Last days before starting seminary

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Hi,

Sorry for bothering you all. These are my last days before entering seminary and I’m trying to patch things up with my life. Honestly, I’m scared since I am not good with household chores and in listening and remembering (reading and writing fairly decent). I’m what society calls an introvert and a mama’s boy. It’s a missionary kind of seminary I got into. Also, I’m trying to pay all my loans and cancel my credit card but I’m experiencing administrative walls. I have the money to pay but getting it in is hard with the pandemic. It’s also 3 years more or less since my last confession. I have trouble squeezing one in during the pandemic. Please pray for me again. I promise to do my best and let my desire to serve God overcome my fears and weaknesses.

P.S. If you knew any saints who struggled with seminary life because of similar limits, please tell me so I can draw inspiration from them. 🙂
 
Praying for you (was that 3 years or 3 months since confession? Can you make an appointment for confession with a priest ?)God bless.
 
The pandemic has really messed up my diocese. Would it be ok if I do it with whoever my spiritual director will be?
 
uriel9286 said:
The pandemic has really messed up my diocese. Would it be ok if I do it with whoever my spiritual director will be?
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Of course. You don’t need to confess to a specific priest.

How old are you?
 
You’ll be fine. Be patient and try not to over think things. There’s nothing wrong with being an introvert or a “mama’s boy”. Listening and remembering will improve with time and practice. It’s wonderful you have been accepted into a seminary! I hope to one day be considered for the Permanent Diaconate.

(My last confession was a couple of months ago, whispered in the corner of the church while the cleaners were rushing around).
 
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There’s nothing wrong with being an introvert or a “mama’s boy”.
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Well…yes and no. It’s fine to be naturally a quieter person. It’s not fine to be an adult who expects to be coddled and have everything done for him. If OP is still expecting mom to make his bed and do his laundry, he needs to move past that.
 
I’m older than 30 but under 35. I wish I stayed in the military longer. That would have toughened me up. Sigh.
 
Your message brings joy to my heart! None are worthy. I was going to say St John Vianney but @(name removed by moderator) said it first! Let the Holy Spirit guide you! You are in my prayers! 🙏🙏🙏
 
uriel9286 said:
I’m older than 30 but under 35. I wish I stayed in the military longer. That would have toughened me up. Sigh.
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You’ll be alright, I’m sure. How long were you in the military? If you can handle boot camp, I don’t think anything in seminary is going to rattle you. When you said “mamas boy” I was picturing an 18 year old who had never lived on their own.
 
I didn’t last a day in “boot camp”. I just finished a watered-down version of ROTC. Thanks for the encouragement. 🙂
 
Try not to worry about being quiet… God knows you better than you know yourself. It’s you he called not the picture of what you want yourself to be or who you think you should be…just you as you are…now. That’s who he wants.

All types of people are needed in all ways. Pray to St Oscar Romero to he was a quiet studious man who preferred his books…til he wasn’t and he became the peoples voice.
 
I did a (very) brief stint as a reservist. It did jigger my back but I would do it all again in instant if I could (except maybe for rifle drill with bayonet attached, the SA80 is too short a rifle to be waving in front of your face with a bayonet attached).
 
Welcome to a world like no other - a crazy cross between a frat house, an exclusive cult, and Catholic Hogwarts complete with people from almost every walk of life imaginable thrown together in a reality tv show kind of way each having their own set of issues, advantages, skills and challenges!

The most important thing you can do for yourself right now is to breathe! Entering the seminary can seem like your either embarking on some sort of heroic epic or entering a doomsday bunker with all the stress and last minute desperation that you might expect from either option. Believe it or not you’re not expected to have your entire life (physical and spiritual) sorted from the start - if anything, given the purpose of seminary is formation (which can require a certain amount of preliminary deconstruction) the opposite is true. Of course, it’s easy to take that too far (and sadly seminaries have in the past) but still the sooner you accept that you don’t have it all together and that’s okay the easier it becomes!

The simple reality is that you’ll almost certainly not be the only one whose cooking skills don’t extend beyond instant noodles, or need a few (or more than a few) reminders about vacuuming. If you feel called to a missionary vocation then being out of your comfort zone can only be a good thing and learning to be self-sufficient even more so.
 
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