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Filius99993 said:
It’s difficult to do that anyway whenever he is asking to get past the subject of Jesuits. How can anybody possibly ignore the Jesuits!!!???😛
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Like this…

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See? Completely ignored. What were we talking about again?😃
 
LOL, well that went straight to the sore spot. I decided to bring that to an end because we both have a lot going on in our lives and we didn’t spend time together much anyways. on the note of our discernments, she decided against the religious life because she thinks she can help more people as a mother and I’m still chugging a long looking towards becoming a priest and I still feel pretty confidently that this is where I am being called. Anyways, I’m actually looking at more than the Jesuits for religious orders in case you thought I was all Loyola-d out already 😃
 
Tomorrow I’m headed down to Mundelein for a retreat.

Details later;)
 
Tim_Kirchoff said:
Tomorrow I’m headed down to Mundelein for a retreat.

Details later;)
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Mundelein is north of Chicago - you should be heading “up” there. Sheesh, don’t the Dominicans teach you kids Geography? 😉

Try to get someone to tell you all “ghost stories” of paranormal and unusual events related to the place - then see if you can sleep overnight thinking about them. At least that’s what we did on our senior year discernment retreat up there.

I still remember the conversation coming out of the retreat center chapel as terrified young seminarians asked:

“Father, can’t we share rooms?”

“No, you’ll stay where you have been assigned. No room sharing unless you have a room with two beds and someone has been assigned to stay there with you.”

“But Father, what if someone comes scratching at my window?”

“No one is going to scratch at your window. I was here for six years and it never happened to me.”

“It happened before and it might happen again tonight now that we are here!”

“Just go to your rooms as assigned!”

All this after sitting up singing songs at the piano with Fr. Daley following midnight prayer. And, earlier that evening, you would have never seen so many city boys with their heads craned to the sky in wonderment at actually seeing stars. Yes, twas good (even if trying) times.

(Hope to see you and your brothers at the Quigley Mass in a couple of weeks.)
 
If most of us do become priest, how will we all deal with this problem:

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=241351&page=6

It makes me very worried about our Mother Church. I’m all for the NO, but I do prefer that we stick to the traditons of the saints and stop trying to bend our church to save time at mass and to escape protestant persecution. But then again I’m not a trditionalist who likes to jump on people’s cases when they prefer the NO. It worries me. 😦 :hmmm:
 
Don’t worry about it. Just remember that HMC has allowed for variation in the church. There is variation in rites. The EF of the Mass was still allowed with indult and now will be allowed without indult. The key is to know what the church says and what it doesn’t say about allowed variations in Mass.

Many people on here read documents, personal writtings of Bishops/Cardinals, etc. and based on just that think they know better then the priests/bishops. It is just their own interpretation of rules and the wishes of those people. It is one thing to do something in a Mass that people may not like but is still allowed by HMC, it is something totally different to add your own innovations.

Don’t get caught up in the infighting. Remember what we are all called to do. Worship God in union with his church. If you are truely called to become a priest details like this won’t matter until you become a priest and then you will have your training and other priests to fall back on.
 
Marauder said:
Don’t worry about it. Just remember that HMC has allowed for variation in the church. There is variation in rites. The EF of the Mass was still allowed with indult and now will be allowed without indult. The key is to know what the church says and what it doesn’t say about allowed variations in Mass.

Many people on here read documents, personal writtings of Bishops/Cardinals, etc. and based on just that think they know better then the priests/bishops. It is just their own interpretation of rules and the wishes of those people. It is one thing to do something in a Mass that people may not like but is still allowed by HMC, it is something totally different to add your own innovations.

Don’t get caught up in the infighting. Remember what we are all called to do. Worship God in union with his church. If you are truely called to become a priest details like this won’t matter until you become a priest and then you will have your training and other priests to fall back on.
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Thank you!
 
Hi y’all, a little introduction (as per request…what, 27 pages ago? ;)) I’m 23 years old, discerning the diocesan priesthood for either the diocese of St. Catharines, London, or archdiocese of Ottawa. Peace!
 
Spirithound said:
Hi y’all, a little introduction (as per request…what, 27 pages ago? ;)) I’m 23 years old, discerning the diocesan priesthood for either the diocese of St. Catharines, London, or archdiocese of Ottawa. Peace!
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Are you British or Canadian?
 
Hey everyone. I am 17 (soon to be 18) and I am entering my senior year of high school. I am discerning a vocation to either FSSP or the Legion of Christ. Facing some resistance from the parents, which is really difficult for me. My mom won’t even let me talk to her about my vocation (she says if I become a priest then I had might as well kill her). Personally I would like to enter right out of high school. Please pray for my parents and myself. Any suggestions as to how to approach my parents would be greatly appreciated. Schnitz
 
I personally want to thank all of you for actively discerning your vocations to the priesthood. We need many holy and well educated priests You will all most sincerely be held up in my and my wife’s daily prayers. Please also keep us also in yours. Again, I profoundly thank all of you for answering the call.
Prayers & blessings
Deacon Ed B
 
onetruechurch said:
JesuitLoyola,

I love the Jesuits! They just happen to teach at universities that are becoming liberal. A book recently came out naming only 20 colleges that are following all the teachings of the church. None of them were Jesuit.
I am hoping and praying that you follow your dream to become a Jesuit. By the time you are a priest the Jesuit colleges may again be like they were back in the “glory days”…and that was wonderful!
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…do you how many of those colleges had any sort of accreditation or national standing at all?
 
onetruechurch said:
You sound like a possible candidate for the Legionaries of Christ www.legionariesofchrist.org
I loved the Jesuits back in their “glory days” and received a great Jesuit education. Presently, I am attending the monthly evenings of recollection put on at the new university in Sacramento run by the Legionaries of Christ. I am very impressed with their level of education and their conservatism! I also attend the Regnum Christi annual retreats put on by Legionaries of Christ priests. These silent retreats are similar to the Jesuit retreats of the past. (Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola Retreats) Starting at 6:00pm Saturday evening was a 12 hour Eucharistic Adoration and I had to get up in the middle of the night to take my turn. Whenever the priest would enter or leave the retreat lecture room we all would stand. As I mentioned above, the order is very orthodox (conservative) but the level of teaching and education is comparable to that of the Jesuits.
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The founder of the Legionaries was accused by nine men formerly in his congregation of being a pedophile, and he retired under a cloud. He was investigated by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger when he was head of the Congregationof the doctrine of the Faith (formerly the Holy Office) and finally ordered to retire by the same cardinal as Pope Benedict XVI, and asked to conduct “a reserved life of prayer and penance, renouncing every public ministry,” I feel that in view of the Vatican’s actions towards him, that there must have been some basis to the charges.

I, for one, would be reluctant for my son or a friend to join this order in view of this history.
 
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