Would this prevent me from becoming a priest?

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Greetings,

I’m 17 and a half years old and I’ve been discerning my vocation for over two years now and I’m quite sure I’m called to the priesthood.

However, I commited homoseual acts even though, now I don’t possess homosexuial tendencies.

I was 13 years old and I wasn’t very religous and my friend and I were exploring our sexuality. We commited these acts for self pleasure 3 times over a course of 4 months even though we didnt posses the homosexual tendency

After that, I guess I was sort of corrupted by that and I started looking at homosexual porn for self pleasure.

When I came back to the faith, I repented and refrained from all these sinful things and then I started to realise that I didn’t have a homosexual tendency but I only did those acts for self pleasure and that I was still young at the time.

Will I still be accepted into the priesthood even though I commited those acts but I have repentented and I know that I do not have the homosexual inclination

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Hi,

You were young and experimenting–not an unusual thing. I don’t expect that such personal history will prevent you from studying for the priesthood. You are in our prayers.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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