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25th April 2005, 12:18 PM
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Timothy
I've looked into the RC faith and have found out that it has a lot in common with the Orthodox Church and actually seemed more correct than the Orthodox Church. I also believe that they are the correct in their beliefs.  Please pray that God will work out a way for me to attend. 
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25th April 2005, 05:14 PM
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25th April 2005, 05:21 PM
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25th April 2005, 06:53 PM
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And with your spirit.
Originally Posted by benedictine Are there any local RC parishes?
Yes there are, and one of them has Charismatic prayer meetings on wednesday. Please pray that my parents will allow me attend.
Originally Posted by benedictine Just wondering, since I myself have thought of the religious life, what influenced your decuision on the pairticular group of Friars?
I've, pretty early in life, always wanted to give all that I own and serve God, and help the poor.
What lead me to a particular group... I was in a hotel lobby waiting for my little brothers to finish eating breakfast. The TV the news was covering on the people paying their last respects to Pope John Paul II. They showed three Franciscan Friars who waited about 20 hours to pay their last respects. I thought that it was neat that they would wait in line all day and all night and some of the next day just to pay their respects to Pope John Paul II.
The day Pope Benedict XVI was elected to be Pope, I read an OBOB thread on holy orders. One person posted a link to The Community of Franciscan Friars of the Renewal (CRF) website. Remembering the Franciscan Friars I saw on the news, I checked out the site and immediately I felt drawn to be a Friar. I read the CRF constitutions which lists the 163 rules of their Order, and now I'm 90% sure that I'm going to become a Friar and maybe, later in life, become a Friar Priest.
Dominus vobiscum, Freak4JC
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25th April 2005, 07:08 PM
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Reps: 1,488,634,097,029 (power: 1,488,634,106) | | | Freak4JC, I'll give you the same advice I gave Benedictine in this thread. You're 17. I admire you for having such lofty goals at that age. I'm now 34 (17 is 1/2 my life ago - that's scary!) and I am just now figuring out what I want to do when I grow up! In 1987, when I was 17, I was listening to Whitesnake and trying to figure out how to get a date. I didn't have a clue that in 5 years I would be married and in law school, and in 17 years, I would be taking seminary classes.
Nevertheless, no matter how mature you are or how certain you feel you are about your goals, don't get too excited about your vocational calling yet. Live your life for awhile. Go to college, take some of the classes that we discussed earlier, make friends, have fun. If you still feel the same way after doing that, you will know that it is what you are supposed to do. |
25th April 2005, 07:55 PM
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Reps: 2,383,688,915,602,883 (power: 2,383,688,915,620) | | Originally Posted by IowaLutheran Freak4JC, I'll give you the same advice I gave Benedictine in this thread. You're 17. I admire you for having such lofty goals at that age. I'm now 34 (17 is 1/2 my life ago - that's scary!) and I am just now figuring out what I want to do when I grow up! In 1987, when I was 17, I was listening to Whitesnake and trying to figure out how to get a date. I didn't have a clue that in 5 years I would be married and in law school, and in 17 years, I would be taking seminary classes.
Nevertheless, no matter how mature you are or how certain you feel you are about your goals, don't get too excited about your vocational calling yet. Live your life for awhile. Go to college, take some of the classes that we discussed earlier, make friends, have fun. If you still feel the same way after doing that, you will know that it is what you are supposed to do.
I think that's true to extent, and though i have no intent to debate in this thread God does call of us at his (and our own) unique time. There is undoubtedly a need for young people to become Priets, monks and everything else in the church at this time. The church desperately needs young people to become Priests (in part to bring the young back to the church (there was a report six months ago in the Church of England newspaper that the average age of Priests in the COFE is over 45)).
We of course need to be cautious not to confuse ambition with Gods calling , but when that call does come we each need to personally respond to it, and dedicate our lives to our Fathers desire for our own life.
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Amen. "Thus abundantly hath the Church of England vindicated her reformation from all pretence of apostasy from the true, ancient Catholic and Apostolic Church...No new Church was set up; no new articles of faith brought in; no new Sacraments; no new order of Priesthood to minister in holy things... only the old were purged from impurities in doctrine, worship and practice. If we were the Catholic Church before, we are still so, and to better purpose."
William Cave, The Unity of the Catholic Church maintained in the Church of England
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25th April 2005, 08:14 PM
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While I've been 17 I've, just because it's my favorite thing to do, been reading just about every normal English Bible translation that exists, the Tridentine Missal, the Norvus Ordo Missal, the Divine Liturgy's of St. John Chrysostom, the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great, the Divine Liturgy of the Pre-sanctified Gifts, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Lutheran Book of Worship, the Jewish Siddur. I've learned so much about the Orthodox, Anglican, Messianic Jewish, and Charismatic Churches that I could fake out that I belonged to one of them.
I've never cared to just sit back and enjoy a normal life. I don't like the things that a normal teen likes. I've yet to find anyone that loves the liturgy so much as to read it for the sheer joy of it. I don't want to wait around enjoying myself for 5 years, 10 years, ect, before I give my all to work for the Lord. Their have been people before that have, at a young age, served the Lord. St. Anthony, at 15 years of age, forfeited his inheritance to become a priest. At 25 he became a Franciscan Friar.
Thank you for caring but God calls different people to do different things at different ages of their life. Some people start younger and others older, it depends on God.
Dominus vobiscum, Freak4JC
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25th April 2005, 08:58 PM
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I don't want to wait around enjoying myself for 5 years, 10 years, ect, before I give my all to work for the Lord.
Nor should you. I was simply cautioning you that before you decide for sure that you are called to lead a celibate, monastic life, you should put some more life experience under your belt. You can give your all to work for the Lord now without making those final decisions that will affect the rest of your life.
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25th April 2005, 09:19 PM
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Actually Monks stay in a monastery and live a monastic life. Friars live in a friary and do works outside the friary.
Originally Posted by IowaLutheran you should put some more life experience under your belt. You can give your all to work for the Lord now without making those final decisions that will affect the rest of your life.
Thank you for your advice, but I don't need to watch tv, date girls, and go to parties before I make my decision. If I go to college I'll have to deal with schoolwork and immorality. I'll have to pay off my debt before becoming a Friar (Frairs aren't allowed to have money). I'll have to get a good job to pay my debt, apartment rent, food, gasoline, ect. The main point of attending college is to get a job that makes more money (my parents agree with me), but as a Friar I won't be allowed to have money. For anyone who says that one attends college for an education, remember that St. Peter was an unlearned fisherman.
Dominus vobiscum, Freak4JC
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25th April 2005, 11:42 PM
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Reps: 1,488,634,097,029 (power: 1,488,634,106) | | Originally Posted by Freak4JC Thank you for your advice, but I don't need to watch tv, date girls, and go to parties before I make my decision.
Dominus vobiscum, Freak4JC
That's not exactly the life experience I was thinking of, but I can tell that you have thought a lot about this and you are mature beyond your years.
Again, I hope you did not take offense at my advice - I am simply relaying to you the spirit of what the ELCA candidacy committee told me when I applied, and according to my sister-in-law (who is 32) it is consistent with what the Benedictine convent told her when they told her to wait a year before entering.
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