infinitelord1 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 [size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]It seems ever since I have been going to Mass on a regular basis, the idea of me and the priesthood is being annoyingly spammed. I have also seen evidence of people "emasculating" other people so that they will become a priest. I vow to never become a priest. I would kill either myself or someone else before doing so. Let me show you what the Catholic Churches teaching is on forced priesthood...[/font][/size] Can. 1026 For a person to be ordained, he must enjoy the requisite freedom. It is absolutely wrong to compel anyone, in any way or for any reason whatsoever, to receive orders, or to turn away from orders anyone who is canonically suitable. [size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]If you are participating in this sort of action, then it would be better if you confessed this sin with intent to never do this again. If you are doing this, then you now know it is a sin, and if you are withholding this sin from your confessions, then your confessions are invalid.[/font][/size] [size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Thanks and have a great day. Just a few more things and I will never return to this website again.[/font][/size] [size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]More to follow.[/font][/size] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 I think part of the problem is that people are so concerned for vocations, that they feel it is a duty to remind single young men that they should consider the priesthood. Sometimes not even the single ones; when I was dating my ex, I had a Salesian and a Franciscan both bring up the priesthood to me as something I needed to consider. Every priest who finds out I'm single and sees me being respectful at Mass makes a similar suggestion; but having discerned, I believe I am indeed called to marriage. I agree with you completely that "forcing" someone to become a priest is not going to lead to a fruitful vocation. The priesthood, like marriage, has to be entered willingly; just as you pointed out by quoting the Catechism. I don't claim to know what people have been saying to you to compel you to post this so angrily, but I'm sorry that they have been, and you have my prayers. Prayers that don't ask for you to be called to the priesthood, but to find an apparently needed peace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 (edited) being a single man that finds himself in a church lots of times It's not uncommon for me to come across people that express their wishes for me to seek the priesthood, ask if I'm thinking about the priesthood or tell me that I would make a good priest (these people usually don't know me so I scratch my head at that). Nothing the cry about there. As for being forced, me thinks there is some hyperbole is at hand. Edited August 6, 2012 by Maximilianus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arfink Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 Yeah, calling that "forcing" someone into priesthood is insane. Even if the young man in question did suddenly feel compelled to join a seminary after such cajoling by the old ladies at the parish, he'd still have to make it through 8 whole years of seminary before he would be a priest. And at seminary they definitely don't just tell guys "You cannot leave! You must be a priest! We need you so badly!" It's usually more like "Well, we do need priests, but only good ones who really know what they are getting into. So if you don't think you really want to be here you better get out now!" And I would know, I went to a seminary! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinitelord1 Posted August 6, 2012 Author Share Posted August 6, 2012 [quote name='arfink' timestamp='1344285987' post='2463558'] Yeah, calling that "forcing" someone into priesthood is insane. Even if the young man in question did suddenly feel compelled to join a seminary after such cajoling by the old ladies at the parish, he'd still have to make it through 8 whole years of seminary before he would be a priest. And at seminary they definitely don't just tell guys "You cannot leave! You must be a priest! We need you so badly!" It's usually more like "Well, we do need priests, but only good ones who really know what they are getting into. So if you don't think you really want to be here you better get out now!" And I would know, I went to a seminary! [/quote] Yeah thats not really forced per say. But if an individual is manipulated/forced in any way then it is wrong. It has been known to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmom Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 [quote name='infinitelord1' timestamp='1344284297' post='2463546'][size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Just a few more things and I will never return to this website again.[/font][/size] [size=3][font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif]More to follow.[/font][/size] [/quote] How can both of these statements be true? As for the rest of your post, I have no idea what in the world you are talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socrates Posted August 6, 2012 Share Posted August 6, 2012 [quote name='arfink' timestamp='1344285987' post='2463558'] Yeah, calling that "forcing" someone into priesthood is insane. Even if the young man in question did suddenly feel compelled to join a seminary after such cajoling by the old ladies at the parish, he'd still have to make it through 8 whole years of seminary before he would be a priest. And at seminary they definitely don't just tell guys "You cannot leave! You must be a priest! We need you so badly!" It's usually more like "Well, we do need priests, but only good ones who really know what they are getting into. So if you don't think you really want to be here you better get out now!" And I would know, I went to a seminary! [/quote] True. Most of the guys I know who went into seminary (and gals who went into the convent) were dismissed as not having a vocation. The Church most certainly does not force people into the priesthood. And, infinitedude, I seriously doubt anyone put a gun to your head and forced you into a seminary. Encouraging one to consider the priesthood is not the same as forcing you into the priesthood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 If by "forced into the priesthood", you mean "rejected for compulsive[mod] holy croutons, dude--budge[/mod]", then your experience is probably true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 [quote name='arfink' timestamp='1344285987' post='2463558'] [s]Yeah, calling that "forcing" someone into priesthood is[/s] insane. [s]Even if the young man in question did suddenly feel compelled to join a seminary after such cajoling by the old ladies at the parish, he'd still have to make it through 8 whole years of seminary before he would be a priest. And at seminary they definitely don't just tell guys "You cannot leave! You must be a priest! We need you so badly!" It's usually more like "Well, we do need priests, but only good ones who really know what they are getting into. So if you don't think you really want to be here you better get out now!" And I would know, I went to a seminary![/s] [/quote] fxd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norseman82 Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Are you trying to say you are being "nagged"? I've had my pastor and others at the parish encourage me to conider priesthood; after I say "if I knew I could handle lifelong celibacy, there's a chance I'd already be wearing a collar" they don't bring up the subject again. Funny story: yeaterday, at the Theology-on-Tap reception, a priest classmate of mine asked if I knew the sister who was head of the archdiocesan school system. My reply: "Tom, if you want to introduce me to women, please make sure thay are not married or nuns." He laughed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionseeker Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 LMAO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 [quote name='Norseman82' timestamp='1344303141' post='2463720'] Are you trying to say you are being "nagged"? I've had my pastor and others at the parish encourage me to conider priesthood; after I say "if I knew I could handle lifelong celibacy, there's a chance I'd already be wearing a collar" they don't bring up the subject again. Funny story: yeaterday, at the Theology-on-Tap reception, a priest classmate of mine asked if I knew the sister who was head of the archdiocesan school system. My reply: "Tom, if you want to introduce me to women, please make sure thay are[s] not married or nuns[/s] unbelievably desparate. Like Helen Keller, but with super aids, BO, and halitosis." He laughed. [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Sometimes when I go to the store a chicken will roost itself under my rooftop of my mouth but then I'm called forth to the cashier but you don't have any money and so you walk away but that chicken is still there and he burrows down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down and downdown and down and down and down and down and down and down and down and down until he kind of grates against you belly but there ain't no pepto-bismal for that haha lol just kidding but seriously dude I know what you mean because people try to force me into the Priesthood too but it's kind of like the way that damned chicken keeps burrowing deeper and deeper down into my belly just forcing itself in and CONSTANTLY IMPOSING ITSELF ON MY PERSON in the absolutely MOST INCONVENIENT WAY POSSIBLE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Vega Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 Is it a warnable offense to call someone a goofyass? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotpink Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 i think you must go to an Italian parish. Man, those ladies are scarry. I'm not even Catholic and they wanted me to be a priest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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