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Dear Forum!!

As you may/may not know, i feel called to the Priesthood/Religious Life. Me and a Vocations director have talked about this, and after talking about my vocation story with him, among other things, He came to the conclusion which i feel is right, that i am called to the Priesthood. Now, i have to start discerning whether or not i am called to Diocescan or Religious Priesthood. He says that i should discern with Religious Life first, as he feels that i am called there as well. I am currently looking to join the Knights of the Holy Eucharist. www.knightsoftheholyeucharist.com . I am 16, going on 17 this August the 3rd, and i will hopefully be allowed to enter right after i am done high school at 18, which will be in roughly a year and a month or so (at least thats my dream). Now, I love my Faith, etc., I had a Spiritual Director/Confessor, although he left :(, but now i am going to have a new one, at the other Parish we attend. I want to start my new life with JESUS now!, the call is strong, and i am sincere in my desires/apsiritations. I have plenty of forming still left, but regardless, i want to be a Priest. I dont want to be a Deacon, (as cool as that is), because i want to help people in the Sacrament of Reconcilitation and celebrating Holy MASS.

My question is, that i have one year to go before i can join and start my new life…

so what can i do?? Time is passing slowly i feel!!

next year will be my last year at high school

any recommendations!!

Please help!!
 
You work your hardest at school,for one thing, and for another, you could plan to learn useful skills. Skills that will be useful wherever you end up. Cooking, decorating (i.e. wallpapering), plumbing, driving, even gardening. At the monastery where I work, such skills are always being called upon. One of the oldest priests there even cooks the main meals when the housekeeper is not there - at weekends and Christmas for instance.

Use these practical skills to help at home, or if they are not needed there, then through the parish. There must be older parishioners who would welcome a hand with such work.

And something else : sport. You seem to be full of energy. Did you know that seminaries place a lot of emphasis on sport for a good reason? It worries me that you are on here firing off emails so much (well done, by the way, for losing the capital letters and yelling) because you should be out there doing something. If you are not involved with a team, how about starting something for the altar servers - five-a -side tournaments, for instance.

You have been given good health and energy for a reason. Use it.
 
Get your grades up and keep them up!

And I agree with the above poster.

Do healthy exercise, especially team sports (all ministry is very much a “team sport!”).

Volunteer, especially for things that you really would not like to do: eg., you might not like being around old people (being young and unused to old age) so go visit shut-ins.

Pray lots.
 
i like sports, in september i am planning to go out for tennis like i did last year, so tennis is a favorite, i also like to swim when i get the chance, Soccer -this is one my FAVORITE!! :D, biking, Working Out/Body building, so i am active, its just i like the forums, as i feel its the Catholic version of facebook (minus the stupidity of facebook)
 
visiting the shut-ins and helping homeless etc., is stuff i would love to do. If i had the time or chance. I am hoping that next year (this coming final school year) i can visit the Senior Home and do the red kettle drive again. I would LOVE to visit a Mission, to go and help the homeless, but, being in a rural community with a beginners drivers licensce etc., that isnt quite the strongest possibilty, maybe something that i will get the chance to do as a Friar!! Prayer is something i love to do, and i need more of it, Prayer is like MY drug. If i dont do it, if i dont get my “fix” by spending some time in prayer, then i dont feel good and i feel restless, cranky, irritated etc. As for courses this coming next year, i am SO looking forward to Philosophy (i find philosophy helps me in my Faith), apart from that i will have: mechanics, english, spanish, ancient history… wistfully, i wish i could have taken a gym class again (i had fitness back in grade 10), but i still am active outside of gym class, so gym class isnt a needed for me as i am active without it!!
 
That all sounds good!👍

You mention being a friar - what kind? What order are you looking at?
 
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