Updates from a Seminarian

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Every Monday afternoon several ladies come to my home to pray the Scriptural Rosary, special prayers for priests, the Litany of our Blessed Mother, other prayers, and including a quiet time of about five minutes while a sacred song is played on a CD. This lasts for an hour, and then we have a social time of about one half- hour.

This has been going on for almost twenty years.
 
Maximilian75 said:
I’ve said this and they still want me to go to college.
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I couldn’t find whether any one had raised this but will you have debt after going to college?

If so, are your parents and you aware that some orders and diocese in the US prefer debt free candidates? There are organisations that help you fundraise with private donors to pay off college debt.
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Can a person have any debt if they intend to become a priest? Vocations
Just wondering because I have a lot of student loan debt and another decent sized debt. I’m a teacher in a Catholic school and i’m wondering if I should even consider talking to either of the diocese’s i’m interested in (I just moved to a new diocese and am thinking of looking there as well as my former diocese where I lived until a few months ago)
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https://labouresociety.org/ helps those considering religious life with their debt.
 
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Thank you, everyone, for your prayers and keeping this thread active. The past few days have been very hectic. If you have sent something to me, and I haven’t gotten back to you yet, please forgive me; I will get to you when I’m able.
 
Thank you for the replies. If you haven’t yet figured it out, I have begun seminary. The preceding period of time was also very busy for an entirely different reason, so I haven’t really been on the CAF for probably about a month.

Seminary so far has basically been what I expected it to be. My fellow seminarians and I are already truly brothers. Daily Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours, and more prayer; classes, recreation, meals, etc. I haven’t been bored much at all, except a few times when my brothers were learning something that I already knew. (It’s always good to review, though, and I’m sure that feeling will be reciprocated later on.) I have been kept busy, and we’re still winding up.

Thank you for all your prayers. Please continue to keep the clergy, all other seminarians, and myself, in your prayers. You all are also in mine.
 
You know if the Catholic Church and her priest were not such a powerful force for good, the devil would not attack.
 
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Now that’s awesome and refreshing to see after all the scandals.
 
We need to double down on prayer, especially us men. Men doing hideous things has lead us to where we are. Men praying and fasting can lead us to Christ. We need all our women to help us, also.
 
I appreciate that you are willing to post to keep this thread open, but you have posted SO much, that I have completely quit looking at it, and I’m afraid I’ll lose track of the original poster. I know you have good intentions, but if you could scale back to one post per week, it will make it much more obvious when the original poster returns to give us updates.
 
Well said @(name removed by moderator). I find your posts very uplifting just for myself and I am in no way looking for a vocation.
 
JHFamily said:
I appreciate that you are willing to post to keep this thread open, but you have posted SO much, that I have completely quit looking at it, and I’m afraid I’ll lose track of the original poster. I know you have good intentions, but if you could scale back to one post per week, it will make it much more obvious when the original poster returns to give us updates.
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I have the same issue as you do. I also tend to ignore this thread when it pops up.

From “desktop mode” you can go to the first post and click on his name. You can then view only his posts to see if he has responded.

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This made me smile. 😊

Remembering my younger siblings and me, in the kitchen, flattening down slices of bread before cutting them into neat, white “hosts.” Then we marched down to a corner of the basement where we had set up our “altar.” In solemn Latin, we conducted our “mass.”

Later, we played storekeeper, train conductor, teacher, hairdresser, etc. Kids play what they see.
 
I ran into this testimonial:
Father Toups: A vocation Story
May God bless and guide us.
Amen.

 

From the article:
What is interesting about my story is that I was not raised Catholic. My Dad was raised in the United Church of Christ and my Mother was raised as a Baptist. When they married in 1959, they decided that organized religion was not for them…
My dream, ever since I was a little boy, was always to be a Major League baseball player. After attending a public grade school, my parents told me that I could choose between the two Catholic high schools in the area because of their good education and good baseball programs…
Then one day I was at a Mass with only about 20 people present. We were all gathered around the altar during the Eucharistic prayer. And instead of going to the priest for Communion, he began to come to each person and said, “The Body of Christ” as he placed the Eucharist on the tongue. As I opened my mouth to say, “I’m not Catholic,” the priest placed the Eucharist on my tongue before I could get the words out.

At that moment I felt the most powerful presence of Jesus in my body that I had ever felt until that point. I remember thinking, “Now I understand what they have been trying to teach me.” …
If someone offered me a $10 million contract today to play major league baseball and give up the priesthood, I would not do it. There is no price tag I could place on the peace and joy I feel in my heart being a priest for Jesus Christ.
 
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