Searching for... priesthood

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I am sorry but I can’t provide this information. Some eyes from my hierarchy are visiting this forum too, and… I would be in a great difficulty since this kind of ‘search’ is not well seen here.
 
PriestVocation said:
I am sorry but I can’t provide this information. Some eyes from my hierarchy are visiting this forum too, and… I would be in a great difficulty since this kind of ‘search’ is not well seen here.
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:hmmm:Well now, a Catholic diocese that has too many priests, is in Europe, and frowns upon vocational searches? :hmmm:

There is not much help that we can provide you then.
 
ByzCath said:
:hmmm:Well now, a Catholic diocese that has too many priests, is in Europe, and frowns upon vocational searches? :hmmm:

There is not much help that we can provide you then.
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I know it is possible not to believe me, but… I know what I am writing here. 🙂 Unfortunatelly, that’s the reality here. If you want I can tell you more in an PM. But later on today, because I must go to Mass.

P.S. I am very fond of the Byzantine tradition and liturgy. As a fact today I am attending a Holy Byzantine Liturgy.
 
A bishop can not stop a vocational search. A person might feel called to religious life in a religious community/order, a bishop has no say in that.

You might wish to serve in a different diocese than you live in. While a bishop may have a residency requirement in place to accept vocations, no bishop can stop you form looking around.

You do not have to inform your bishop that you are doing a vocational search.

I am sorry, but there just seems to be a lot of fishy stuff in this thread.

We have provided advice, not much else we can do if you do not wish to follow it.
 
Ok, ok! It’s fishy.
Sorry for asking and for creating this thread, I won’t bother anymore.
I wanted to keep a low profile also. Also I never knew the fact that the bishop cannot stop someone from searching/investigating the posibility of ordination in another diocese. But as far as I know the one to be ordained must live in the diocese where he is ordinated, excepting the misionaries. But this is a canonical problem, it has nothing to do with the discussion.
If anyone wants to add something pls do… if not, pray for me!

May Lord God bless you all!
 
PriestVocation said:
Ok, ok! It’s fishy.
Sorry for asking and for creating this thread, I won’t bother anymore.
I wanted to keep a low profile also. Also I never knew the fact that the bishop cannot stop someone from searching/investigating the posibility of ordination in another diocese. But as far as I know the one to be ordained must live in the diocese where he is ordinated, excepting the misionaries. But this is a canonical problem, it has nothing to do with the discussion.
If anyone wants to add something pls do… if not, pray for me!

May Lord God bless you all!
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What is the purpose of the discussion?

If a bishop does not have a residency requirement for his candidates then you would start off at the major seminary under his authority and then when you are ordained you would be ordained in his diocese and work there.
 
I was just asking for advice and nothing else. And somehow… I was thinking about ‘applying’ to a vocation office somewhere around the world since the need for priests is obvious. And I thinking now of some religious communities, but I will think more before I take a decision.
 
Thank you all for your kind answers!
I won’t stop my “quest”, hoping that my call is needed somewhere in this world!

God bless you all!
 
ByzCath said:
Friars, which Franicisans and Carmelites are, are not technically monastics, as a benedictine is. We are properly called mendicants.

We are active in the world but live in community and pray in community. We do not live in a cloister.
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There are also much more active modern institutes of priests, such as the Oratorians, Jesuits, Salesians, and groups like the Inistitute of Christ the King, Legionaries of Christ, Fraternity of St Peter, who are very similar in their duties to a parish priest, but belong to a religious ‘family’ instead of a local diocese. If you don’t feel called to a monastic type of order, these might still be an option.
 
DL82 said:
There are also much more active modern institutes of priests, such as the Oratorians, Jesuits, Salesians, and groups like the Inistitute of Christ the King, Legionaries of Christ, Fraternity of St Peter, who are very similar in their duties to a parish priest, but belong to a religious ‘family’ instead of a local diocese. If you don’t feel called to a monastic type of order, these might still be an option.
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Yes, many of them are congregations or societies of secular priests who are under a superior rather than a diocesen bishop. They technically are not religious in the sense that they do not take the Evangelical Counsels (that is the Vows of Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience) but rather make Promises of Chastity and Obedience.

That is some of those in the list you give are like that. Others in your list, the only one I am sure of is hte Jesuits, are religious and take the Evangelical Counsels.
 
This thing about societies of secular priests sounds rather interesting 🙂
 
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