There’s a thread here that has already posed certain questions similar to your own here: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=161308.
Talk with your vocation director.
good point: up:
Do you think God wants you to become a priest before you’re mature enough to be a good one? I read lots on blogs, etc about teenagers wanting to be a priest/religious RIGHT NOW, not seeming to recognize that patience and fortitude are virtues that take many years to cultivate (by definition!) I see websites of people (not you, of course, but there seem to be a number of young adults and teenagers like this…) who want others to pay their school debts so they can enter various houses of formation, but I think there is merit in patiently waiting, earning one’s way, following rules, allowing God and experiences to form someone into a man or woman who CAN serve us well. Perhaps minor seminaries made sense when the population was illiterate, and life expectancy was 40 or so; then, someone who entered a high school seminary at 15 or 16 was an adult seeking advanced education. Now, if you can’t write a grammatically correct sentence, quite a few people will think you don’t know what you’re talking about!
Just pick out the stuff that applies to you. I am counseling my son with similar words, FWIWI am sorry to tell you, but that is the most tainted advice you can give a child.Do you think God wants you to become a priest before you’re mature enough to be a good one? I read lots on blogs, etc about teenagers wanting to be a priest/religious RIGHT NOW, not seeming to recognize that patience and fortitude are virtues that take many years to cultivate (by definition!) I see websites of people (not you, of course, but there seem to be a number of young adults and teenagers like this…) who want others to pay their school debts so they can enter various houses of formation, but I think there is merit in patiently waiting, earning one’s way, following rules, allowing God and experiences to form someone into a man or woman who CAN serve us well. Perhaps minor seminaries made sense when the population was illiterate, and life expectancy was 40 or so; then, someone who entered a high school seminary at 15 or 16 was an adult seeking advanced education. Now, if you can’t write a grammatically correct sentence, quite a few people will think you don’t know what you’re talking about!
Sorry, I seem to have answered a few other posts as well as yours
I think the Institute of the Incarnate Word minor seminary in Minnesota also takes minor seminarians under 18.
I am sorry to tell you, but that is the most tainted advice you can give a child.
You’re entering into dangerous territory here, if you’re referring to what I tell my minor son. You might want to check with the Catechism or the pope on whether it’s appropriate. Who are you? Have you any authority to tell me that’s the “most tainted advice” I can give a child?
In fact so many saints say that parents are the last people in the world to comment on religious vocations.
Err, like who? I’d really like to see your source here. Even if a saint did say that, it certainly wasn’t a pope speaking infallibly, that’s for sure.
Even families where all were saints hindered the child sometimes, because it is just nature.
Are you in a cult? I keep hearing stuff like this in regards to a cult I’ve been researching. There are even people who tell kids that “St. Clare disobeyed her parents”, without mentioning that St. Clare spoke directly to the pope! What do you mean by hindered? Don’t you think that this saint you’re referring to, learned obedience and humility?
I rather have a priest who is innocent therefore empty of himself and ready for the Holy Spirit than a doctor from the gregorian who is the devil’s poker buddy.
Are you implying that a good man would (metaphorically of course) become the devil’s poker buddy, just because he went to the Gregorian? Maybe you would benefit from some more education, too. Maybe some classes on the Catechism of the Catholic Church? I bet you can find some, since you live in Rome.
Listen kid, pray, pray and keep on praying.
But move. Look into those orders.
To the OP: Be in a hurry only if GOD wants you to be in a hurry. Don’t let anyone push you, or hold you back -unless it’s your parents, while you are still a minor!
That is not correct information, sorry to say. Being old has nothing to do with maturity. There are some 16 year olds who are brilliant and blessed with advanced maturity. Be careful about the advice you dish out. You may confuse someone and they might decide it’s an unrealistic desire that they are called to the priesthood, when really, it isn’t. Best to let God be God in this matter.Do you think God wants you to become a priest before you’re mature enough to be a good one? I read lots on blogs, etc about teenagers wanting to be a priest/religious RIGHT NOW, not seeming to recognize that patience and fortitude are virtues that take many years to cultivate (by definition!) I see websites of people (not you, of course, but there seem to be a number of young adults and teenagers like this…) who want others to pay their school debts so they can enter various houses of formation, but I think there is merit in patiently waiting, earning one’s way, following rules, allowing God and experiences to form someone into a man or woman who CAN serve us well. Perhaps minor seminaries made sense when the population was illiterate, and life expectancy was 40 or so; then, someone who entered a high school seminary at 15 or 16 was an adult seeking advanced education. Now, if you can’t write a grammatically correct sentence, quite a few people will think you don’t know what you’re talking about!
Sorry, I seem to have answered a few other posts as well as yours
