Discerning a Vocation to the Priesthood and Religious Life
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Today, Fr. Josh tackles a question from Matthew; "Do you think God is calling less people to religious orders or do you think more people are just ignoring the call?"
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I'm a Protestant layman that would love to be Catholic and even be a monk or something if it came to that, but unfortunately I'm to mentally ill to pursue a public career. I'm still learning about Catholicism on reddit and youtube though, so pray for me, as I'm trying to convert myself to heal a rift in my family.
I can't stop thinking about priesthood. I have been denying the calling for 2 years. Now I have submitted myself before god and will be joining the seminary next year remember me in your prayers. Whenever I look at the holy eucharist my heart is filled up with peace and tears roll down. I am 25 years old and I don't know if I am late to join the seminary but I wanna live with jesus forever ❤
I know a seminarian who joined at 42 it's never too late
Richard Dunwell, I will pray for you and remember your name. Hope that one day I will see this CZcams account and it will say Fr. Richard :)
You're not too old! Follow God
@@israeliana yes 🥹
@@reddave215 🥹🥹
I’ve always wanted to be a mom. Always have wanted to have children, live in the suburbs with my husband. All of it. I never even knew about discerning about vocations but now I’m in college and I’ve found that while I do think I’m called deeper, to be more holy, I do think I’m made to be a mom. I had this confusing moment where I thought I needed to be a nun in order to be holy, but I discovered it was because I didn’t have a lot of adults around me (not in religious life) that were just holy people. I didn’t really know about holy marriage. Understanding the true sacrament of matrimony now has made me better understand his will. I don’t think I would be truly unhappy in religious life because how could I be? But Jesus knows my heart and desires. Every time I ask him he tells me to just keep doing what I’m doing. I’m in an awesome Catholic relationship and wow. My boyfriend inspires me so so much. I really see myself marrying him some day. He helps me in this journey of faith and it’s inspiring.
I am in your exact same situation and let me just say how absolutely relieving it is to know that there are other women out there who are having the same experience as I am. Thank you so much for leaving this comment. It's helped me more than you can know! God bless you!
Wow Abby thank you for your comment! This really spoke to my heart ❤️
i was first introduced to vocations by a nun, told her basically this but from a male perspective
she told me about how a religious vocation is not a rejection of this desire but elevating it, as a priest I would be a father over a parish rather than my family similarly some nuns serve as mothers for their order
anyway im discerning the dominicans now, my prayers are for you and i hope you will pray for me
May the Lord bless your relationship ❤✝️🕊️
God is so good - I knew as a young adult that i had a vocation to religious life but i said 'no'. I wanted marriage, a home, wordly things. God sent me a wonderful man who died young from pancreatic cancer. In my forties God called me again and this time I said yes, and He has given me the joy of serving Him as a Franciscan Sister. As my wonderful Bishop said, God wants us to thrive and be happy in His service. Out of all the pain God has accepted my service....He has a perfect plan for all of us.
Here's my #GloryStory. My parish has been recently reopening Eucharistic Adoration. I signed up for Adoration on Thursday at 6 p.m, so when the Hour has enough people, they would contact me to start. Turns out, they told me my first one would be on Nov 4th, which is my birthday! That was such a beautiful gift from Jesus, like : I want to be with you on your birthday :) The gifts didn't stop there. I had been praying and asking for the Bible in a Year Podcast in Spanish, because since I live in Mexico, I wanted to share the Word with my family and friends. On the very day of my birthday, I read that Ascension would be launching Podcast Biblia en Un Año on January 2022. I was ecstatic. The Lord is Good.
Wawoo praise be to God
This is beautiful!! VIVA CHRISTO REY
Thank you thank you thank you. I've been having so much anxiety over this and I think it's because I never realized that God gives me the choice to say yes or no, and that it's not a sin for me to say no
I've also experienced a lot of anxiety with regards to discerning my vocation. It can help to keep in mind that God knows us best and what he wants for our lives is the best path to holiness for us!
Fr. Josh! So good! I ALWAYS encourage young men and women to discern religious life. If God isn't calling you then cool. If he is calling you, then nothing could make you happier!
How do you know if you do or dont have a call? I am almost 26 and I want to get married, but I have never had a single girlfriend in my life. Im very physically active. But I am only 5’8 and scared to ask women out in person because I feel too scared of rejection and I dont feel like I am tall or handsome enough for a woman to marry me. Many men 18-30 havent ever approached women for a date because they feel the same way I do. Im starting to get more involved in my church community for the first time ever, but still I feel sad, lonely, invisible, and demoralized. Pray for me that I find my future wife soon. I literally only consider religious life and priesthood not because I see myself happy there, but ONLY BECAUSE I havent had a relationship before. Im not kidding. I dont want to be permanent single and celibate. If I was ok with those, then fine I would go in, but I am not.
Catholic here. The priesthood has been on my mind as a possibility in recent times. I am trying to learn more about discernment.
Then this video opens with my favorite song from childhood - Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee - and then it gets followed up by one of my favorite songs now - Ben Rector's Sunday. I think it's a sign 😂
At age of 19 I had exactly this question in me. I prayed the rosary for a year and I got the idea of starting theology studies and becoming a priest. But then some how i had fear of future and that I might look like fool in front of Science and at that times i had a crush in my life. Then i changed my plans and went to study Science and becoming a Science. Immediately after joining the university I got diagnosed with schizophrenia and dropped out of university...now after 9 years I live like a zombie in my small appartement. Sometimes I think now what if I had taken the Theology way. Thank you for this Video. This year I have additionaly found strength through the bible in a year and all the masses I have attended in my church. I wondering where God is taking me.
Have you looked into lithium orotate supplement? It may help.
May God strengthen you in your daily struggle
@@DarkAngel-cj6sx he is doing that.
Also sulforaphane by avmacol. God bless
No matter how far we run, if God calls us, he'll keep waiting. Just turn around and come back to him. Prayers and Love
God's Providence is in everything.
You also can't miss your vocation by accident or by 'not knowing' or accidentally choosing a different thing.
If someone has a religious vocation of any sort, God will make His proposition clear. The only possibility to 'miss' it is by actually rejecting it, or perhaps also implicitly rejecting it by rejecting God if living outside of grace (outside of the sacraments of the Church, living far away from God in mortal sin,).
But you can't miss it accidentally, as in choosing the 'wrong' study subject (also you don't know, maybe it wasn't even wrong in the first place?). God's Providence is in everything. And God has also His timing.
The important thing with (any) vocation (in broad sense) is by staying close to God. Then you may feel secure, that if you're in sanctifying grace, you develop the life of prayer, then God will make of your life what He wants to make of your life, whatever it may be.
Mental ilneew is certainly difficult and a cross to carry, however, I've met many people with schizophrenia (used to do a poetry events of poems written by them, there was the whole fundation publishing the poetry etc.) whose faith was very deep amidst the suffering and were close to the Lord.
Btw praying the rosary is great z you should keep it up! There's many graces flowing from that! God bless. 🙏
Thank and Bless you Fr Josh.
I am an elderly woman. I have heard God's call my whole life; I hear him now. I take it I am too late to be a religious. I do not know what God wants from me now....I have nowhere in his name to go.
May the Immaculate Conception protect and guide you as you do God's Will 🙏
Why don't you look at consecrated singlexwoman living in the world? Sorry i do not have the specific wording but you can look at thistwhere you live. God bless you.
@@njerimatenjwa5467 I think what you are referring to is The Order of Consecrated Virgins living in the world, the Ordo Virginum
I feel happiness and comfort when I think about me being a priest
Father Josh , Thank you for this podcast 👏👏👏👏👏
God bless you always.
Jesus is so Good
🙏🕊🙏 Amen Lovely FR Josh thank you may God bless you
I am 42 and live in a Nordic country. I have not been religious until 2018. The last couple of years have been hard, physically and mentally. But the light of the Lord have come into my life and it has saved my life in more ways than one. I am converting from secularism to Catholicism and come Easter I will join you, my future brothers and sisters.
I do not feel a call towards marriage, my love is towards everyone.
How does a poor man like me follow a call to religious life
@@DiaryofaGrimReaper I'll pray for you. But I had hoped for a different response...
Religious vocations have nothing to do with money. But just because you were religious it doesn't mean you don't want to get married and you didn't want to have a family. If you can't qualify to be someone's wife or husband or someone's father. Then you are not called to become a religious God asked you to give those things up not because she don't want them. And that's a big difference the church do not want people who are not capable of being married. I will keep you in prayer. Sister Mary Francis Bard
@@myalabasternetwork3578 Perhaps a religious life is not mine to have. It is a dream of mine and even dreams can die. I had so many dreams before my world was destroyed. But in all the darkness, I found a new friend who showed me the way to the Church and it feels like home. I am very grateful for that.
Now I can dream again and I will work towards them. Thank you for the prayers.
Try to go to mass every day. Get a spiritual advisor or talk to a priest. It usually takes three years before you can even talk to someone officially to become a religious. Unfortunately because you were not born Catholic. They want to make sure that you have a strong Catholic Foundation. I'm a converted well and it took me about three years before I could submit to religious orders. That's the rules from the Vatican and some kind religious congregations and Diocese make you wait even longer. So if you feel called by God work on yourself now. By being active in your Parish and getting to know your your priest.🙏🙏🙏
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Thank you for your reply.
Here in Copenhagen, those of us wanting to convert every Thursday evening learning about the Catholic Church from September to March ending with Electio. The teachers are Sisters, Deacons or Priests. It is done every year, right now we are 10 people every Thursday. I do go to Mass every sunday and I am planning to go to Mass tomorrow morning, where they also pray the full Rosary. I am happy every time I step into a Church, all my troubles disappear if only for a while.
But I have trouble deciding on which parish to be active. The Cathedral is 15 mins away, my local parish Church is 5 min. But the Cathedral have so many activities yet the local church have Franciscan Friars that I could learn from.
So many considerations. .sorry for rambling on.
I am a mom. When my kids were teenagers, I became a consecrated lay woman. Divorce and annulment was part of that process. Now I am discerning married life for a second time in my life. You can't ignore God's call or His will for your life. I belong to an Apostolate that prays for priests and Bishops and the Pope. It's called 7 Sisters. Vocations don't always look the same. Consecrated lay people are allowed to be married, but without our priests and nuns, we would not be able to do what we do. I volunteer at a Soup Kitchen and I am a school student. All I know is that I hope that I get to be a wife to the man who asked me to marry him, but I am just as blessed when I hear the people who I minister to call me Mama. It STILL humbles me. 15 years later. My youngest child is in the seminary now. Someday I will get to call him Father! And my daughters are both married, the younger of the two daughters is a Mom, as well. Of my 3 beautiful Children, my oldest and her husband are the two that have natural tendency to Love deeper and outside of themselves as a couple. It's what God provides for them. My middle daughter and her husband and my grandchildren as well are agricultural people. Living strongly their Vocations. Why do I write all this? Because somehow, Jesus poked through the hard things in our lives. Even my boyfriend who asked me to marry him has a deep calling to the Lord. We started dating doing street ministry. Thank you, Father for your talk today. I got alot out of it. # glory story!
He has given me peace of mind in the midst of tumultuous times 🙏
Thank you Father it's so nice to hear you speak and hear you sing. God bless you always
Thank you Father Josh. Blessed are those who God has called into the religious life.
Amen 🙏 and God bless! 🙏❤🙏
God bless you. Holy Spirit-fueled message today, thank you.
I don’t know if this is a Glory Story, but my last confession was around September 30th before First Friday. Those who don’t know, this is the feast day of St Jerome, who was educated by a Pagan and a Christian. Also, he is the Patron Saint of Librarians. My first job was working in a library, and I felt absolutely inadequate to the task. My mom once told me that the doctors said that I was supposed to be born on September 30th, but I was really born on October 17th. Learning languages has always fascinated me, but I was terrified of studying Spanish in high school because the teacher would expect so much from her students.
God bless you father
Amen! God bless you father you really helped on this🙏
Very insightful Fr. Josh love the knowledge you drop.
More Fr. Josh please.
Thank you and God bless you
Although I’m just a wife and Mother, I like to try and here God’s word wherever I am. Each Morning I like to hear the Shema on CZcams. To remind me everything I do is for the lord. So this morning I click on CZcams to listen and up pops Ask Father Josh and this post about discerning the priesthood or religious life. So OK lord, I’ll listen to this first. I might not be in a position to discern the religious life, but I can give everything I have to God, the church, my husband, and my children. Maybe my children might discern the religious life, or maybe their children will. I’ve shared this post on Twitter. Maybe someone will see it and discern.
I come to do your will Lord. Do with me what you will 🙏🏻
Guys make sure you leave a few comments so this channel can get more awareness 💖
Interesting! One of the most helpful information I have gotten about vocational discernment!
Thanks for making this video!
I love how Fr.Josh justa sings because she he’s so in love with Jesus
#AskFrJosh. Father Josh, I am discerning the priesthood and have even contacted my vocations director. I am filled with so much anxiety however. I am a recent graduate and this year have started a year training as a teacher. I am soon meeting my vocations director (next week) for a coffee and chat. Meanwhile I'm lesson planning and fretting about this teaching course. I do not feel I can confide in my family as most aren't really catholic, yet I'd desperately like some warm guidance or someone who understands. What should I do?!
👍🏼👍🏼 whereabouts are you from Liam?
@@lukemccann Grew up in London, have studied in Swansea for the last few years. Unfortunately, I have left the teaching course now and plan to give discernment a go- my friends were sad but understanding to see me go! Wish me luck haha!
@@liammurphy8970 fair play Liam, praying for you. Could well be in the same boat as you, will continue praying on it. Our Lady and her Divine Son are getting their army ready for the wars to come. Viva Cristo Rey.
Teaching will be there when you come back. I'm a teacher myself and I've heard of plenty of teachers who chose this as their second career. I say discern your religious vocation first, you already know you like teaching. But you'll never know about religiois life unless you try it!! Prayers your way! 🙏🏼
we are your family! i am your sister in Jesus Christ. i will keep you in my prayer intentions, brother. i hope your discernment has been going well.
Thank you for this Fr Josh, my mind is much clearer now. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
What a very nice video, thanks Fr, GBU
Miseducation of Lauryn Hill -- I still love that album. A few of those songs are classics. "To Zion" is a pro-life song about her son. "Ex-Factor" is about Wyclef. 4:52 "If we teach young people how to pray then we can trust them with their vocations and discernment of their vocation." 14:59 "We have been created to marry God." A video I really liked that just came out the other day is "Be Poor with Me: Reflections on Poverty" by Christ the Bridegroom Monastery. The book 'Pray, Decide, and Don't Worry' by the Angels and Fr. Mike is also helpful. God bless. Thank you, Fr. Josh, helpful information.
Beautiful video !! ❤️
Fr. Josh, you should make a playlist on spotify and share with us
Plz more videos by Fr.Josh J.
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Fr Josh - excellent message (love the singing!). When I was married I had this very strong desire that if anything were to happen that I became single I couldn't shake the feeling of wanting to sell everything and use my talent and resources to live at a convent that had a working farm; to manage the farm for their needs. Recently that feeling came back again, out of no where - I am single - but I'm close to 70 years old, but in good health - so I'm guessing I would hire out most of the manual work (not a problem). But I have no idea how I would even find a convent that could use a manager. I have asked God - if this is coming from you, you're going to have to do the leg work and find this place - just point me in the right direction. :-)
Hello, get a good spiritual advisor and narrow it down if you call to be a Catholic Sister or a Nun. There's several communities that have no age limits now and if God calls you to be a religious it's never too late. I will keep you in my prayers. Sister Mary Frances Bard
@@myalabasternetwork3578 Thank you, Sister - God's blessings to you! :-) I have located a spiritual advisor and will do just that!
Hey ! What did you finally do?
@@cuhanc8642 I have been working with a spiritual advisor for about 8 months and it's been helpful on some levels. As I mentioned - I needed God to do the legwork if his direction for me is something larger (convent or something else life changing) but so far, I have not seen, heard, or felt anything pointing me in that direction - just yet. But I'm still listening. :-)
I am having the experiences in study that you are instructing. The Paraclete seems to whisper there's need to help The Catholic Church understand, adopt & evolve using the culture of Hip Hop to amplify the call! Why would we not? The Devil has been using music and winning souls with music since the fall and & then rise of Tubal Cain. Hip Hop has been the Devils victim for 50 years now. Hip Hop needs salvation. mercy and grace unto it's own tribe. In Christ Jesus name. Amen. 🙏🏻🕊💨🍃
#glorystory 4 Years ago I was a terrible drunk (was turned on at 9 years old.) I used to be covered from head to toe in plaque psoriasis. Pre-diabetic I was 98 pounds heavier. Suffered DT's, semi-wet brain symptoms, Several baby Mal, seizures, several minor heart infarctions, alcohol induced comatose, NDE....etc... plus my I'm an ex convict now due to my sin of drukardness.
I feel like I ignored the Call to the Priesthood and Religious Life. But thinking back now, we didn't have internet like we do now, or just not the people on CZcams that we do today. And I went to Catholic grammar school but don't feel I got educated enough in The Faith. Things were probably better in the 70s or earlier.
It’s starting to turn back around now, but yeah the last few generations it seems to have got worse and worse in that regard
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I’ve openly thought about it and both the Order of Friars Minor and the Diocese told me no, but I have both bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.
@@DiaryofaGrimReaper reported.
@@DiaryofaGrimReaper I originally just reported for spam. Now, I’m reporting for harassment.
Please tell me he has songs on Spotify? 🥹❤️
I pray to Jesus with the intercession of St. Dismas to send His angels to bring more souls to the gates of seminaries and convents.
YAYYYYYYYYYY
#AskFrJosh Peace be with you & God bless. I have felt the call to become a nun since age 19 and now I am 31. Wanting to become a nun helped me stay motivated in my university courses and it gave me a goal. Thinking of becoming one makes me feel lighter and happier. I am unsure if I want to become a nun because I fear the commitment of marriage. Sometimes I see it as a backup plan in case I am unmarried by age 37 or 39.
Go discern with a community. There you will see things more clearly but don't wait any longer. To me, just the fact that the "call" feeling has lasted for so many years, it has to be God pointing out something special for you. Don't wait any longer. Doubts that don't lead to a clear answer are nothing but confusion from the devil. Peace 🕊️ from 🇧🇷
@@erikamaria4889 I'm scared of what I would have to give up and if I'm holy enough
#askftjosh. Father I had a strange vision of me wearing the vestments of a catholic deacon. But when I looked up what it takes to be a deacon. I'm divorced. So what does this really mean. I've prayed over it. But have not seen an answer
Hmm, I used to work for a priest. He had two adult children, I think. I am pretty sure his story was he was divorced but he was in the process of becoming a permanent deacon when his ex-wife died. He had to immediately consider whether to continue with ordination because since he was suddenly no longer married he could only be ordained into the transitional deaconate with the intent to continue on to the priesthood. I think it's rare, but because of his story I think it's possible to become a deacon even if you're divorced. You may need to check with your local bishop or vocations director. There may also be other conditions such as the divorce being against the man's will through no fault of his own. In my diocese the discernment process into the permanent deaconate involves the whole family because usually a permanent deacon must be a good example of living out his marital vocation and fatherhood, but I could see an exception being made as long as he had done everything within his own power to do that. God bless your discernment process.
Im writing a "Catholic" answers essay with a Catholic priest associate.
It's my newest video as of right now.
#AskFrJosh #AskAscension As a follow-up question to this video-would you say those who have no natural inclination to marriage have no supernatural vocation either? A lot of the discernment materials I've read seem to start with the assumption that you want to get married and probably need to be convinced to consider religious life instead. But I've never been drawn to marriage or motherhood, and that leaves me feeling fundamentally broken.
I feel you! I've never been that attracted to marriage either but it kind of helped me to have a more "uninclined" view on both vocations. As I went deeper in prayer I began to see more the beauty of both calls and feel more exactly to which one God is pointing me. I think you should learn more about marriage and religious life, that will surely enrich your discerniment path.
Discerning a religious vocation isn't really about 'I don't feel drawn to marriage', but it's about 'Im DRAWN to religious life', or 'Im drawn to religious life MORE than marriage'.
The focus is not what you're _not_ attracted to, but what you are attracted to.
As for being drawn to marriage' despite having a religious vocation, yes and no - it depends. For some people they say they've always known or since childhood or adolescence or early adulthood and never really considered marriage because they knew they're called for. I know some young men like that, all in seminary. And then there's those who actually felt drawn to marriage', I know some who were discerning both and chose the seminary. I've even heard of few priests who were engaged to be married but then realized 'no that's not it.' So it really deoends, there's no size fits all. The common thing ia also that you are specifically drawn to that life, you're willfully choosing it. Not because someone else didn't work out, but because you want _it_
I gave examples with seminary, but it's the same with other religious vocations as well.
So the important thing is that you don't choose religious vocation because the only her options didn't work out or that you don't feel drawn to marriage but without anything else in that place.
You actually should be _capable_ (emotionally , spiritually) of being a good wife/husband, mother/husband in order to become religious, in a sense of having this kind of emotional maturity, sense of responsibility and care for others etc. Of course you may not want it (not wanting to be married) because you want to devote yourself solely and exclusively to Jesus, soul and body, but it's about being emotionally and spiritually capable and mature of building a relationship with other people.
Hope that helps.
I am currently studying at St Francis in Ohio /online taking Catholic Fundamentals class. The people in charge wanted to make us students take a Catechism test (thats not for a grade) without a study guide even though they have Catechism classes to take those test? They cut me off at question 26 out of 50 even though I was passing because it was timed ? I'm, starting think it's the university that is making us men that called to priesthood more difficult then it has to be?
#AskFrJosh You said a call to a vocation might just be that you can’t stop thinking about a particular vocation. I’ve wanted to get married since I was 2 years old and can’t stop thinking about it, but how am I supposed to tell the difference between if that’s a sign I’m called to marriage or if that’s a distraction and temptation to idolize marriage above God?
Same boat
Same boat I was thinking about marriage like crazy ever since 4 or 3 even though I was too young to be thinking that
Sorry for answering after a year:)
So marriage is a general and natural vocation. You don't particularly discern it. You discern the religious vocation, which is a supernatural vocation. So if you feel naturally inclinced to be married, and your life is getting into that direction, then you probably are.
Although even if you'd be called to religious life you might still have the inclination to the natural vocation of marriage - but don't worry, God would in this case make His call invitation and call known to you, and would make it clear enough for you to understand it and answer it (you're free to answer whatever you want, vocation is a gift, not an obligation).
So, no need to worry. Feeling an inclination to marriage isn't a temptation or anything like that, it's natural and normal. And if someone's called to something else, they won't be left guessing and in doubt, at least not for long, and they certainly would be feeling this inclination to this 'something else.'
Thank you! @@joane24
Why is it that i have a catholic priest for a godfather and he has impacted me better than anything or anyone? #ask fr josh
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I am in the ministry of vocation promotion. I have been journeying ladies who may be called to be religious sisters. But many of them, are seemingly 'burden' with the gift of Vocation. I'm puzzled how come this precious gift who came from God who is gracious can be burden to some. Why is this so? What can you recommend to me and others who are accompanying these ladies. Thanks and God bless you
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Maybe some of them see it as a burden because they don’t want to do it and are only there because they are struggling in dating? Im in that same boat as a guy, only thinking about priesthood or religious life because I havent had a single girlfriend at 25, that’s it. Nothing else. and I want to be a married man one day.
Maybe it's a burden because they don't feel worthy or ready...
I can think of a few in their pov
1. People may look down on them, especially friends family and society
2. Want to be in a relationship
3. It stop them from persuing their goal/dream (eg: nurse, engineer
4. Change of economic status from welthy or poor
5. Fear of wasting time, if eventually realised they are not called to be a priest. Wasted so many years
6. If i become a nun then left, basically i will become a joke and disgrace to my family my church.
7. "Being a nun is boring, praying 24 7 is boring" and to the young generation some have negative view to preist and nun due to last experienxe
I think celibacy would be the biggest source of feeling like it’s a burden. And then, depending on who your superior is, obedience. The challenge with religious life is that you are “stuck” with your community and if there are serious problems in the community it can create a really negative atmosphere.
A lot of young Catholics these days who are striving for holiness and sainthood mistakenly think that they are meant to be religious. This is because holiness and reverence has become so rare amongst the laity in the Novus Ordo church that people who are holy and reverent stand out and they think they must be somehow have a special calling. This is unfortunate really. Because the people are really just doing what they’re supposed to. Come to the Latin Mass! Everyone there is holy, reverent and striving to be saints. And the families have a ton of kids, that’s why there’s so many vocations from the Latin mass
Amen_Please praying for me?
I'm in the middle road of lives.
I don't even know whether God calls me? 😢Amen
#Askfr.Josh,when John the Baptist sent his disciples to ask weather "He was the promised one or we should wait for another one to come" and yet he had earlier baptized Jesus as the son of God,the promised Savior. What does that really mean?
#askfrjosh this is a good question
My priest in his homily said that John sent his disciples to Jesus so that they would confirm that Jesus is the Messiah. What Jesus respond to them is Isaiah's prophecy about what would happen when He come: the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise up again and the kingdom is preach to the poor. John was kind of directing his disciples to follow Christ, he was again pointing Him out as the Lamb of God
With all due respect to Father, St. Alphonsus (Doctor of Moral Theology) is very clear on the dancers of knowingly rejecting the call or delaying a response:
"It is evident that our eternal salvation depends principally upon the choice of our state of life. Father Granada calls this choice, the main wheel of our whole existence. If the principal wheel of a clock is deranged the whole clock is out of order. So it is with the business of our salvation; a mistake with regard to our state of life, says St. Gregory of Naziansen, will disturb our whole career.
If then, we wish to secure our eternal salvation, we must embrace that state of life to which God calls us, and in which alone, God prepares the efficacious means, necessary for salvation. St. Cyprian says: “The grace of the Holy Spirit is given according to the order of God, and not in accordance with our own will” (1) Therefore St Paul writes: “Everyone hath his proper gift from God” (2) This means as Cornelius a Lapide explains, that God gives to every one his vocation, and chooses the state in which He wills him to be saved. “Whom He predestinated, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified and them He also glorified.” (3)
There are many in the world today who give this doctrine of vocation little thought or consideration. They think it a matter of indifference whether they live in the state to which God calls them, or in that which they choose themselves. As a result we find so many leading wicked lives, and hurrying along the road to destruction."
This is not meant to unduly disturb, but it is worth listening to what great saints like St. Alphonsus say on this very important matter.
This is a great video but I honestly find it so distracting how often Father breaks out into song and I skipped over several parts for exactly that reason. Idk if anyone else felt similar.
I hear the call but have t found a priest who mentor me and guide me to the r priest hood
Does god force his will upon us ?? Does god force us to chose any vocation?
No. One of God's beauty is that He made us free. He calls us but He doesn't force us to answer. It wouldn't be love if we were being forced to love.
BTW Thanks for the video and teachings Father u a real one! 💯🤲🏻🚰🍞
"For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven."
- Matthew 22: 30
"For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For this reason the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law-indeed it cannot, and those who are in the flesh cannot please God."
- Romans 8: 5-8
"So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory."
- Colossians 3: 1-4
#glorystory part 2...I have been diagnosed bi-polar and given pills 💊. I still have to point out to the folks who support the DSM. Catholics are still going to Pray. Thru with and to. Believe in! The visible and invisible not matter what no damed DSM book and Big Phrama/Street have interest in. Now I just need to share my message of confess and repent thru Hip Hop... I'm almost sure of it. I need help with this topic in prayer 1st and please in real adult business life advice etc...too. I'm just in Love with King Yeshua and need to Rap it from the mountain tops! Amen. 🕊💨🍃
Both your mental and spiritual health are important. Yes, definitely keep praying. However, bipolar disorder can be dangerous and lead to suicide, so it's important to treat it if you really have it. Try to get a second opinion from a Catholic mental health professional, someone you can trust to disentangle mental health issues and at the same time support your spiritual life. If there aren't any Catholic counselors in your area, try looking up Dr. Greg Popcak. He and his team can provide Catholic mental health service long distance.
Can you be a near occasion of sin for yourself?
If I take holy communion under mortal sin is it forgiven?
No, mortal sin is not forgiven through Holy Communion. Sacramental confession is needed.
@@ircensko7324 Oh that makes since that is why I feel the way I feel regardless if I take holy communion thank you God bless you.
Receiving communion in mortal sin is the mortal sin of sacrilege
Only after confession.... There's nothing you've done a priest hasn't heard and God won't forgive is you truly want to change your ways and regret offending God. Please go as soon as you can...
The idea of becoming a mom was never attractive to me. When I was younger, I thought about becoming a nun, but I got pulled away to provide eldercare for my grandparents and my dad who all had health issues. After everyone passed away and all was over, I find myself a 39 year-old single woman. I thought that now's the time to find the significant other, but my mom tried to talk me out of dating and marriage, because she was afraid I'll fail marriage like her. So I recently left home I was living in with my mom, telling mom that I'm leaving to find a boyfriend.
Then I recently found out about consecrated virgins, and became worried that this might be something that God is calling me to be. Even though I am attracted to men, I can't fathom becoming so comfortable and enamored with someone to want to spend the rest of my life with him. I like having alone time. And I don't want to have kids. Wth.. if I become a consecrated virgin, how do I even explain that to others? Virginity is ridiculed in the secular world. I'm gonna be a laughingstock. I'm a 39-year old virgin.
I'm being called to do Catholic Hip Hop help?!
Go for it.
What has God done for me? He became one of us and died upon the cross for the forgiveness of sins and He risen on the third day so that we might share in His resurrection and be with Him in Heaven.
Many are called and few are chosen to the Hierarchical Priesthood. Like the would be Apostle the man that was told by our Lord to give up everything he owned and follow Him the man walked away sadly because he didn't want to give up his worldly possessions. This wasn't simply about discipleship it was being chosen by our Lord to bring the Gospel to the world as a leader of the Church an Apostle just like when Bishops are chosen.
People who are not called to religious life, and ignoring the call to surrender to Christ. Why would you say yes to the spouse God sends you, and wouldn't you be more likely to reject them, if you won't say yes to Him first?
Seen it over and over again. Finally surrendering, planning on visiting Covents and monestaries, dating the Lord....and God says no, thank you for finally saying yes, here is the person I have designed for you!
I have no desire to enter seminary and monastery whatsoever. I’m trying to find my first girlfriend ever at 25 and that is failing and I’m only considering priesthood or religious life only because of my dating struggles. Thats it, no other reasons. this has only been happening for the last year.
@@Ulfrich_Stormcock I knew I wasn't called. I surrendered anyway. planned on paying off debt and visiting and going on retreats. Surrender. I didn't feel the call. Which isn't the point. The point is, I was willing to do whatever God called me to do.
I chose to say yes to God, and He said thank you, here is your spouse.
you don't go to Monestary because you've lost something.
You go because you've found something. Even if it was just surrender.
Start with retreats and visits.
Dating God is a life long process for everyone, but religious have a 6 year dating process, 1 year engagement, before the vows. Men and women get married to save their souls. It is the reason any different for priest or nun?
Have you done the 33 Days to Morning Glory?
@@rebn8346 no, I havent done any of that and I don’t think I can because I start Substitue teaching soon and I am on the career path as a history teacher. Military history is my passion and possibly my God given talent and gift that I can talk about for hours and I want to teach it. I don’t think I could best use those talents and gifts as a priest or monk, I want to be a married teacher. The problem is that no matter how much I pray and work, women dont seem to like me back that way, and it causes a lot of anguish and despair. I want to serve God by being that loving and providing family man, and sharing myself with someone who I will love unconditionally and she loves me back, but I’m convinced in the most despairing way possible, that woman doesn’t exist. So based on that, what do you think God is calling me to?
@@rebn8346 do you have an answer for what I just replied?
@@Ulfrich_StormcockIt may seem you're quite old for that.... But take a deep breath and be patient. Ask our Lady.... If religious vocation is not for you, it's not for you.... Don't lose you your peace.... Ask God for patience
Excuse me, Sister Act is a sacrilegious movie that did a lot of damage to the faith.
#AskFrJosh What does it mean when you see the lady of Guadalupe everywhere?
I am a Catholic and a Sister today because of a prayers to a great mother ,Our Lady of Guadalupe. Seeing her might mean you need to be quiet do less talking and more praying. Is true you hear God in the silence. But we're the ones that have to slow down. I will keep you in prayer. From Sister Mary Francis Bard.
It may mean that you are blessed to live in an area where many people have a special devotion to her.
@/askascension You are all priests, can you at the end of each video give a blessing of your choice like "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit, Amen and also with you. and for the viewers and the Father - example the listeners James 4:7 Pray: Lord Jesus I ask you to come into my heart and take over my life. Forgive me my sins. Deepen my relationship with your Holy Spirit and release in me all the gifts of your Holy Spirit, so that I may be the person that you called me to be and God the Father may thereby be glorified. and include a prayer for the priest. If Father Mike can include a prayer for himself. BIAY and the listeners it would be in case anyone forgets to do it and he asks everyone to Pray it with him right then would be a million prayers. Everyone do it together, there is more power in that. Basically a prayer at the end that everyone can say and it is for the viewer and the priests and the program
You cannot ignore a call from a god that is nonexistent! Be truthful and admit this. If you truly want to help people then become a teacher or a social worker. I wish all of you the best.
What I wonder about are women who would get a call to become priests but because of some nonsense rules they are generally prevented from doing so. There are women Catholic priests but one hears little of them.
Jesus instituted priesthood among men, it was among men He lived. God invites women to mirror the Blessed Virgin. God invites men to mirror the Lord. Men are called to be leaders and this in no way degrades women. Women are called for sustenance and nourishment of life. A father is different from a mother. One cannot be the other. A father cannot play the role of a mother, and vice versa. A father is feared by the child and is responsible for in disciplining the child. A mother is responsible tor nurturing the child in care and love. For a family, the Bible tells us that the husband submits to the mind of Christ and the wife submits to the mind of the husband, NOT the mind of Christ (see 1 Cor 11:3). And another passage to ponder on would be Eph 5:22-33. It shows how the responsibilities of a man and a woman complement each other. They are not in competition! Christ loves the church as a groom loves his bride. And the church being the bride of Christ is loved by priests who head the church.
those "nonsense" rules were established by Christ himself, check your pride homie
This priest tries to be way too "cool" hip and relevant.
This priest is cool, hip, and relevant.