Posted on 03/12/2009 6:09:59 AM PDT by NYer
From what I’ve read “The few, The proud, The seminarians.” :~)
You don’t need to be married to have sex. Haven’t you been following church news for the last 15 years?
Excellent post! If more married people recognized that *marriage* was their vocation, and that everything else they did was subsidiary, in support of the vocation, there would be fewer divorces, more children ... and more priests, too!
Ya just gotta be today. Talk about a career looked down upon in the secular world. Its almost as bad as choosing to be a stay at home mom ;)
Not for nothing, I can’t tell you how many people told him to wait, he will grow out of it, and why does he want to be a priest.
He has wanted this since he was 8 years old. He is now 17. Still wants it more than life itself. Oh, he has his days, but God always lets him know he has been chosen. There have been many many things that have happened over the years, but one that sticks out in his mind was the following:
He was in school and there was a substitute in the class so they weren’t doing much. A couple of kids they never talked to because they were “goth” kids came over and they were all chatting. These were hardcore goth kids, vampire types, with all the trimmings.The goth kid decided to guess what each of the kids would be when they grew up. He went around from kid to kid and said things like lawyer, doctor, garbage man, etc, til he got to my son. He looked him straight in the eye and said you will be a priest. Ya could have knocked my son over with a feather LOL. There have been dozens of incidents like this, and they always seem to happen when he doubts himself.
He goes for a retreat tomorrow, one of his final for discernment before entering the seminary. I gave him to God when he was born; I guess He decided to take him :)
Excellent answers!
Thank you tax-chick. I also believe that if more would realize their vocation, and lived it, there would be more priests.
Our fidelity to our vocation is sending one to seminary next year :)
I saw that in your previous post. Excellent efforts, and best wishes to your son. One of my boys is interested in priesthood, but also wants to have ten children (and a prime-time herpetology show on “Animal Planet” ;-). I mentioned that women who have both the gumption and the stamina to produce ten children, and also like snakes, are pretty rare, and he said, “Well, there’s you!”
But anyway, Tom is only 12, and I’m sure God will provide more guidance when it becomes necessary. The education he’ll need to get a biology scholarship will also be useful if he decides to enter the seminary!
excellent. It is really up to God to call, He just uses us to guide. All the best to you and your brood, in whatever endeavors they choose to take to make our world a more sane place :)
I would have loved to have had more than 3, “plumbing” problems played havoc there....
And your son is correct. I would not have been able to handle the snakes, although we did have lab rats as pets LOL.
He’s been asking for a rat, too ...
I once imagined having a normal life, but what would be fun about that!
they make excellent pets! Just don’t feed it to the snake LOL.
You do have a normal life, for you. It ends much to quickly so cherish every moment,as I am sure you know and do from the sounds of it! My youngest is 16 this year and my oldest is getting married in Jan..... Cheers!
cool news about your son.
i’m heading in a similar direction :-D
I guess it’s like being an artist/ musician — It’s not what you do; It’s what you are.
Thank you for explaining those erroneous thoughts. I attend a parish in AZ and we have an Irish monsignor, a Philippino priest and an Indian (from India)priest. Priests are to be found.
May the Good Lord put his blessings upon you, and speak to your heart in the language only you can understand, that you will be called to the most holy of orders, a servant of the servants of God.
May you be richly blessed in your vocation and steadfast in your faithfulness. If you are a poster on FR, I imagine you know we are starving for loyal priests.....
Um, not quite sure about that one, although, my seminarian son is quite a musician (trombone, guitar,) and he might agree with you :)
why open that can of worms again?
“There is no place in this country it would seem for MY viewpoint to be accepted.”
In any case, we must be the faithful remnant.
Remember, some of the good seed fell on fertile soil and grew but was then choked by weeds. Don’t let the weeds get to you. Some of the seed was also carried away by birds. Don’t let the bird-brains get to you, either!
Stay spiritually, emotionally, and physically healthy yourself and let God take care of the rest. He predicted many would fall away. Some will return to Him in a crisis. And remember to fight the good fight, like St. Paul said. Mary once said that many people praying the rosary would prevent Russia from spreading her errors. Maybe it’s time to organize spiritual warfare and more prayer groups for America to return to God.
At the risk of stringing in yet one more platitude: all God asks of each of us is to be faithful. It was peaceful and easy to be a Christian in the 40s and 50s; but we have the joy of holding fast in difficult times.
One of my favorite priests once told me I didn’t need to worry so much— God is still in charge.
God bless you for your zeal. :)
No, you just have to be a school teacher it seems.......
sex is a snare? Where in the Bible does it say that...
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