I, A Loser, May Get to Hang Out With Sorority Girls

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I fail to see what all of this discussion about sorority girls has to do with a call to becoming a Franciscan Friar. But I do know one thing, part of being a good friar is knowing how to related to all people, men and women, as one’s brothers and sisters.

While I regognize the healthiness of being attracted to the opposite sex, I have to question the readiness to become a brother in one who displays a lack of understanding of the opposite sex. Men and women are attractive for many reasons. Being members of a particular set is not one of them.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
I thought he was writing with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek…but then, I’m an Alpha Gam and we think pretty much everything is funny.
 
I think there are many great girls who do not happen to be in sororities 🙂

(btw I live in a country where sororities don’t exist… but there still are levels of ‘popularity’, and I think they are pretty meaningless and superficial :))
 
As part of my political campaign locally, I got to speak to the local university’s Panhellenic Council and got to visit a couple of Sorority houses and meet privately with the President of the PHC.
 
This thread doesn’t seem to be about discerning a vocation at all. I think the OP has little if any understanding of religious life and is more interested in some subset of girls he probably has even less understanding of. If it is at all possible can the OP move this thread off of the vocations forum to somewhere more fitting; this forum is for the discussion of vocations rather than how to get a name with a group of women.
 
Funny, this thread was just recently moved TO this forum from, I believe, the Back Fence.
 
The only way to have a thread moved is by contacting the moderator.
 
mjs1987 said:
He should enjoy platonic friendship with women and have fun while he can because when he is married or in the priesthood the time for fun is over.
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I disagree; a priest can certainly have a platonic relationship with a lady. That is certainly not to say that I recommend a “spiritual marriage” in which you live like Gandhi(a bad idea). However, the issue of a party in a sorority(even a “respectable” one) does, I admit, suggest a little too much immaturity, in my opinion. Then again, I am an introvert who has never even touched a female outside of my family(other than, say, an infrequent handshake). I just daydream about women-a habit that I need to break.
 
Remember the saying, “nuns are married to Jesus,” would not that mean that priests and monks are wedded to Blessed Mary? Forgive me for the joke, but that is some serious truth within either.
 
Whether or not one intends to be a priest, why care about a girl’s popularity? You need to escape from the clique-like mindset of high school. In any case, if you are going to enter the Church, how can really be a “loser?”
 
I am thinking I will write a mystery story that involves a Sorority. I have been wanting to try my hand at a mystery and perhaps have a clergyman involved (I think I’ll use a Monsignor…after all, there have been a Fr. Brown and Dowling and Bishop “Blackie” Ryan). Think about it: the Monsignor matches wits with a murderous Sorority woman.

Perhaps the Monsignor is taking some graduate classes at a University and ends up tangled up in murder most foul. At first, as the Monsignor gets involved in the investigation, he has trouble because he feels inferior to the Sorority women and the antagonist is arrogant and looks and talks down to him…up until the bitter end when the Monsignor proves she’s a murderess (kind of like on shows like “Columbo” or “Monk” where the murderer is high-powered and thinks their sleuthing adversary is a loser until the sleuth drops the proverbial boom on them and the murderer realizes they’re finished).
 
nsper7 said:
I am thinking I will write a mystery story that involves a Sorority. I have been wanting to try my hand at a mystery and perhaps have a clergyman involved (I think I’ll use a Monsignor…after all, there have been a Fr. Brown and Dowling and Bishop “Blackie” Ryan). Think about it: the Monsignor matches wits with a murderous Sorority woman.

Perhaps the Monsignor is taking some graduate classes at a University and ends up tangled up in murder most foul. At first, as the Monsignor gets involved in the investigation, he has trouble because he feels inferior to the Sorority women and the antagonist is arrogant and looks and talks down to him…up until the bitter end when the Monsignor proves she’s a murderess (kind of like on shows like “Columbo” or “Monk” where the murderer is high-powered and thinks their sleuthing adversary is a loser until the sleuth drops the proverbial boom on them and the murderer realizes they’re finished).
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That would be interesting.
 
I moved this thread to this sub-forum believing that the OP was genuinely interested in the Franciscan way of life, based on what he said in the initial post. However, the discussion has taken another turn that has nothing to do with the topic of vocations.

Therefore, this thread is closed pending review by the forum moderator. Thank you for participating.

Sincerely,

Thomas Casey
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