Priests Offer Advice for Those Considering the Priesthood

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  • @Korpsman23
    @Korpsman23 6 років тому +72

    Please, include me in your prayers, for I'm about to say, "yes." :)

  • @rannyarteta362
    @rannyarteta362 4 роки тому +31

    I'm not even sure now how many times I watched this video. Thank you to the priests in this vid for giving me motivation and inspiration to say yes to the priesthood. Hopefully, priesthood is really my vocation. May God bless you all!

  • @opiopeter2911
    @opiopeter2911 7 місяців тому +3

    Pray for me I have applied for missionary congregation

  • @christ_mark
    @christ_mark Рік тому +3

    Please pray for my calling, I am still in high school and I first need to get through it ❤ but I know God is with me and thank you for this video it really encouraged me ❤😊

    • @archsword2446
      @archsword2446 Рік тому +1

      praying you consider becoming Hieronymites

  • @jaredhernandez1683
    @jaredhernandez1683 4 роки тому +4

    This Video Is Gold , precious, a gift from God , praise God

  • @anmolpeter-e7c
    @anmolpeter-e7c 10 місяців тому +2

    This video give me motivation really god is calling me not today but everyday i Heard his voice in my ears ❤

  •  3 роки тому +1

    Please pray for my vocation and may He who calls me will give me those things that I need to respond to that call. I really need your prayers on this. Thank you!

  • @templarknight4768
    @templarknight4768 6 років тому +27

    Im thinking of becoming one. I feel the call in my heart

  • @rasiosabiso8743
    @rasiosabiso8743 4 роки тому +2

    I am inspired for the advise of these inspiring Priest so I would like to share humbly the result of my meditation pertaining to my vocation while disposing myself in the season of lent.
    In doing meditation during the lent, I feel deep shame before God because of my sinfulness and weaknesses. And mindful for this, I feel I am not worthy to become a priest. But as I felt a deep shame, the feeling of being called by God to do something extra ordinary keeps on reverberating. I constantly feel deep within my heart being pushed to pursue my vocation despite my unworthiness.
    The Enhanced Community Quarantine period and Lenten season became a very significant moment of my life that which raised the level of my awareness regarding the call of God for me to become His holy priest. While staying indoors because of the corona virus pandemic, I continue to pray and even participate daily in the live stream masses. In my prayer, disposition in the mass, reading the Bible, daydreaming, imagination and reminiscing my past experiences I find myself coming back to the ideas about the diocesan priesthood. Whenever I think of worldly pleasure, there is this tiny voice in my heart that keeps on hindering me. The tiny voice trying to dampen me from my worldly desire.
    Much more when I meet and know new priests and upon hearing at their calling to the priesthood, and faithfully gazing them celebrating the Holy Eucharist and performing other sacraments, I am used to be inspired and feel their enigmatic grace. I have an attraction to something they have represent. I am also attracted to many of the things that are involved in their life as priest. I can see that they live a life worth living. Hence, constantly, my heart is longing to be like them and wishing to die as Holy, Eucharistic, Marian and Virtuous priest.
    Given this unparalleled time that we are in because of this corona virus pandemic, my awareness and deep feeling of being called by God to priesthood is all the more getting deeper. Honestly, before this pandemic happened, there are experiences I have been through which brought me to apprehend that priestly life is worth dying for. Priestly life is the kind of life that God wanted me to be. Though this vocation is not my primary and greatest dream in my life but steadily it becomes my desire which over time get stronger and continue to persist. I said so, because God continuously speaking to me to pursue this kind of vocation through the encouraging words and inspiration of my friends, neighbors, my family (especially to my dying father before he was comatose), and to some circumstances of my life.
    Hence, with all honesty and sincerity, I am strongly inspired and determined to take the new challenges of my life in the foreign Diocese accepting foreign seminarian. So to speak, my desire and willingness to serve in the foreign Diocese is highly motivated for my unfathomable love for God and my loving service to the Church around the world. My heart is aching as I made the decision to leave my country, my hometown, and my family. But because I really want to respond to God’s invitation for me, then, the sorrow and pain of being separated from my family will be put aside for the greater glory of God. Yes, I have the courage and valiant spirit to take whatever difficult challenges in the formation. In fact, I have the willingness to take the risk in getting there somewhere in the foreign land for I have entrusted completely my whole life in God. Yes, it is possible to serve God like many holy lay-people but it is not enough for me just to be like them. I desire to win souls, continue the mission of Jesus Christ, proclaim the Gospel, inspire people to love the Eucharist and do such things such as performing sacraments that only priest can do.
    To all the people who have profound love for vocation to priesthood, I humbly appeal for prayer, guidance and support for the fulfillment and fruitfulness of my toughest decision to pursue my vocation in the foreign land. It is a great challenge for me to be far from my family but I believe it is what I ought to do. By hook or by crook, it is the best way to inspire and motivate me to set free myself and have focus in my formation.
    To end, I do hope and pray that the powerful WILL of God be done unto me. May our Blessed Virgin Mary-the Perpetual Mother of vocation intercedes for me and the other seminarians. May the Holy Spirit enlighten my mind with true wisdom and my heart with love, humility, perseverance and other virtues. And may our Lord Jesus Christ continue to guide and lead me in the right path.
    My sincere thanks to all the priests who inspired me.
    Thank you. God Bless.
    You can message me in my FB account: Rasios Nomis

  • @ekuanthony6757
    @ekuanthony6757 3 роки тому +2

    Please pray for me ..I am just about to make my decision

  • @itv-wz4rb
    @itv-wz4rb Рік тому

    Thank you sooo much, you truly dont understand how much this helped.

  • @texmex5329
    @texmex5329 2 роки тому

    I’m praying for the answer to a possible calling

  • @louispitagno9422
    @louispitagno9422 2 роки тому

    I have felt the call for a while now, but im in a very difficult moment in life...feeling trapped. Please pray for me. That His will be done

  • @benedward6146
    @benedward6146 4 роки тому +1

    I think God is calling me I should have a courage to become a priesthood..But i was drop out from college..So please pray for me

  • @bencanevari4056
    @bencanevari4056 3 роки тому +11

    Will everyone who sees this comment please pray for me? I have a desire to serve Him as a priest, but I'm terrified to say yes because right now I'm in a difficult place in my life.

    • @thomasburridge8776
      @thomasburridge8776 3 роки тому

      Of course brother😉🙏🏼

    • @bencanevari4056
      @bencanevari4056 9 місяців тому

      @@mrt3331 I haven't yet but it does remain a goal of mine. Thanks!

  • @stratliddiard1564
    @stratliddiard1564 5 років тому +2

    I think I am being called but I am old and unsure if I can serve God and Jesus in this way.. I feel inadequate and scared but the pull is great.

    • @michaelc1732
      @michaelc1732 4 роки тому +3

      The Lord calls us at different times in our lives my friend.

    • @pauljordan4452
      @pauljordan4452 8 місяців тому

      ​@@michaelc1732Of course some widowers are called.
      I wasn't called 15 years ago.

  • @michelcius
    @michelcius 3 роки тому

    Praise the Lord

  • @helencastelino2261
    @helencastelino2261 3 роки тому

    I pray for all men, women, boys, girls who God almighty, holy spirit, Jesus calling for vocation. And rest others calling for family life. God bless both vocation people and family people. Love you God and Trinity.

  • @mauricioduran2527
    @mauricioduran2527 Рік тому

    What do you have to lose?
    The Lord uplifts the humble and makes them instruments of His peace. Take courage, have faith!
    Vivat Jesus

  • @ntokozonxumalo9332
    @ntokozonxumalo9332 3 роки тому

    01:00 he was like he is talking to me. I going next year although am scared.

  • @KingPriestCB
    @KingPriestCB 9 місяців тому

    1:13 I feel the same like this. What should I do?

  • @v-veritas
    @v-veritas 3 роки тому +4

    I hope God knows what He's doing after He called me... xD
    I witnessed God calling me three times in one single occasion, just like He asked Peter the apostole: “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”
    God only wants me to say: “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”

  • @michelcius
    @michelcius 3 роки тому +3

    I feel that God is is calling me

  • @ojSimpson-g8f
    @ojSimpson-g8f 9 місяців тому

    I asked a priest for a litlte college recommendation to start my online training to become a priest. He said basically told me stop bothering me and to go somewhere else ?

    • @Mistah_Boombastic_BiggieCheese
      @Mistah_Boombastic_BiggieCheese 8 місяців тому

      I feel worried that I have a calling to the priesthood because I am 26 and cant find a good woman to marry. Im always getting rejected and I want a family of my own.

    • @christophersalinas2722
      @christophersalinas2722 8 місяців тому

      speak to your dioceses vocation director

  • @babyboy8597
    @babyboy8597 7 років тому +10

    My uncle is a priest.

    • @am4635
      @am4635 7 років тому +7

      Dude, your so lucky to have that special connection and support for the faith. I myself want to be a priest.

    • @babyboy8597
      @babyboy8597 7 років тому +1

      recoil 403 Follow Jesus then! Be one of his holy apostles.

    • @am4635
      @am4635 7 років тому

      Thank you for the encouragement, God bless you.

    • @archsword2446
      @archsword2446 6 років тому

      recoil 403 consider healthcare and Priesthood, join the Camillians.

    • @alexheat0678
      @alexheat0678 6 років тому

      @@am4635 There was once an old man who sat and waited for gods sweet call to hear his voice he never found it god should not have to chase us we should chase him thats what the call to the priesthood felt like to me i will pray for you who knows maybe one day we will be cardinals.

  • @samuellentumunai3276
    @samuellentumunai3276 5 років тому +2

    The holy spirt well help me to join that

  • @boom-bm1kl
    @boom-bm1kl 3 роки тому +1

    I chose marriage and I love my wife and kids, but I always feel that tug. Hence my watching this video. I'm 40 now though

    • @jakewhite4675
      @jakewhite4675 Рік тому

      Have you considered the Diaconate?

    • @pauljordan4452
      @pauljordan4452 8 місяців тому

      Married diaconate or after your wife has passed away.

  • @bryanjohn9985
    @bryanjohn9985 7 років тому +3

    think of this way you dont have to worry bout anything

  • @zakkenroller
    @zakkenroller Рік тому +1

    Diocesan formation is the worst. Believe me if it’s not for you the seminary and formation/personnel director will make sure you get kicked out!

  • @FranklinPUroda
    @FranklinPUroda 6 років тому +3

    "Why do you want to be a priest"? The primary answer, IMO, is "Because I love Jesus God Almighty." All the other reasons: Church, ministry, etc. flow from this. The Name of Jesus was not mentioned in this promo. What gives? Are these guys ashamed to mention His Name, and substitute "Lord" and "God" for "Jesus"?

    • @hiddensaint3251
      @hiddensaint3251 5 років тому +5

      Franklin P. Uroda ... dude that’s pretty much a given

  • @jaybig1416
    @jaybig1416 3 роки тому

    How can you give the priesthood when you do not have the keys, authority to do so. So their for the Catholic Church do not have the keys to give it to anyone.

  • @dennisjacob1081
    @dennisjacob1081 5 років тому

    Ruben sg sedu

  • @jaybig1416
    @jaybig1416 3 роки тому

    The Catholic Church doesn’t have the keys of the priesthood, so that means they don’t have the authority to do so.

  • @benjez2782
    @benjez2782 8 місяців тому +2

    I’m doing this every saint is Raymond I’m saint Raymond Miracle i’m entering priesthood🎉

    • @benjez2782
      @benjez2782 8 місяців тому +1

      I can’t wait to be drafted in philosophy, even though I drowned myself in it before making the decision I was making this decision before I knew I was gonna make the decision