Cara Study: Abundance Of Potential Priests And Nuns

[DameAgnes]

[b] CARA Study Finds Abundance of Potential Priests and Sisters [size=2](1747)[/size][/b]

[b] Released today, the study's statistics show that 600,000 never-married Catholics are serious about religious vocations.[/b]

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[arfink]

LOL, I'm surprised it took them this long to figure it out.

Now they just need to find a way to reap that harvest. Hint: the seminaries need to get bigger.

[Groo the Wanderer]

[quote name='arfink' timestamp='1349843359' post='2491859']
LOL, I'm surprised it took them this long to figure it out.

Now they just need to find a way to reap that harvest. Hint: the seminaries need to get [s]bigger[/s]. more orthodox
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[arfink]

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All the good ones have run out of space and money. I would know, I went to an orthodox seminary.

[i<3franciscans]

My diocese doesn't even have a seminary so we have to ship our seminarians out...

[Groo the Wanderer]

such nice problems to have huh? too many seminarians for the space...

:happydance:

[arfink]

It's a nice problem to have until you realise you're leaving God's harvest in the fields to rot because you can't be bothered to come up with a proper training program for all the young men who want in.

[Nihil Obstat]

Only the good ones are full. We need all of them to be good ones.

[tinytherese]

And people say that there's a vocations crisis. At my university during the prayer intentions, one of the intentions is for more vocations. Well, from this we can see that contrary to popular belief, plenty of people are interested or at least curious. I also keep thinking of what a peer of mine said, that the problem isn't that God isn't calling people, but that not everyone is responding to the call. A more accurate prayer intention would be to pray for an adequate response to vocations.

[tinytherese]

[quote name='tinytherese' timestamp='1349996568' post='2492495']
And people say that there's a vocations crisis. At my university during the prayer intentions, one of the intentions is for more vocations. Well, from this we can see that contrary to popular belief, plenty of people are interested or at least curious. I also keep thinking of what a peer of mine said, that the problem isn't that God isn't calling people, but that not everyone is responding to the call. A more accurate prayer intention would be to pray for an adequate response to vocations.
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Somehow my post reminded me of this, guilt tripping and pressuring people into vocations. "Bring out your vocations!" Please note that there's a little language.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs[/media]

Edited October 12, 2012 by tinytherese

[Norseman82]

[quote name='arfink' timestamp='1349881942' post='2491929']

All the good ones have run out of space and money. I would know, I went to an orthodox seminary.
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Curious - why did you leave?

[Groo the Wanderer]

many folks entering seminary do not get ordained. that is how the process of discernment works. seminary is not just for formation of priests, but also for discernment whether the seminarians have actually received a call. i doubt arf was tossed out for refusing to wear the cassock or for setting fire to the sacristy with his laser

[ChristinaTherese]

[quote name='Norseman82' timestamp='1350189657' post='2493226']
Curious - why did you leave?
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He actually just told the story of his time in seminary over in the Vocation Station. You can read it here: [url="http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/124300-a-seminary-story/"]http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/topic/124300-a-seminary-story/[/url]