient as well as mysterious haha.

Last night, I kind of realized how much I had changed in just four years. Growing up, I used to be an atheist even though I was baptized Catholic. Then I had sort of a spiritual conversion my freshman year of high school and then I just started appreciating my Catholic heritage and faith. I received my First Communion and confession freshman year and then confirmation senior year.

One day in freshman or sophomore year, the idea of becoming a priest just popped into my head. I reasoned that if I loved the Church so much, who not just become a priest? :rolleyes: Then I started researching, praying, talking with others, and just exploring this vocation. And now I’m headed for the undergraduate seminary.

The words that always give me hope are ones written by St. Augustine in Confessions: “God recovers what He never truly lost.” It’s a comforting paradox. Through all my past disbelieving, God never really abandoned me. It kind of makes one think just how many people are called to be priests or religious but they never attempt to listen to the call.
 
jdc209 said:
The words that always give me hope are ones written by St. Augustine in Confessions: “God recovers what He never truly lost.” It’s a comforting paradox. Through all my past disbelieving, God never really abandoned me. It kind of makes one think just how many people are called to be priests or religious but they never attempt to listen to the call.
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That’s exactly what my vocations director told me. People today believe that the Church is in a vocation shortage, but honestly, it may be because young men are not answering the call and just getting married. I mean, does our society promote marriage and family? Yes. Is marriage and family bad? No. Is priesthood something odd in our society’s viewpoint? For some, yes. Do priests have a bad rep in today’s society? Yes. However, we need to look past the bad ones and look at the good and holy men that answered God’s call. There really are inspiring priests out there who practice what they preach and mean what they say. I don’t believe that the Lord would cease to continue calling young men. He doesn’t want the Church to die out.

I also think fear and anxiety has a lot to do with it. Satan is the father of fear!
 
Oh my goodness, I do these things all the time. My computer is chock-full of pictures of Dominicans, diocesans, bishops, and canons in their various garb. Cassocks, birettas, surplices, rochets, ermine, miters, and those-little-carry-all-bags-Fr.-Brown-used are just littered all over the place! My kitchen table is just high enough to be an imaginary altar, so I often set up my Missal on a tiny podium with a Bible (ad orientem, of course :cool:), and try to memorise all the rubrics. Often enough, I find myself saying “May the blessing of Almighty God, F., S., and H.S., descend upon you all…”, even in private Rosary prayer! Oops!

I can’t imagine being anything other than a priest. Whenever that holy Host of majesty is elevated high above the altar, as if in glory about the whole world, I shiver at the clemency of God in dealing with us. Approaching that holy altar, whereupon bread becomes man becomes God, I can do nothing but bow with all my heart and soul in tow. At home, I often read the Preface of the Mass for a given season, and practice singing the tone (Vere dignum et justum est, aequum et salutare…). Thankfully, though I don’t yet raise my arms like a priest during the Lord’s Prayer at Mass… 😛
 
haha I’m glad I’m not the only one who practices Gregorian chants 😛 I do them in the shower or whenever I’m folding laundry haha.

One of my friends even chants “Asperges Me” in the shower 😃
 
Have any of you tried the solemn dismissial chant for the Easter season? That “Go in the peace of Christ, alleluia, alleluia”? I don’t know if I could be able to do that! 😊

Not to mention that the only thing to which I listen is religious music. 😃

Ya, I think all these signs are definately what Fr. Brett likes to call “idiot-proof” signs.
 
CatholicZ09 said:
“Go in the peace of Christ, alleluia, alleluia”/QUOTE]

As I read that, I actually sang it in my head. I don’t think I could even hit the note on “Christ” though out loud hahahaha

I look forward to all the hard work that a priest gets to do. I envy them all! I wouldn’t ever have a day that I dread going to “work”. “Father, we need help renovating the Marian garden!” *I appear out of the door in a tacky gardening suit with a shovel over my shoulder.

“… Let’s do this.”
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Do anyone imagine themselves teaching little kids in CCD or youth groups in general? I would love to do that. 😃

I just love answering the questions little kids ask, but sometimes I think they think that priests are intimidating! 😃
 
CatholicFireman said:
.Hi.

May I ask how many of you are seminarians and to-be seminarians? Speaking of black birettas, you might like this blog:

blackbiretta.blogspot.com/
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I think it’s safe to say that most of the posters in this thread are either seminarians or to-be seminarians. I think I counted one official seminarian and several incoming seminarians (myself included). The rest are most likely going to look into applying to a seminary after high school I bet.

:crossrc: God willing of course.
 
jdc209 said:
I think it’s safe to say that most of the posters in this thread are either seminarians or to-be seminarians. I think I counted one official seminarian and several incoming seminarians (myself included). The rest are most likely going to look into applying to a seminary after high school I bet.

:crossrc: God willing of course.
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Thank you. You are all in my prayers. Pax†
 
I will have dreams of myself saying the Mass or hearing Confessions. Sometimes I’ll also daydream of wearing the cassock.

Mostly during the homily I will come up with my own homily…

I also have an extreme fondness of vestments and so I look up vestments online all of the time.
 
Finding yourself frequently thinking about doing something a priest would do, like saying Mass, preaching, confessions, anointings, etc. is often a sign that God is calling you to that vocation. I spent several years “daydreaming” about such things before I finally got the message and acted on it.
 
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