Feel free to discuss this with others, and your local Priest. All those discussions, and prayers before the Blessed Sacrament will help you to descern your calling in the faith.Which are?
Not at all. I know a priest who was call to the priesthood before he actually converted to Catholicism. He has been a wonderful priest now for close to 30 yrs! Maybe God called you to Catholicism for the very same reason! Get a Spiritual Director and speak with him.
Single life, Married life, Religious life (monks, nuns, etc), Sacerdotal (priests, etc)
I work with RCIA in my parish. I haven’t had any men thinking about the priesthood but I did have a woman interested in the religious life. As RCIA went on she felt more and more of an attraction to the Poor Clares. Even though she couldn’t receive communion, she attended daily Mass at their monastery and got to know them.
That’s great! But F.Y.I. they require a lot of theology school and some Catholic seminaries teach their own version of the faith instead of the Catholic one. The usual problems to watch out for include teachers saying the Eucharist is not the body and blood of Christ but a symbol of unity, in the sacrament of confession the priest doesn’t have the power to absolve from sins, and the rosary is not to be prayed.
Those are some pretty big allegations, painted with a very wide brush.
Don’t know where you live Aleksander, but here is a link to the Program of Priestly Formation that was developed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. I encourage any one considering a vocation to the priesthood in the US to read it.
Thank you for your link and your well wishes.Don’t know where you live Aleksander, but here is a link to the Program of Priestly Formation that was developed by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. I encourage any one considering a vocation to the priesthood in the US to read it.
Peace be with you on your journey!
Holy Orders (Priesthood or permanent Diaconate)
Aleksander:Single life, Married life, Religious life (monks, nuns, etc), Sacerdotal (priests, etc)
As for the original question…
It’s not at all unusual for men who are in the process of conversion to feel the call to become priests. Many converts have gone on to become excellent priests - not least of which, the Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman.
But you will need to wait a couple of years from your reception into the Church before you will be permitted to enter priestly training - this is just a normal precautionary pragmatic approach from the Church, which would want to be sure you weren’t simply caught up in the process of conversion and mistaking that euphoric experience for a deeper calling… After all, it wouldn’t do you or the Church any good if you launched headlong into expensive seminary training only to realise you’d taken the wrong decision a couple of years later.
Don’t get discouraged though - it would most likely take at least a year between beginning one’s application process to actually starting at a seminary, so the two years isn’t really so long to wait - give it 6 months to a year to get used to your place in the Church, use the time to get to love the rhythm of the liturgy and experience all the Church has to offer, make yourself available in service to the Church as a lector or altar server or Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion or visitor to the sick or any number of other ways to serve the people of God… The time will fly by!