Engaged AND discerning the priesthood?

[housewife]

Do not take any chances and leave. Go back home.

 

[jmj603]

The priest we spoke with actually told us to “work it out as we do get on well.” And I’m thinking… “Are you serious? Did you just hear him say he’s considering the priesthood even though still involved with me?”

That’s NOT the problem here.

It is his duty to discern a vocation if he thinks he has one. One of the EWTN priests discovered a vocation while he was engaged and has helped millions of people since then.

 

[Nepenthe]

Yeah, hopping on the bandwagon here. Get while the getting’s still not too awful. This one doesn’t sound like he could discern his own patoot with both hands and a map, let alone marriage or priesthood.

 

[puzzleannie]

I’ve We went to see a priest together who basically told Dennis he didn’t feel that the priesthood was right for him. The priest feels that Dennis gets too caught up in romantic notions. And his romantic notion of the priesthood will also fade once the “new” has worn off.

this priest is right on the money
just paraphrasing the story in OP
it is about a man who has convinced in GF to move in with him
it is about a man who by his own testimony judges the status of relationships, including that with his fiancee, and of his own spirituality purely on the basis of human emotion
this is about a man who has lied, habitually, about a long-time relationship with another woman to his Fiancee
this is about a man who discusses his most intimate feelings freely with others, yet hides intimate feelings from the person he ask to marry him and to move in with him
this is about a man who is demonstrably spiritually immature, and seems to exhibit immaturity in handling intimate relationships, and who refuses to accept spiritual direction

such a person is not discerning the priesthood, such a person is juggling relationships with two women and playing them off against each other using the priesthood as a decoy.

if you are asking for advice, mine would be, to any daughter of mine, you have no business shacking up, no matter what you do in your spare time, because you are not married. pack up, go home, get a life, and put emotional maturity high on your list of priorities when looking for a new fiance.