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Once I started praying the entire Rosary everyday and going to daily Mass, the desire for religious life became stronger and stronger. The third convent I visited was where I finally found rest! Through Mary, I believe that I have found what I was made for!
@@gabiafterhours ua-cam.com/video/yS94emRuVOY/v-deo.html And telling people that Mary is with them is basically saying Mary is Omnipresent and she is NOT. IT IS A FALSE DOCTRINE OF SATAN. You will answer to the souls you have all mislead and misleading.
@@afedumm Yes, I used to be a hardcore follower of the SSPX but I’ve since drifted because of finding out their status in relation to Rome. I pray and hope for them to be granted full canonical regularity, as I do believe they are extremely fruitful.
Next week I’m going to a retreat with the sisters. Please pray for me as I discern religious life with the Servants of the Cross and Salesian community. 🙏 Thank you this video really encouraged me to not give up on God’s calling. Jesus and Mary I surrender to your will. ✝️ ~Kiki “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” ~ St Catherine of Siena
Please pray for me, too. I learning to become organist and cooker and after ended schools called by God to become religiious brother in Camilians Order. Please pray for me, too. Thank You for Your prayers. God bless you. :) 😇🙏😇
Woo! May Our Lord and Our Lady and Saint Joseph bless and keep you, and guide you always! Thank you for being willing!! May God bless you with abundant Humility and Meekness of Heart, and many many Graces from His Most Sacred Heart-through Our Lady's Immaculate heart; Amen!
from book( To Save a Thousand Souls) Who Will You Bring With You Into Heaven? I once heard a priest tell his vocation story. I grew up in a very close, devout Catholic family with loving parents and we prayed together as a family every day. I attended a Catholic school with wonderful teaching Sisters and everything in my life revolved around the Church. I lived in a very Catholic culture. I was the number one altar server, the star student, and a leader in my class. Because of this, and the fact that I loved being around the parish, serving and helping out the priests, everyone would say the same thing, “You will be a priest when you grow up. Won’t you?” I heard this constantly from the other kids in my class, from the sisters who taught me, and from the two assistant priests, who were always visiting the classes and interacting with me around the church. But I never heard it from the pastor, which I appreciated. I got tired of people urging the priesthood on me, because I did not especially want to become a priest. I always wondered why the pastor, an elderly Monsignor, never asked me about priesthood as everyone else did, though he was always very kind to the altar servers. One day, as I was coming close to graduation from the parish school, I was assigned to serve the seven o’clock morning Mass and the elderly pastor was the celebrant. Only the two of us were in the sacristy and he vested in silence, mumbling the vesting prayers in Latin and preparing himself for Holy Mass. With just two minutes to go before the Mass began, the Monsignor suddenly turned and said, “John, what will you be doing when you grow up?” I thought to myself, “Oh boy, here it comes. Even from Monsignor.” But I replied, “Monsignor, I am still not certain but I am thinking about going into medicine. I would like to become a doctor.” And the pastor replied, “Good. Good. And what will you do after that?” I said, “Well, I suppose I will marry and have a family of my own.” The priest said, “Good, and what after that?” Not sure exactly where he was going with this line of questioning, I replied, “I guess I will grow old, practicing medicine, and eventually retire. And then I guess I will die and go to heaven.” The pastor nodded his head knowingly, thoughtfully, and he was quiet for a few seconds. Then he looked at me earnestly and said, “And who will you bring with you into heaven?” Immediately, he rang the sacristy bell and we walked out to begin the Mass. I thought to myself, “How clever you are, Monsignor. How clever you are.” I thought about that comment all during the Mass and many more times during my adolescent and young adult years. “And who will you bring with you into heaven?” It was asking myself that question repeatedly that really turned the tide and convinced me eventually that I should become a priest. Every vocation is about helping other people reach heaven. I tell this story not to minimize the greatness of the sacrament of marriage, because marriage serves the same purpose! I suppose the young man might have used the same comment made by the pastor to move him towards the vocation of marriage. But the story illustrates the critical point that a vocation is not primarily about self-fulfillment, but about being the instrument of God in saving others. “What will you do with your life? What are your plans? Have you ever thought of committing your existence totally to Christ? Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?” Pope John Paul II
@George Ortega read this book " To Save a Thousand of Souls " by fr Brett Brannen..God will guide you ..when you grow in wisdom path will be more clear
@George Ortega The Vocational Pre-Determination by God When I was a vocation director, I would visit the Catholic schools in my diocese to teach the children about vocations. I explained to them that before God had even created the world, he knew them and he loved them. He already knew your name, he knew every thought you would ever think, he knew how many hairs were on your head, he knew your sins, he knew your good deeds, and he even saw the moment of your death and your entrance into heaven. And God had already decided your vocation before he had even made the world! Or at least, he had already planned to which vocation you would be called. When it finally became time for you to be born, God created your soul to go inside your tiny body, and it was created specifically for that pre-determined vocation. I call this concept the vocational pre-determination by God, or vocational pre-destination. If God is calling you to marriage, then he prepared your soul and gave you the gifts of body and soul to live out the vocation of marriage. If God is calling you to priesthood, then your soul and body were made with that vocation in mind. This will be an important hint for you as you discern. Look at the gifts God has given to you and where those gifts are best used to build up the Kingdom.
@George Ortega From the book "To save thousands of souls " by fr Brett Brannen True freedom comes from sacrificing our own wants and desires to reach a greater good. Sometimes this means you cannot have everything you want. And there are some places you cannot go. But God made us for happiness and for greatness. And our happiness and greatness consist in discovering the plan of God for our life and then committing ourselves to this greater good, despite giving up some things. Remember that God does not need us. He is omnipotent. He is infinite in power and can build the Kingdom of God without our help. However, because he loves us, he wants us to have the privilege of cooperating with him. God gives us the opportunity as human beings to demonstrate our dignity by graciously saying yes to his call. This is why he invites us to search out, to discover and to embrace our vocation.Discernment is not a choice between good and evil, but often a choice between the good and the best. What is best for you is your proper vocation. # of Satan, because he knows of your goodness and your desire to do God’s will, will sometimes take a different tactic. He will tempt you not to do evil, but to accept only the good-not the best. Compromising the will of God is a very effective tactic of Satan
Tomorrow I am entering Carmel to discern the call to be a Discalced Carmelite nun. Please pray for me 🙏🏻 15:11 This was the Bible verse that struck like lightning to me. It was the first time the Holy Spirit told me that I was called to the religious life 11 years ago. I remember doing adoration a month ago, Jesus showed me the cloistered nuns behind the grill doing adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with me. He said that these few precious souls were kept securely in His Sacred Heart through the grill. He had a lot of enemies in the world so He wanted to keep for Himself even just a few souls who are ALL for Him and He wanted me to be a part of this tiny group of souls.
In the morning before i listened to this talk i was hearing the voice of Christ in eucharistic adoration saying to me: Follow me! It wasn't coincidence that i listened this video some hours later. Praised be Jesus Christ!
I've been thinking about joining the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word. I'm going to schedule a phone call with them. Please pray for me . God Bless You Gabi🙏
Oh wow! I'm in Birmingham, Alabama where the Franciscans of the Eternal Word are at! They do need some new vocations to help them! Please contact them and talk to them! 🙏
@@theresastubblefield5706 I have sent my information on a vocation Inquiry form. But I think I may have sent them the wrong email. I haven't gotten a response from them
The craving for something more despite all achievements & the emptiness that Father had are very things that happen to me now too. I will pray 15 decades for more assurances if i am called for priesthood life.
Wonderful! I’m glad you have that desire! I’m not content with single life anymore and marriage sounds very fulfilling and holy to me. I want children of my own one day, but I am still single at 26. Never had a relationship
Since 2005 I have a calling but I did not answer it couz of different reasons, but I pray to God someday I have a courage to respond and answer my prayer. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us.
@@gabiafterhours I liked the title, Jesus calls all of us to follow Him in different ways so like St Matthew we should all be ready to give everything up to serve God. Each in their own separate vocation and calling.
Thank you so much for this video. The Newman Center at my university was run by Dominican priests and sisters, and I started feeling like the religious life was for me. I dated a girl in my last year of university, but we broke up, and ever since then, I've felt drawn back to thinking about religious life. I also started reading on Benedictine monasticism, and now I'm debating between the Dominicans and Benedictines. Part of me still worries that marriage could also be my calling, and I'm also worried that I won't be able to support my parents and brothers financially if I choose the religious life (especially since we live in an area that's becoming more expensive by the day). Then there's also the part of me feeling that choosing the religious life is cowardly because I'm "escaping" the demands of living in the real world with a career and a family. This video calmed these worries and reinforced the fact that, yes, God is calling me. And that it's not cowardly to want to give up everything to follow Him. The only question left is which order I want to join. I'm going to visit a Benedictine abbey and a Dominican priory near me. The charisms of both orders really interest me, so it's going to be a hard decision.
I completely understand u I feel the same with all these pressures. Especially in this times when everything is so expensive! And u see so much need around u and think for a moment “am I running away” “can I help more my family” “what would happened if dad is deported to Mexico “ and so much more… but I know for sure he is calling me since I was 19 now I’m 26.
Please pray for my religious vocation, that i may be accepted into a Traditional Catholic order, especially in the order of our Lady, the Carmelite order.
Ever since i had a Nun stay at my parents' house for some days, I felt a strong feeling to give more of myself to God. After living the different lives of different religious orders, i didn't feel that was my vocation so i went for a retreat at an Opus Dei centre and there i found peace 🕊️
"The Poem of the Man-God" by Sophia Books, # “You say my daughter has been called by You. But I wish to know in what her call consists.” “In bringing the lilies of a virginal love into the garden of Christ. There will be many such virgins in future centuries! The scented flower beds to counterbalance the links of vice. Praying souls counterbalancing blasphemers and atheists. They are the joy of God.” Mary of Magdala blushes and asks: “And we... the ruins that you are building up... What shall we become?” “What your virgin sisters are. And martyrs against yourselves and recollections of your past and through thirst for love and expiation.” “Must I believe that?” Jesus lays His hand on her # 168 - The Parable of the Lost Drachma
We are called to live in the and love the world, with a secular mentality and a sacerdotal soul. Religious life wasn’t meant for us. We shall serve the Lord with our work and our apostolate. Saint Josemaria, pray for us 🙏🏻
I wept through out this video 😭😭. Thanks thanks and thanks for this video. I have been running from my vocation, the devil made me to believe that am not worthy of the vocation 🥺🥺. I hope God call's is it in my life and I hope he forgives me.
Thanks for this one! This really spoke to me, especially because of many reasons including I began reading the Gospels recently, I was thinking about my vocation recently and, I just realized, I was praying about it today, he also mentioned my confirmation saint, and other reasons ones too but that would make this comment pretty long. Please pray for me Mr. Gabe. I hope to discern/visit next summer. I also though have a feeling that I'm going crazy if I enter religious life, since its just not really common. Pray for me, and thanks for everything you do for Jesus and Mary. AMDG
Thank you Father. This video moved my heart to tears. I don't read the Bible too much, but today before I watched the video I did opened it on Matthew 4:18 providentially. please pray for me.
God bless you so much for making yourself available for God through the Catholic ministry, I only discovered your channel few days ago, but I've so discovered much about my faith than all my entire years of existence, Thanks for saying yes to Jesus and her mother, I desire to propagate our mother Mary too, I hope she provides me with all of the insights that I need... I think she lead me to your channel too. Loves from🇳🇬
@@gabiafterhours I just signed up for the RCIA beginning in September. Thank you for your videos. I’m up to 2 rosaries and 2 Divine Mercy chaplets a day. God bless you, your family, and your ministry. 🌹
I am discerning a call to the Permanent Diaconate, and @ 9:43 was a wonderful blessing from God! Thank you Father, thank you GabbiAfterHours and thanks be to God!
This gives me hope. Though I don’t think that I deserve to join a religious order coz I used to practice homosexual lifestyle, and I tried reaching out to several religious orders, two of them turned me down. One order offered though to discern with me but I am always told to continue discerning. I have been discerning for 5 months now and the desire to join the brotherhood is still there. Praying the rosary every day and attending mass give me a consolation coz I have no idea what else do I need to do.
Never think you are unworthy of a calling to the religious life. We all are unworthy. Trust Jesus. He will make you worthy with His grace. Jesus doesn't see the sinner you once were but the holy brother you will and can be in the future.
I was part of a religious community for six years. I left the congregation three years ago. My sisters and I share deep feelings of gratefulness and love. Nevertheless, it has been a HARD journey. I started a discernment process with the Sisters of Life, and a couple of weeks ago I received a "no" as an answer (simply because I professed my first vows in the other community and their rule doesn't allow it). Please, pray for me. I'm devastated and the path is being so painful.
Deeply touch by your testimony Fr. Thank you and God bless you more. I am discerning for a religious life too and showed up already but I wasn´t able to enter yet due to some responsibilities in the family. Pray for me my dear brethren in Christ to persevere until the end despite many obstacles and distractions. Entrusting and surrendering to God everything. May God´s will be done. I believe if this is what God really wants for me, nothing is impossible. For now, praying the full mysteries of the Rosary, daily mass and devotion to Mama Mary, St. Joseph, my guardian angel and patron saints helps me a lot not to lose sight on what God has put in my heart. United in prayers.To God be the glory!
Thank you so much for this Father. I am discerning my vocation to Carmelite and I am going to write to mother superior of the order of JMJ in Pennsylvania. God bless you all
From thebook"The Poem of the Man-God" by Sophia Books, Maria Valtorta. # “You say my daughter has been called by You. But I wish to know in what her call consists.” “In bringing the lilies of a virginal love into the garden of Christ. There will be many such virgins in future centuries! The scented flower beds to counterbalance the links of vice. Praying souls counterbalancing blasphemers and atheists. They are the joy of God.” Mary of Magdala blushes and asks: “And we... the ruins that you are building up... What shall we become?” “What your virgin sisters are. And martyrs against yourselves and recollections of your past and through thirst for love and expiation.” “Must I believe that?” Jesus lays His hand on her # 168 - The Parable of the Lost Drachma
SIMPLY and BEAUTIFULLY GORGEOUS. GOD BLESS you and PRAY HOLY SPIRIT STRENGTHEN and HOLD you STEADFASTLY in your Priesthood vocation. BLESSED MOTHER PLEASE BESTOW GRACES UPON you and ALL your Priesthood Brothers World in desperate NEED of Priests like yourself in these difficult times. THa
I grew up with a lot of family dysfunction and believed a lot of lies about myself and God. It made it tremendously hard to discern my vocation because I really thought that God just wanted me to suffer or that I should make up for the deficiencies of others. It also drove me crazy that, because I truly desired to give myself to God and practiced prayer, everyone asked me if I was going to be a nun. I knew that everyone was called to be holy no matter what the vocation but I felt that if no one was going into religious life, I could answer the call- make it right for everyone, I'll do it if every one else is being stingy. Thankfully I spent time in prayer everyday so that God could speak or more importantly- not speak. He never ever asked me to marry him. After years of painful discernment I got so tired of the battle in my head that I spent the entire summer just praying about union with God. At the end of the summer I was walking across the parking lot to go to daily Mass and suddenly it was as if I had always known. I am celebrating my tenth wedding anniversary this year and have four lovely children. Through my husband and marriage God has begun and will finish his good work in me. It is incredible what God can do in and through you when you truly let him have his way with you.
Also for fun this is my husband's vocation story. He had recently become Catholic and was just on fire. We went to Mass at this beautiful church with one of my friends that was in seminary at the time (now a priest). We went to go pray in front of this beautiful Mary statue and my future husband's plan was to promise Mary that he would become a priest. We knelt down and before he could promise my future priest friend taps him on the shoulder and is like "hey uh- do you know where the bathroom is??" The message was pretty clear. Please spend your life taking little kids to the bathroom instead of making lavish promises😂😂😂 Some people are just that generous with God 🤗
Wow! “Come and See.” Our Lord is calling. I’ve got 5 grandsons, I pray one will answer the call of a priestly religious vocation. And I’ve got 3 granddaughters perhaps one will answer the call of a consecrated life. 🙏🎚🙏
If they want to get married, will you be upset with them? Don’t force them into it. If they want to, great! If not, don’t worry. Somebody who doesnt want to be a priest and wants to get married instead wont be a good priest.
What a poignant message layered with so much meaning and depth.This sermon is truly a work of God’s art that asks something from you. Thank you Gabi for another great video! 🧖🏻♂️👍🏼
Great video, thanks so much! Please pray for my as I speak with the Director of Consecrated & Religious Life for the first time tomorrow as I begin my discernment to my call to be a Consecrated Virgin Living in the World! I got my calling on Pentecost, and 12:30-13:30 really resonated with how I felt. Blessings!
Di po yan hadlang upang maging pari. Ang Diyos ang magbibigay ng liwanag sa daan n dapat tahakin upang maging pari kayo. Kausapin nyo ung kura paroko sa inyo at humingi ka ng payo.
Discerning a vocation as an only child from a very family-oriented culture has been and continues to be so difficult for me. I feel like I am running out of time, but recently, the door seemed to open again to the possibility that this could be my vocation. I wept throughout this video -- one, because of this continuing restlessness, and two, because of the hope and encouragement your advice gives. Thank you and God bless you, brother. Please pray for us.
I am an only child too and this fact has caused me to delay my response for 10 years. I feel that my call is to be a cloistered Discalced Carmelite nun, imagine that 😅 An only child with parents in their early 60's entering a cloister. But I can't take the restlessness and the feeling of being lost and not belonging to the "outside" world any longer. That's why I'm giving it another try and enter a Carmel very far from home. I chose this because of one of the few reasons: it will make me more detached from my parents and my dog whom I love dearly. Let's give Jesus a chance.
Please pray for me as I discern my Vocation. Will be telling my (as of right now) “unofficial” spiritual director after winter break and am attending a Come and See retreat with the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration this semester. I feel like every Gospel I read and Homily I listen to is Vocational and a proposal to be His Bride, even if it’s just any regular reading and homily for everyone else. Multiple friends told me they had a dream that I was a Sister before I told them. Another friend told me they heard the Lord tell them He sees how strong I am and that he has a place of peace set aside for me, also before I told her I’m feeling called to discern. There’ve been many others in my own prayer life but they’re more intimate so I won’t share. Please pray for me!
I call him my unofficial spiritual director because he’s just 1 of the priests that has a few office hours and then says a Mass at my school and I made an appointment with him when I was getting really scrupulous about a health decision I made and then right after that I got really sick and saw so many people practice the radical self-abandonment love of Christ to me even though I didn’t want them to or expect them to so then we talked about learning how to accept love from others as the people in our lives are channels of Christ’s love to us just as we are to them. Sooooo now he definitely knows a lot more about my health issues than any other man. Ever. And I told him something in that second meeting my therapists didn’t get out of me or notice over the course of 2 years. Aka I trust that man sooooooo much more than I’ve ever trusted pretty much anyone before in my entire life
For a couple of months now I’ve been studying Angelology. It started as an ADHD hyperfixation because I really wanted to create a drawing of the three Archangels. For the last three weeks I keep going back to St. Gabriel the Archangel non-stop. My heart’s been aching wanting to know more and more about the being who got to tell Our Mother about The Savior. It won’t leave me no matter how much I pray and ask what does this mean, and if it’s not from God, for it to begone. But it’s not leaving and I don’t know what to do. This video started with Be Not Afraid. I kinda am afraid right now.
I started praying the complete Rosary everyday for 2 months now (except when I'm so tired - only 5 decades). I really love praying it in front of our chapel tabernacle at my workplace. Overwhelming peace. I just want to lay down and be there forever hahaha. For some reason as well, I love to go to our city's perpetual adoration frequently when I get the chance. I love praying devotions as well, especially the Holy Face devotion and the Friday Stations of the Cross. My mother just told me I might be using religion as my scapegoat for my professional growth, so I'm getting second thoughts if indeed I'm just getting away from reality. Isn't Jesus more real than this temporal life? Please pray for me. I just started daily mass this week.
You are being drawn by the Holy Spirit to prayer, deep prayer. I would embrace this divine grace wholeheartedly. I too was drawn to daily Mass, adoration and prayer before I felt the (earth shattering) call to be a cloistered nun.
I may not have a vocation… but i have a mission, to serve God through serving our veterans who gave their all for the sake of my nations peace and freedom… If i ought to get married, i pray that God will show her the good i do, for the glory of God and for the conversion of my nation… God Bless the Royal British Legion and Pray for my vocation…
Fr, i was so touched where you find urself in peace n God calls you in adoration and sacred blessed sacrament. Cuz i have this experience where i enter a chapel at 3pm. I felt something i couldnt explain but i felt peace after entering the chapel. I joined the old folks reciting the rosary. Is that a sign for me?😢
I can't stop thinking about becoming a Priest. No matter what I do, I come back to it. I'm so scared though. I don't feel worthy, I don't feel like the right choice, I have tattoos and I don't feel like a good enough person. I don't want to disobey this calling but I keep looking for ways out, to run as Jonah did. It's such a strong calling though. How do I let go of my fears to say "Yes" to it?
Thats the problem,overthinking, you are thinking too much ,and you just need to let it go and have faith that faith will lead you..I have same thoughts as you are ,and calling, its scary, i dont feel worthy.Thinking too much,and not doing the action is a problem.Sometimes ,we just need to pull the trigger in life, no matter how we feel,what we think ,or what happens...at least we tried doing something,what can we lose.nothing.
There is no other way but to jump and trust that God will take care of everything. Let me tell you, I ran away from my call to a cloistered religious vocation for 10 years but Jesus and Our Lady caught up with me. You can never feel at peace until you answer with a Yes.
Gabe, Frater did an amazing job with this. All glory to God and His Mother! Young people really need to ask God to do His holy will for their lives. This message is so important! Also, I was wondering if you needed a camera man, a friend of mine died excellent work. I just wanted to share this with you. JMJ, John
Ahhhh.... Job. :) I have no jobs. I wish I was a big organization, but I am a full time youth minister. I am just a guy on UA-cam with some holy friends that help me :). I will pray for his job situation.
Fr Brett Brannen Discernment is not a choice between good and evil, but often a choice between the good and the best. What is best for you is your proper vocation. # “There are only three kinds of persons; those who serve God, having found Him; others who are occupied in seeking Him, not having found Him; while the remainder live without seeking Him and without having found Him. The first are reasonable and happy, the last are foolish and unhappy; those between are unhappy and reasonable.” # All fears can be overcome by increasing one’s faith, hope, and love. In fact, it is not overly simplistic to state that every problem known to man can be fixed by these three theological virtues # God is infinite in power and he loves me infinitely. There is no snatching out of his hand. God will never send me where his grace cannot sustain me. If he asks me to do something difficult, like become a priest, he will give me the grace to do it. I will not fail because he is with me. And I will be happy because I am doing his will. Even if I lack some of the needed qualities, God will help me develop them. In his will lies my peace.
Fr Brett Brannen The Vocational Pre-Determination by God When I was a vocation director, I would visit the Catholic schools in my diocese to teach the children about vocations. I explained to them that before God had even created the world, he knew them and he loved them. He already knew your name, he knew every thought you would ever think, he knew how many hairs were on your head, he knew your sins, he knew your good deeds, and he even saw the moment of your death and your entrance into heaven. And God had already decided your vocation before he had even made the world! Or at least, he had already planned to which vocation you would be called. When it finally became time for you to be born, God created your soul to go inside your tiny body, and it was created specifically for that pre-determined vocation. I call this concept the vocational pre-determination by God, or vocational pre-destination. If God is calling you to marriage, then he prepared your soul and gave you the gifts of body and soul to live out the vocation of marriage. If God is calling you to priesthood, then your soul and body were made with that vocation in mind. This will be an important hint for you as you discern. Look at the gifts God has given to you and where those gifts are best used to build up the Kingdom.
@@samuelagwotu5074 from the book " To Save a Thousand of Souls " by fr Brett Brannen can listen to his podcast . Melchizedekproject , Vianney Vocations
Once I started praying the entire Rosary everyday and going to daily Mass, the desire for religious life became stronger and stronger. The third convent I visited was where I finally found rest! Through Mary, I believe that I have found what I was made for!
BEAUTIFUL!!!! Thank you for sharing this amazing testimony.
@@gabiafterhours ua-cam.com/video/yS94emRuVOY/v-deo.html
And telling people that Mary is with them is basically saying Mary is Omnipresent and she is NOT. IT IS A FALSE DOCTRINE OF SATAN. You will answer to the souls you have all mislead and misleading.
Awesome!
😍 Beautiful
Thank you for sharing with us!
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I am 23 years old. I think I have a vocation for the priesthood can you all pray for me for my discernment.
Yes
@@emmanuelj276 brother, how is your discernment?
I am a young man who strongly feels called to the priesthood. Please pray for me.
Please seek out St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in VA
@@janetplonka8110 I wouldn’t go for the SSPX, on the contrary I am hoping to end up at Our Lady of Guadalupe in Nebraska, the FSSP seminary.
Be a Saint before you become a priest then God will truly bless you with divine love.
@@drewduffey6386 anything against SSPX?
@@afedumm Yes, I used to be a hardcore follower of the SSPX but I’ve since drifted because of finding out their status in relation to Rome. I pray and hope for them to be granted full canonical regularity, as I do believe they are extremely fruitful.
Next week I’m going to a retreat with the sisters. Please pray for me as I discern religious life with the Servants of the Cross and Salesian community. 🙏
Thank you this video really encouraged me to not give up on God’s calling.
Jesus and Mary I surrender to your will. ✝️
~Kiki
“Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.” ~ St Catherine of Siena
Hello!
How was the retreat??😊
I'm 42 and I'm feeling the call.
I will join Carmel next month. I want to be a Religious Brother. Please remember me in your prayers.
Thank you!❤
Immediate see this UA-cam: GODLY MARRIAGE JOHNSON SEQUEIRA
Pray for me too brother. Discerning Carmel.
Please pray for me, too. I learning to become organist and cooker and after ended schools called by God to become religiious brother in Camilians Order. Please pray for me, too. Thank You for Your prayers. God bless you. :) 😇🙏😇
Well I was just accepted to seminary today so I hope so! Keep me in your prayers! God bless, Luke.
Woo! May Our Lord and Our Lady and Saint Joseph bless and keep you, and guide you always! Thank you for being willing!! May God bless you with abundant Humility and Meekness of Heart, and many many Graces from His Most Sacred Heart-through Our Lady's Immaculate heart; Amen!
Luke I hope you're studies are going well.
Luke how are you ?
As a brother seminarian, praying for you.
with St. Camillus de Lellis, I pray for you.
Please pray for me, I have a vocation to priesthood but a strong resistance from my father 🙏
from book( To Save a Thousand Souls) Who Will You Bring With You Into Heaven? I once heard a priest tell his vocation story. I grew up in a very close, devout Catholic family with loving parents and we prayed together as a family every day. I attended a Catholic school with wonderful teaching Sisters and everything in my life revolved around the Church. I lived in a very Catholic culture. I was the number one altar server, the star student, and a leader in my class. Because of this, and the fact that I loved being around the parish, serving and helping out the priests, everyone would say the same thing, “You will be a priest when you grow up. Won’t you?” I heard this constantly from the other kids in my class, from the sisters who taught me, and from the two assistant priests, who were always visiting the classes and interacting with me around the church. But I never heard it from the pastor, which I appreciated. I got tired of people urging the priesthood on me, because I did not especially want to become a priest. I always wondered why the pastor, an elderly Monsignor, never asked me about priesthood as everyone else did, though he was always very kind to the altar servers. One day, as I was coming close to graduation from the parish school, I was assigned to serve the seven o’clock morning Mass and the elderly pastor was the celebrant. Only the two of us were in the sacristy and he vested in silence, mumbling the vesting prayers in Latin and preparing himself for Holy Mass. With just two minutes to go before the Mass began, the Monsignor suddenly turned and said, “John, what will you be doing when you grow up?” I thought to myself, “Oh boy, here it comes. Even from Monsignor.” But I replied, “Monsignor, I am still not certain but I am thinking about going into medicine. I would like to become a doctor.” And the pastor replied, “Good. Good. And what will you do after that?” I said, “Well, I suppose I will marry and have a family of my own.” The priest said, “Good, and what after that?” Not sure exactly where he was going with this line of questioning, I replied, “I guess I will grow old, practicing medicine, and eventually retire. And then I guess I will die and go to heaven.” The pastor nodded his head knowingly, thoughtfully, and he was quiet for a few seconds. Then he looked at me earnestly and said, “And who will you bring with you into heaven?” Immediately, he rang the sacristy bell and we walked out to begin the Mass. I thought to myself, “How clever you are, Monsignor. How clever you are.” I thought about that comment all during the Mass and many more times during my adolescent and young adult years. “And who will you bring with you into heaven?” It was asking myself that question repeatedly that really turned the tide and convinced me eventually that I should become a priest. Every vocation is about helping other people reach heaven. I tell this story not to minimize the greatness of the sacrament of marriage, because marriage serves the same purpose! I suppose the young man might have used the same comment made by the pastor to move him towards the vocation of marriage. But the story illustrates the critical point that a vocation is not primarily about self-fulfillment, but about being the instrument of God in saving others. “What will you do with your life? What are your plans? Have you ever thought of committing your existence totally to Christ? Do you think that there can be anything greater than to bring Jesus to people and people to Jesus?” Pope John Paul II
Beautiful.
It's so wonderful how God gives us a role for the salvation of souls! What an amazing Father we have! ❤ Thank you for your yes!
@George Ortega read this book " To Save a Thousand of Souls " by fr Brett Brannen..God will guide you ..when you grow in wisdom path will be more clear
@George Ortega The Vocational Pre-Determination by God When I was a vocation director, I would visit the Catholic schools in my diocese to teach the children about vocations. I explained to them that before God had even created the world, he knew them and he loved them. He already knew your name, he knew every thought you would ever think, he knew how many hairs were on your head, he knew your sins, he knew your good deeds, and he even saw the moment of your death and your entrance into heaven. And God had already decided your vocation before he had even made the world! Or at least, he had already planned to which vocation you would be called. When it finally became time for you to be born, God created your soul to go inside your tiny body, and it was created specifically for that pre-determined vocation. I call this concept the vocational pre-determination by God, or vocational pre-destination. If God is calling you to marriage, then he prepared your soul and gave you the gifts of body and soul to live out the vocation of marriage. If God is calling you to priesthood, then your soul and body were made with that vocation in mind. This will be an important hint for you as you discern. Look at the gifts God has given to you and where those gifts are best used to build up the Kingdom.
@George Ortega From the book "To save thousands of souls " by fr Brett Brannen
True freedom comes from sacrificing our own wants and desires to reach a greater good. Sometimes this means you cannot have everything you want. And there are some places you cannot go. But God made us for happiness and for greatness. And our happiness and greatness consist in discovering the plan of God for our life and then committing ourselves to this greater good, despite giving up some things. Remember that God does not need us. He is omnipotent. He is infinite in power and can build the Kingdom of God without our help. However, because he loves us, he wants us to have the privilege of cooperating with him. God gives us the opportunity as human beings to demonstrate our dignity by graciously saying yes to his call. This is why he invites us to search out, to discover and to embrace our vocation.Discernment is not a choice between good and evil, but often a choice between the good and the best. What is best for you is your proper vocation.
# of Satan, because he knows of your goodness and your desire to do God’s will, will sometimes take a different tactic. He will tempt you not to do evil, but to accept only the good-not the best. Compromising the will of God is a very effective tactic of Satan
I need everyone pray as i have a strong calling for priesthood and next year i am asked to join the seminary.
with St. Camillus de Lellis, founder of Camillian order, I pray for you.
@@archsword2446 Amen thankyou 🙏
Tomorrow I am entering Carmel to discern the call to be a Discalced Carmelite nun. Please pray for me 🙏🏻 15:11 This was the Bible verse that struck like lightning to me. It was the first time the Holy Spirit told me that I was called to the religious life 11 years ago. I remember doing adoration a month ago, Jesus showed me the cloistered nuns behind the grill doing adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with me. He said that these few precious souls were kept securely in His Sacred Heart through the grill. He had a lot of enemies in the world so He wanted to keep for Himself even just a few souls who are ALL for Him and He wanted me to be a part of this tiny group of souls.
My dear are you still in the Carmel?? I hope you are!❤
Please pray for me, to be not afraid!
With the prayers of Ven. Ursula Benincasa, I am praying for you
In the morning before i listened to this talk i was hearing the voice of Christ in eucharistic adoration saying to me: Follow me!
It wasn't coincidence that i listened this video some hours later.
Praised be Jesus Christ!
You better Follow Him.
I've been thinking about joining the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word. I'm going to schedule a phone call with them. Please pray for me . God Bless You Gabi🙏
My brother! That is a beautiful and holy order. Be assured of my prayers for you!
Oh wow! I'm in Birmingham, Alabama where the Franciscans of the Eternal Word are at! They do need some new vocations to help them! Please contact them and talk to them! 🙏
@@theresastubblefield5706 I have sent my information on a vocation Inquiry form. But I think I may have sent them the wrong email. I haven't gotten a response from them
@@diegofuentes6783 oh no! Just resend it and see!!
@@theresastubblefield5706 Thank You, Theresa. I really ask you to pray for my vocation. I need a lot of prayers. God Bless You My sister in Christ 🙏
I was discerning my vocation, finally i found this, i feel peaceful after hearing this. Powerful preaching
great news! Share more with us, if you can of course:)
Pray for my family when u become a great priest
I’m almost graduating and I felt a calling but I’m scared because my family wouldn’t want me to. But I don’t want to miss the chance.
This video must really have hit home. Praying for you!
The craving for something more despite all achievements & the emptiness that Father had are very things that happen to me now too. I will pray 15 decades for more assurances if i am called for priesthood life.
I will try and do the same.
Wonderful! I’m glad you have that desire! I’m not content with single life anymore and marriage sounds very fulfilling and holy to me. I want children of my own one day, but I am still single at 26. Never had a relationship
You have made me for Thyself, O Lord, and my heart is restless until it rests in Thee. - St. Augustine of Hippo
Since 2005 I have a calling but I did not answer it couz of different reasons, but I pray to God someday I have a courage to respond and answer my prayer. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, pray for us.
I'm a recent convert and the idea of becoming a religious sister has been crossing my mind and heart lately. This is what I've needed to hear!
praying that you consider the Sisters of St. Rita( osa) or the Sisters of the Most Holy Trinity( smht).
Same my dear. I've only been a catechumen for a week!
I'm discerning Salvadoran Sisters of the Lord and the Virgin of Matera
This priest is truly blessed in his ability to convey these words so eloquently.
Brilliant!! Mary is our lighthouse guiding us on our vocational voyage.
What did you think of the title... I am experimenting to find something that would be most appealing even for the married.
@@gabiafterhours I liked the title, Jesus calls all of us to follow Him in different ways so like St Matthew we should all be ready to give everything up to serve God. Each in their own separate vocation and calling.
Well said.
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Thank you. Thank you so much. Please pray for me as I discern!
Thank you so much for this video. The Newman Center at my university was run by Dominican priests and sisters, and I started feeling like the religious life was for me. I dated a girl in my last year of university, but we broke up, and ever since then, I've felt drawn back to thinking about religious life. I also started reading on Benedictine monasticism, and now I'm debating between the Dominicans and Benedictines. Part of me still worries that marriage could also be my calling, and I'm also worried that I won't be able to support my parents and brothers financially if I choose the religious life (especially since we live in an area that's becoming more expensive by the day). Then there's also the part of me feeling that choosing the religious life is cowardly because I'm "escaping" the demands of living in the real world with a career and a family. This video calmed these worries and reinforced the fact that, yes, God is calling me. And that it's not cowardly to want to give up everything to follow Him. The only question left is which order I want to join. I'm going to visit a Benedictine abbey and a Dominican priory near me. The charisms of both orders really interest me, so it's going to be a hard decision.
I completely understand u I feel the same with all these pressures. Especially in this times when everything is so expensive! And u see so much need around u and think for a moment “am I running away” “can I help more my family” “what would happened if dad is deported to Mexico “ and so much more… but I know for sure he is calling me since I was 19 now I’m 26.
I also have had spiritual direction which is so important! And the experience of already living in community.
@@katmorales9447 try the OSST( Trinitarians) or the Theatines
Please pray for my religious vocation, that i may be accepted into a Traditional Catholic order, especially in the order of our Lady, the Carmelite order.
I was just thinking and doubting what is my vocation. And this video shows up on youtube. I'll follow the advice and see what happens.
This is just beautiful! Father please pray for us! I will pray for vocations, God bless you
I was thirsty for God again and you gave me something spiritual to drink again. Thanks from Italy... again! 😁
Ever since i had a Nun stay at my parents' house for some days, I felt a strong feeling to give more of myself to God. After living the different lives of different religious orders, i didn't feel that was my vocation so i went for a retreat at an Opus Dei centre and there i found peace 🕊️
"The Poem of the Man-God" by Sophia Books, # “You say my daughter has been called by You. But I wish to know in what her call consists.” “In bringing the lilies of a virginal love into the garden of Christ. There will be many such virgins in future centuries! The scented flower beds to counterbalance the links of vice. Praying souls counterbalancing blasphemers and atheists. They are the joy of God.” Mary of Magdala blushes and asks: “And we... the ruins that you are building up... What shall we become?” “What your virgin sisters are. And martyrs against yourselves and recollections of your past and through thirst for love and expiation.” “Must I believe that?” Jesus lays His hand on her # 168 - The Parable of the Lost Drachma
We are called to live in the and love the world, with a secular mentality and a sacerdotal soul. Religious life wasn’t meant for us. We shall serve the Lord with our work and our apostolate. Saint Josemaria, pray for us 🙏🏻
I wept through out this video 😭😭. Thanks thanks and thanks for this video. I have been running from my vocation, the devil made me to believe that am not worthy of the vocation 🥺🥺. I hope God call's is it in my life and I hope he forgives me.
Glad it was helpful!
I cried too🥲
This just popped up out of nowhere and it came at the perfect time when I needed this. Thank you 🙏🏻
Please keep me in your prayers for the vocation in my life according to the Lords plan✝️🙏
Of course, gladly.
Only God give us joy and peace, no human will, I found that out through experience.
Please pray for my vocation. I feel a pretty strong calling, and have for a while now, but also want to resist. Please pray for me.
Don't resist happiness. I will pray for you!
You have made us for Yourself, O Lord and my heart is restless until it rests in You.- St. Augustine of Hippo
Thanks for this one! This really spoke to me, especially because of many reasons including I began reading the Gospels recently, I was thinking about my vocation recently and, I just realized, I was praying about it today, he also mentioned my confirmation saint, and other reasons ones too but that would make this comment pretty long. Please pray for me Mr. Gabe. I hope to discern/visit next summer. I also though have a feeling that I'm going crazy if I enter religious life, since its just not really common. Pray for me, and thanks for everything you do for Jesus and Mary.
AMDG
This has been on my heart lately. I feel like God used this video to speak to me and I feel at peace after watching it. Thank you.
Greetings from Orthodox Greece 🇬🇷☦
God bless +
Remember me in your prayers. Amen🙏
🙏God bless all 🙏,I follow you my Lord 🙏
Fr. Is burning with love❤️🔥
WOW
It’s all I can say
God bless
Thank you
Thank you Father.
This video moved my heart to tears.
I don't read the Bible too much, but today before I watched the video
I did opened it on Matthew 4:18 providentially.
please pray for me.
Thank you so much 🙏
Gaby thank you so much amen
God bless you so much for making yourself available for God through the Catholic ministry, I only discovered your channel few days ago, but I've so discovered much about my faith than all my entire years of existence, Thanks for saying yes to Jesus and her mother, I desire to propagate our mother Mary too, I hope she provides me with all of the insights that I need... I think she lead me to your channel too. Loves from🇳🇬
Wow, thank you! So great to hear from you!!!!! I will be praying for you. Mary be with you.
God bless and may he always be your strength and guide you to be a good priest
Gabby thanks to you. I’m starting to be a truly Catholic. Thanks for all your hard work with these videos
My brother, thank you for your comment. I am going to be praying for you.
@@gabiafterhours I just signed up for the RCIA beginning in September. Thank you for your videos. I’m up to 2 rosaries and 2 Divine Mercy chaplets a day. God bless you, your family, and your ministry. 🌹
I am discerning a call to the Permanent Diaconate, and @ 9:43 was a wonderful blessing from God!
Thank you Father, thank you GabbiAfterHours and thanks be to God!
This is what I have been looking for. Thank you Father for being available and enlightening the word. Thank you. Praise Jesus!
This gives me hope. Though I don’t think that I deserve to join a religious order coz I used to practice homosexual lifestyle, and I tried reaching out to several religious orders, two of them turned me down. One order offered though to discern with me but I am always told to continue discerning. I have been discerning for 5 months now and the desire to join the brotherhood is still there. Praying the rosary every day and attending mass give me a consolation coz I have no idea what else do I need to do.
Never think you are unworthy of a calling to the religious life. We all are unworthy. Trust Jesus. He will make you worthy with His grace. Jesus doesn't see the sinner you once were but the holy brother you will and can be in the future.
This wonderful ! Thank you for taking the time to make this! And for saying YeSs to God! 🌟
God Bless you and your family! 🙏💫
So beautiful!!!!! Praise be to Jesus and Honour to our dear Lady Mother Mary🌹🌹🌹
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I was part of a religious community for six years. I left the congregation three years ago. My sisters and I share deep feelings of gratefulness and love. Nevertheless, it has been a HARD journey. I started a discernment process with the Sisters of Life, and a couple of weeks ago I received a "no" as an answer (simply because I professed my first vows in the other community and their rule doesn't allow it). Please, pray for me. I'm devastated and the path is being so painful.
Try the Leaven of the Immaculate heart of Mary... they have a come and see in September. I will pray for you!
try the Sisters of St. Rita( OSA )
Praying for you
This was beautiful! Thank you so much for this video
Deeply touch by your testimony Fr. Thank you and God bless you more.
I am discerning for a religious life too and showed up already but I wasn´t able to enter yet due to some responsibilities in the family. Pray for me my dear brethren in Christ to persevere until the end despite many obstacles and distractions. Entrusting and surrendering to God everything. May God´s will be done. I believe if this is what God really wants for me, nothing is impossible.
For now, praying the full mysteries of the Rosary, daily mass and devotion to Mama Mary, St. Joseph, my guardian angel and patron saints helps me a lot not to lose sight on what God has put in my heart.
United in prayers.To God be the glory!
Thank you so much for this Father. I am discerning my vocation to Carmelite and I am going to write to mother superior of the order of JMJ in Pennsylvania. God bless you all
From thebook"The Poem of the Man-God" by Sophia Books, Maria Valtorta. # “You say my daughter has been called by You. But I wish to know in what her call consists.” “In bringing the lilies of a virginal love into the garden of Christ. There will be many such virgins in future centuries! The scented flower beds to counterbalance the links of vice. Praying souls counterbalancing blasphemers and atheists. They are the joy of God.” Mary of Magdala blushes and asks: “And we... the ruins that you are building up... What shall we become?” “What your virgin sisters are. And martyrs against yourselves and recollections of your past and through thirst for love and expiation.” “Must I believe that?” Jesus lays His hand on her # 168 - The Parable of the Lost Drachma
Beautiful ❤🙏😇✝️ so sincere. Thank you 💞 I am on my way to entering Carmel as a postulant. Please pray for me as I will pray for you ✝️🕊️
Thx for giving authentic & inspiring testimony, Brother. Good Bless you!
SIMPLY and BEAUTIFULLY GORGEOUS. GOD BLESS you and PRAY HOLY SPIRIT STRENGTHEN and HOLD you STEADFASTLY in your Priesthood vocation. BLESSED MOTHER PLEASE BESTOW GRACES UPON you and ALL your Priesthood Brothers World in desperate NEED of Priests like yourself in these difficult times. THa
I grew up with a lot of family dysfunction and believed a lot of lies about myself and God. It made it tremendously hard to discern my vocation because I really thought that God just wanted me to suffer or that I should make up for the deficiencies of others. It also drove me crazy that, because I truly desired to give myself to God and practiced prayer, everyone asked me if I was going to be a nun. I knew that everyone was called to be holy no matter what the vocation but I felt that if no one was going into religious life, I could answer the call- make it right for everyone, I'll do it if every one else is being stingy. Thankfully I spent time in prayer everyday so that God could speak or more importantly- not speak. He never ever asked me to marry him.
After years of painful discernment I got so tired of the battle in my head that I spent the entire summer just praying about union with God. At the end of the summer I was walking across the parking lot to go to daily Mass and suddenly it was as if I had always known. I am celebrating my tenth wedding anniversary this year and have four lovely children. Through my husband and marriage God has begun and will finish his good work in me. It is incredible what God can do in and through you when you truly let him have his way with you.
Also for fun this is my husband's vocation story. He had recently become Catholic and was just on fire. We went to Mass at this beautiful church with one of my friends that was in seminary at the time (now a priest). We went to go pray in front of this beautiful Mary statue and my future husband's plan was to promise Mary that he would become a priest. We knelt down and before he could promise my future priest friend taps him on the shoulder and is like "hey uh- do you know where the bathroom is??"
The message was pretty clear. Please spend your life taking little kids to the bathroom instead of making lavish promises😂😂😂
Some people are just that generous with God 🤗
Immediate see this UA-cam: GODLY MARRIAGE JOHNSON SEQUEIRA
Wow! “Come and See.” Our Lord is calling. I’ve got 5 grandsons, I pray one will answer the call of a priestly religious vocation. And I’ve got 3 granddaughters perhaps one will answer the call of a consecrated life. 🙏🎚🙏
ask St. Monica to pray with you
If they want to get married, will you be upset with them? Don’t force them into it. If they want to, great! If not, don’t worry. Somebody who doesnt want to be a priest and wants to get married instead wont be a good priest.
Next year I'll be joining.....pray for me
What a poignant message layered with so much meaning and depth.This sermon is truly a work of God’s art that asks something from you. Thank you Gabi for another great video! 🧖🏻♂️👍🏼
What did you think of the title... I am experimenting to find something that would be most appealing even for the married.
@@gabiafterhours
It’s perfect. It draws the rest of us in because we all have some kind of vocation in life. Thanks again!
Great video, thanks so much!
Please pray for my as I speak with the Director of Consecrated & Religious Life for the first time tomorrow as I begin my discernment to my call to be a Consecrated Virgin Living in the World! I got my calling on Pentecost, and 12:30-13:30 really resonated with how I felt. Blessings!
I will pray! I actually made a video on consecrated virginity. I will find it and give you the link.
@@mediatrixsolutions Thank you!
@@JLynxy don't forget to see all my videos and get blessed Immediately
@@JLynxy Good luck (nice Miata)
@ Thanks!
Good vocation and happy new life ❤
I needed this
Thank you. God bless you 🙏
I am going into the Benedictine. Ill be praying hard for the world everyday for its conversion. Please pray for me!
I'll be praying for you!
Immediately see all my videos and get blessed Immediately
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Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
A new, marvellous video! Deo gratias. In your kindness pray for me please. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for this beautiful video. God bless you always in abundance. God love our great Shepherds.
Thank you for your beautiful comments!
😢 sobrang Pina iyak ako ng message na ito 😢
Gusto ko talaga pumasok ng seminary upang maging Pari Kaya lang Isang kahig Isang tuka Naman ako 😢
Di po yan hadlang upang maging pari. Ang Diyos ang magbibigay ng liwanag sa daan n dapat tahakin upang maging pari kayo. Kausapin nyo ung kura paroko sa inyo at humingi ka ng payo.
Thank you for sharing.. It was great & I'm touched by the Lord..
God bless you Gabi 🙌🙏🙏🙏🙏
This was very moving...another great video as usual.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching :).
Beautiful
Discerning a vocation as an only child from a very family-oriented culture has been and continues to be so difficult for me. I feel like I am running out of time, but recently, the door seemed to open again to the possibility that this could be my vocation.
I wept throughout this video -- one, because of this continuing restlessness, and two, because of the hope and encouragement your advice gives. Thank you and God bless you, brother. Please pray for us.
I am an only child too and this fact has caused me to delay my response for 10 years. I feel that my call is to be a cloistered Discalced Carmelite nun, imagine that 😅 An only child with parents in their early 60's entering a cloister. But I can't take the restlessness and the feeling of being lost and not belonging to the "outside" world any longer. That's why I'm giving it another try and enter a Carmel very far from home. I chose this because of one of the few reasons: it will make me more detached from my parents and my dog whom I love dearly. Let's give Jesus a chance.
Thank you this was so inspiring.
Please pray for me as I discern my Vocation. Will be telling my (as of right now) “unofficial” spiritual director after winter break and am attending a Come and See retreat with the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration this semester. I feel like every Gospel I read and Homily I listen to is Vocational and a proposal to be His Bride, even if it’s just any regular reading and homily for everyone else. Multiple friends told me they had a dream that I was a Sister before I told them. Another friend told me they heard the Lord tell them He sees how strong I am and that he has a place of peace set aside for me, also before I told her I’m feeling called to discern. There’ve been many others in my own prayer life but they’re more intimate so I won’t share. Please pray for me!
I call him my unofficial spiritual director because he’s just 1 of the priests that has a few office hours and then says a Mass at my school and I made an appointment with him when I was getting really scrupulous about a health decision I made and then right after that I got really sick and saw so many people practice the radical self-abandonment love of Christ to me even though I didn’t want them to or expect them to so then we talked about learning how to accept love from others as the people in our lives are channels of Christ’s love to us just as we are to them. Sooooo now he definitely knows a lot more about my health issues than any other man. Ever. And I told him something in that second meeting my therapists didn’t get out of me or notice over the course of 2 years. Aka I trust that man sooooooo much more than I’ve ever trusted pretty much anyone before in my entire life
Thank you,this was wonderful.
I stand with Bishop Strickland, a real shepherd of Christ. Take up you Rosary and pray for him. Pax Christi
For a couple of months now I’ve been studying Angelology. It started as an ADHD hyperfixation because I really wanted to create a drawing of the three Archangels. For the last three weeks I keep going back to St. Gabriel the Archangel non-stop. My heart’s been aching wanting to know more and more about the being who got to tell Our Mother about The Savior. It won’t leave me no matter how much I pray and ask what does this mean, and if it’s not from God, for it to begone. But it’s not leaving and I don’t know what to do.
This video started with Be Not Afraid. I kinda am afraid right now.
🤍 Thank You!
I’m in tears
Wonderful video! Can you make a similar video but to the vocation of Marriage. God Bless you
Yes I can and will! God bless you my friend.
@@gabiafterhours Thank You so much!
@Nathaniel Pettit "Don't do that", marriage is a vocation and must be discerned properly. Through marriage we have other vocations
Peace
Wonderful video, thank you, this has helped me alot.
13:58 great quote
I started praying the complete Rosary everyday for 2 months now (except when I'm so tired - only 5 decades). I really love praying it in front of our chapel tabernacle at my workplace. Overwhelming peace. I just want to lay down and be there forever hahaha. For some reason as well, I love to go to our city's perpetual adoration frequently when I get the chance. I love praying devotions as well, especially the Holy Face devotion and the Friday Stations of the Cross. My mother just told me I might be using religion as my scapegoat for my professional growth, so I'm getting second thoughts if indeed I'm just getting away from reality. Isn't Jesus more real than this temporal life? Please pray for me. I just started daily mass this week.
You are being drawn by the Holy Spirit to prayer, deep prayer. I would embrace this divine grace wholeheartedly. I too was drawn to daily Mass, adoration and prayer before I felt the (earth shattering) call to be a cloistered nun.
St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in VA!
I may not have a vocation… but i have a mission, to serve God through serving our veterans who gave their all for the sake of my nations peace and freedom…
If i ought to get married, i pray that God will show her the good i do, for the glory of God and for the conversion of my nation…
God Bless the Royal British Legion and Pray for my vocation…
Im 25 years old, and Im being called
Fr, i was so touched where you find urself in peace n God calls you in adoration and sacred blessed sacrament. Cuz i have this experience where i enter a chapel at 3pm. I felt something i couldnt explain but i felt peace after entering the chapel. I joined the old folks reciting the rosary. Is that a sign for me?😢
I can't stop thinking about becoming a Priest. No matter what I do, I come back to it. I'm so scared though. I don't feel worthy, I don't feel like the right choice, I have tattoos and I don't feel like a good enough person. I don't want to disobey this calling but I keep looking for ways out, to run as Jonah did. It's such a strong calling though. How do I let go of my fears to say "Yes" to it?
Thats the problem,overthinking, you are thinking too much ,and you just need to let it go and have faith that faith will lead you..I have same thoughts as you are ,and calling, its scary, i dont feel worthy.Thinking too much,and not doing the action is a problem.Sometimes ,we just need to pull the trigger in life, no matter how we feel,what we think ,or what happens...at least we tried doing something,what can we lose.nothing.
There is no other way but to jump and trust that God will take care of everything. Let me tell you, I ran away from my call to a cloistered religious vocation for 10 years but Jesus and Our Lady caught up with me. You can never feel at peace until you answer with a Yes.
Please pray for my marriage🙏
I love everything about this video 🙏✝️🛐💙
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Thank you so muxh I loved this, it was joyful and challenging and loving.
Gabe,
Frater did an amazing job with this. All glory to God and His Mother! Young people really need to ask God to do His holy will for their lives. This message is so important!
Also, I was wondering if you needed a camera man, a friend of mine died excellent work. I just wanted to share this with you.
JMJ, John
John so great to hear from you. Currently I am the camera man :).
@@gabiafterhours if you ever need one, let me know.
@@johnbevilacqua14 Location?
I live outside Philadelphia. My friend lives in South Jersey. He would relocate for a job.
Ahhhh.... Job. :) I have no jobs. I wish I was a big organization, but I am a full time youth minister. I am just a guy on UA-cam with some holy friends that help me :). I will pray for his job situation.
Fr Brett Brannen
Discernment is not a choice between good and evil, but often a choice between the good and the best. What is best for you is your proper vocation.
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“There are only three kinds of persons; those who serve God, having found Him; others who are occupied in seeking Him, not having found Him; while the remainder live without seeking Him and without having found Him. The first are reasonable and happy, the last are foolish and unhappy; those between are unhappy and reasonable.”
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All fears can be overcome by increasing one’s faith, hope, and love. In fact, it is not overly simplistic to state that every problem known to man can be fixed by these three theological virtues
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God is infinite in power and he loves me infinitely. There is no snatching out of his hand. God will never send me where his grace cannot sustain me. If he asks me to do something difficult, like become a priest, he will give me the grace to do it. I will not fail because he is with me. And I will be happy because I am doing his will. Even if I lack some of the needed qualities, God will help me develop them. In his will lies my peace.
Fr Brett Brannen
The Vocational Pre-Determination by God When I was a vocation director, I would visit the Catholic schools in my diocese to teach the children about vocations. I explained to them that before God had even created the world, he knew them and he loved them. He already knew your name, he knew every thought you would ever think, he knew how many hairs were on your head, he knew your sins, he knew your good deeds, and he even saw the moment of your death and your entrance into heaven. And God had already decided your vocation before he had even made the world! Or at least, he had already planned to which vocation you would be called. When it finally became time for you to be born, God created your soul to go inside your tiny body, and it was created specifically for that pre-determined vocation. I call this concept the vocational pre-determination by God, or vocational pre-destination. If God is calling you to marriage, then he prepared your soul and gave you the gifts of body and soul to live out the vocation of marriage. If God is calling you to priesthood, then your soul and body were made with that vocation in mind. This will be an important hint for you as you discern. Look at the gifts God has given to you and where those gifts are best used to build up the Kingdom.
thank you Fr !!!!
@@samuelagwotu5074 from the book " To Save a Thousand of Souls " by fr Brett Brannen
can listen to his podcast . Melchizedekproject , Vianney Vocations
Thanks