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Thank you all for your prayers and support! I have been accepted by my diocese’s Bishop and the seminary where my application has been sent to. Please continue to pray for me and my discernment; I will be going to the seminary this August 15.

This Monday, Feast Day of St. Peter & Paul! – I’ll resign my favorite job; I guess it is a great day to give up my job and I will have a week or two to visit my family.

God is Love!
 
Congratulations withwind! I most certainly will continue to pray. What a wonderful journey you have in front of you. I crave to learn what you will have the privilege of learning in these upcoming years. Do cherish it.

God Bless!!

Teresa Ann
 
Congratulations, withwind! It is such an honor to serve the Lord in this capacity. Please keep us posted on your journey!

God bless. 🙂
 
*Congratulations withwind,
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         I shall be praying for you while you continue your journey. Please keep us posted in the meanwhile on the many things you are experiencing. I am sure they will help others on the journey too.
       
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*Congratulations withwind,
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         I shall be praying for you while you continue your journey. Please keep us posted in the meanwhile on the many things you are experiencing. I am sure they will help others on the journey too.
       
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Thank you for continuing pray for me. I’ll keep in touch.
 
May God bless you in your discernment! What a wonderful new life you have in front of you, so filled with grace and a closeness to God.

I will be praying a chaplet of Divine Mercy for a priest who is celebrating 60 years in the priesthood - I will offer it for you as well, it only seems right to combine the intentions.

😃

(what is your first name if you don’t mine me asking, so I can pray for you?)

~Liza
 
lizaanne said:
May God bless you in your discernment! What a wonderful new life you have in front of you, so filled with grace and a closeness to God.

I will be praying a chaplet of Divine Mercy for a priest who is celebrating 60 years in the priesthood - I will offer it for you as well, it only seems right to combine the intentions.

😃

(what is your first name if you don’t mine me asking, so I can pray for you?)

~Liza
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Thank you, Liza, for praying for the priest and me. My name is Hai. It sounds like “hi”, and people have fun calling me “Hi, Hai”. 😃 It is a Vietnamese name, and it means “Ocean” in English.
 
withwind said:
Thank you, Liza, for praying for the priest and me. My name is Hai. It sounds like “hi”, and people have fun calling me “Hi, Hai”. 😃 It is a Vietnamese name, and it means “Ocean” in English.
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That is a lovely name! Thank you Hai! 😃

~Liza
 
Congratulations! I will keep you in my prayers!

JMJ+
~Betsy

Totus tuus Maria!
 
Congratulations, Hai! I too will hold you in prayer. I have a list of seminarians in my place in chapel where I can see it each time we pray. I will add your name to the list.
Sister Judith Ann
 
CONGRATULATIONS!

I’ll be praying for you and put your name in my little boat. I have a hollow boat that I call “The Ark of Peter” I put my prayer intentions in there. I keep it in my cell. When I pray I remember all those intentions. I figure the Lord knows how to read. LOL

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
Sr_Judith_Ann said:
Congratulations, Hai! I too will hold you in prayer. I have a list of seminarians in my place in chapel where I can see it each time we pray. I will add your name to the list.
Sister Judith Ann
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JReducation said:
CONGRATULATIONS!

I’ll be praying for you and put your name in my little boat. I have a hollow boat that I call “The Ark of Peter” I put my prayer intentions in there. I keep it in my cell. When I pray I remember all those intentions. I figure the Lord knows how to read. LOL

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
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Thank you, Sister Judith Ann and Brother JR, for your prayers. I am very thankful knowing that there are always people praying for me and many other seminarians. God bless you.
By the way, my last name is “Nguyen”. 🙂 That is the most common name for Vietnamese.

Br. JR, I think He’s caught up with you on the technology. 🙂
 
withwind said:
Thank you, Sister Judith Ann and Brother JR, for your prayers. I am very thankful knowing that there are always people praying for me and many other seminarians. God bless you.
By the way, my last name is “Nguyen”. 🙂 That is the most common name for Vietnamese.

**Br. JR, I think He’s caught up with you on the technology. **🙂
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:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Does that mean that I should send my prayers via e-mail? :confused:

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
JReducation said:
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Does that mean that I should send my prayers via e-mail? :confused:

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
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I would ask you to send the prayers via your heart. He’ll take your answer slower via email due to spam filter. j/k. 😃
 
withwind said:
I would ask you to send the prayers via your heart. He’ll take your answer slower via email due to spam filter. j/k. 😃
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That was good. I believe that you will be a good priest, not a failure. I can already see the first requirement of a good priest, a sense of humor.

Whether we are religious or priests, if we retain the abilityt to laugh and to play, even within the spirtual realm, we can overcome the difficult times. I believe that people like Francis of Assis and Teresa of Avila reached such heights because of their joy.

Francis has a flair for the dramatic and the jocular. To use his own words, he enjoyed being the court jester or the fool in the King’s court.

Teresa had a biting kind of humor with a pinch of reverence. I will never forget her feedback to the Lord, “If this is how you treat your friends, its little wonder that you have so few.”

Even Jesus had a sense of humor. How often those of us who live in a world where there are no sheep fail to realize that he called us stupid. “I am the Good Shepherd” He sort of slips in there that we’re not too bright.

The men who often fail in the seminary or the religious novitiate are those who have no sense of humor and who fail to remember that the sublime does not always follow human conventions. When God takes them by surprise, they don’t know what to do. The best thing to do is to laugh and then have a good talk with the Lord. That kind of pesonality and relationship is destined for success.

Fraternally,

Br. JR, OSF 🙂
 
Thank you, Br. JR, for your support and advice. I am still working on my shyness which keeps my tongue tied up sometimes in front of people. 🙂 I think I might have started to identify what causes this shyness and pray about it.

“Laugh and have a good talk with the Lord” - I will try to keep this in mind and heart. 🙂 Thanks Br. JR.
 
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