I would post this in the pit, but it really doesn’t anger me. Kind of saddens me and makes me laugh, though
I’d also post it in MPSOPS (Mundane Pointless Stuff Other People Say), but sadly that doesn’t exist.
I’ve thought about the Roman Catholic Priesthood since I was in fourth grade, but I never really told my friends. I’m a little double-sided. So much so that I have been to church with a hangover on more than one occasion. But I’m about to begin the application process for the seminary and I decided it would be a good idea to tell people what my plans are.
The responses I’ve gotten are mostly those of support. There are, however, those people who can’t understand why someone would do that. I’ve heard someone sayat least thrice, “You know you can’t have sex.”
Oh, really? Damn…I thought that there would be orgies after morning prayer! I thought they hired strippers every other week! Yeah…
Oh well, nothing is worth anything if it’s not worth a challenge.
Good luck to you. I know this isn’t a decision one makes lightly. And I hear strippers are overrated!
My dad entered a Jesuit seminary when he was 19 or so - as the only son, it was expected of him. It took all of a month for him to decide that he didn’t have a vocation - lucky for me! It’s kind of funny to look at the old photos of him in his collar. Even funnier to me is that after leaving the seminary, he joined the Marines!
Ya know, you can’t get married either.
(I’m just kidding - I went through a process of discernment because I thought I had a vocation to the convent - the Benedictines, in fact).
I learned that I don’t, and that’s ok with me as well. Best of luck to you - it’s a hard road. If you find that it’s what you are supposed to do, then do it to the best of your ability. If you learn that it’s not where you are meant to do, then find whatever it is that God wants you to do to serve him.
He said that he’s going into the Roman Catholic priesthood - Catholic priests cannot wed. If you’re asking why he doesn’t just enter into the clergy in another Christian denomination… I’ll leave that to him to answer.
