Who in here are discerning the priesthood?

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jfallaw said:
Yeah, I’m taking a priestly vacation! Seriously, I have always felt called to serve God as a minister, but lately am really feeling called to marriage to my wonderful girlfriend. If I were protestant- no problem. Maybe the diaconate? I don’t know, I’m an uneducated Catholic. But How do married men serve as ministers in the Church?
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A deacon can be married and serve in the ministry
 
I’m about 65% sure that I’m supposed to join a religious order. I’m just praying that if the Lord is calling me, that he’s calling me to the Fransiscan T.O.R.s
 
I’m discerning a call to the priesthood. I hope to enter the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest 🙂
 
Wow, at the time of this post 76+% are considering the priestly vocation. I added to that percentage 🙂
 
I am married, and starting to discern the permanent Diaconate.

God Bless all of you discerning the Priesthood. My brother-in-law is a recently ordained Priest, and I am very excited by the young Priests I’ve met through him. Very orthodox and holy. We need more Priests like that.
 
It is very important for all of us to encourage those who are discerning the priesthood. I bet their are many men (esecially younger men) who are discerning the call but are afraid because they feel that they would be discriminated against.

This forum is a great place for anyone discerning the priesthood to come and make their voices heard.

IS THEIR ANYONE ON THIS FORUM WHO LIVES IN AUSTRALIA THAT IS THINKING ABOUT THE PRIESTHOOD???
 
I am currently in formation and will be recieving the habit and entering the Novitiate of the Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (also known as the Order of Carmelites).
 
I just graduated from Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary, and St. Joseph’s College Seminary at Loyola University is the next stop on my journey.

It’s the Diocesan Priesthood God’s calling me to; at least, at this point it sure seems so…🙂
 
Andy_K said:
I just graduated from Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary, and St. Joseph’s College Seminary at Loyola University is the next stop on my journey.

It’s the Diocesan Priesthood God’s calling me to; at least, at this point it sure seems so…🙂
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Good luck to you. Study hard:D Watch out for Deacon Payne (The Formationator).

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Discerning priesthood? Not me; I am a married woman (3 kids, 6 grandkids) whose husband will be ordained–God willing!–to the permanent diaconate. His discernment of a diaconal vocation and formation took place within his marital vocation. And because we are “two become one flesh” I was very much a part of both the discernment and the formation.

Many many thanks to all of you who are discerning God’s call to priesthood, religious life, and permanent diaconate. We in the pews desperately need good, holy men (and women!) to answer God’s call.

I have been privileged to meet some of the newer generation of priests (JPII, Eucharistic, Marian, and crazy sense of humor … check out YouTube “Seminary Formationator”). If you have any opportunity, attend a Mass of Ordination or one celebrating the taking of final vows by a religious. I have been to both; I felt I had entered into the heavenly realms!

May God lavishly bless you for responding to His gracious calling … whether as priest, brother, deacon, married or single!
 
vince2paul said:
I’m not sure whether the chance of me being accepted as I had a sinful and chaotic past.
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The past is the past. The question is, what have you learned from it? How have you grown as a Christian as a result of the wrongs of your past?

Do you have a better understanding of how easy it is to fall into sin?

Does it give you the desire to help others avoid falling away from the Lord as you did?

Do you long for the ability to dispense the Lord’s love and His Divine Mercy?

This is what you need to tell any diocese or order you apply to.

If a sinful past were a bar then the Church would have to get along without Saint Paul, (who persecuted the Church and was complicit in the murder of St. Stephen), St. Matthew, (who, as a tax collector was little more than a strong-arm thug), and Saint Augustine, (“Make me holy, Lord, but not yet”).
I believe with God nothing is impossible, so I’m just open to anything He wants me to do.
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That’s the number one prerequisite, IMHO.

**You have no right to let shame or guilt about your past deny the Lord a priest if that is what He has called you to be! **
 
vince2paul said:
Well, I’m thinking about dominican order and diocesan priesthood, but I think now it’s more towards diocesan priesthood. I’m not sure whether the chance of me being accepted as I had a sinful and chaotic past.

I believe with God nothing is impossible, so I’m just open to anything He wants me to do.
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You know Fr. John Corapi? He has had one of the most sinful and chaotic pasts you can imagine. Today he is one of the best priests in the US (as someone told me).
You know a guy named Saint Paul? He…
You know Saint Francis? 😃

For God nothing is impossible. Your bad past will make you more humble. The worst thing that can happen to you is this: see yourself as the author of what the good you do/will do. Now you can accept that all the good you do comes from God, because you are (as all of us) only a poor sinner! (Of course now you have to accept God’s grace and fight! :knight2: 🙂
 
I posted this the apologetics section but thought it was a better fit here.
I was born and raised a Catholic. Starting in college I lost my faith and fell from the Church and it’s teachings. In 2001 I was married to a born again christian by a Baptist minister. My wife was baptized Catholic as an infant but did receive the other sacraments.

When we got married I understood that my wife didn’t want to have children and I was ambivalent about kids myself.

My wife attended a nondenominational church throughout our marriage but I only went sporadically since my faith was lacking. My wife and our protestant friends prayed for me to find my faith. In December of 2006 I decided I wanted Jesus back in my life and recomitted my life to him. I started going to my wife’s Church, reading the Bible and praying. About 2 months ago I felt this calling from God to come back to the Catholic Church. I started going mass, went to confession, and started researching more about the Church’s teachings.

I told my wife that I was going back to the Catholic church and she was fine with that but stated she was not going to the Catholic church. My wife was previously married outside the Catholic church and divorced. I believe in all the teachings of the Church and would like to follow them

I’m very confused since my wife is a wonderful person and was instrumental in helping me find my faith after many years of being lost but I do want to follow the Church’s teachings.

What if the Church allows my wife and I to renew my vows in the Catholic church but my wife still refuses to have children or the teachings of the Church? I believe in the sacraments and it would be very hard to fulfill the vocation of marriage without kids(or at least trying since I know some can’t have children due to physical issues)

I ask these questions since I have his crazy calling to be a priest, Jesuit, or some order of the Church.

I can accept my marriage as a vocation but my wife sees no problem with our current situation. I love my wife and have been faithful to her and our marriage so my emotions concerning my life purpose is very unsettling.

Anyways it feels good to write down my thoughts and feeling even though there is no quick, easy solution. One thing I’m sure about is that my true home is Jesus and his Church

I will talk to my Parish priest about the next step as regards to my marriage and God’s plan for my life.
 
I am. Just trying to figure out what to do about my parents when they become feeble, since I’m an only child. There’s a post about this floating around the forum somewhere.
 
I am discerning a call to the priesthood… primarily to serve the Archdiocese of San Antonio as a secular priest, but also to the Dominicans and the Congregation of Holy Cross (on the heterodox side, I know, but several of the CSC’s here at Notre Dame have nourished my vocation — and, after all, their tide needs to be turned as much as any!).
 
JFlats said:
I have been privileged to meet some of the newer generation of priests (JPII, Eucharistic, Marian, and crazy sense of humor … check out YouTube “Seminary Formationator”). If you have any opportunity, attend a Mass of Ordination or one celebrating the taking of final vows by a religious. I have been to both; I felt I had entered into the heavenly realms!
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I totally agree. If you are in discernment, go to an Ordination Mass.

Anecdotally, the first (and so far, only) Ordination that I have been to was on the day that JPII died. Just after the height of the ritual – the laying of hands – there was a brief moment for silent prayer. At that moment, a server delivered a note to the seated bishop, informing him that Pope John Paul II had passed into the Father’s hands just moments ago. As he tearfully related this to the congregation, there was the overwhelming sense that the Holy Spirit was at work and had descended on us all that moment – something beautiful in that just as our beloved JPII, the consummate model of priesthood, had ended a life of suffering servitude to the Church, two more young men were rising to take his place. I will never forget the precise details of that moment and the flood of emotion that I felt, and it has left an indelible mark on my own journey of discernment.
 
SemperTotusTuus said:
You know Fr. John Corapi? He has had one of the most sinful and chaotic pasts you can imagine. Today he is one of the best priests in the US (as someone told me).
You know a guy named Saint Paul? He…
You know Saint Francis? 😃

For God nothing is impossible. Your bad past will make you more humble. The worst thing that can happen to you is this: see yourself as the author of what the good you do/will do. Now you can accept that all the good you do comes from God, because you are (as all of us) only a poor sinner! (Of course now you have to accept God’s grace and fight! :knight2: 🙂
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Thanks! Well, I’m glad that my given name was Paul (even though I wasn’t even Catholic then), when I was 7, I chose him to be my patron saint for my baptism (could it be He chose me? 😃 ).
I could relate so easily with him.

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if you are reading it now, please pray for me, I have exam tomorrow (Thursday) and I’m not ready. Thanks! 🙂
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