NihilNominis
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Brothers, when shall we begin to do good?
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« on: June 25, 2012, 11:24:AM » |
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I am to make a visit to a religious house over the next week. The project is ambitious: I intend to come to a decision about whether to enter that house and about my state in life. They are Oratorians, so the good news is that, no matter my final decision, I can still (as I have been) be attached to the Little Oratory. My heart's quite in two places. I at least think I am drawn to religion (one point of this visit is to find out whether that is so by gaining concrete experience of it), and I certainly love and want to help this Oratory in its apostolic work, and there is a wonderful, holy, sweet girl, a very good friend, that, if I knew I should marry, I would gladly marry to-morrow. So, I need prayers. Prayers. Please!  |
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Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia:
Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, laudate eum omnes populi:
quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia ejus,
et veritas Domini manet in aeternum.
Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto:
sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
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JayneK
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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2012, 11:28:AM » |
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Oratorians have been very influential in my life.  |
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ADORABLE Saviour, consider my many wants, and grant me those graces which Thou knowest I stand in need of to do Thy will in all things.
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2012, 03:25:PM » |
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E 'n la sua volontade è nostra pace.
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2012, 05:00:PM » |
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Don't do it. You will be placing yourself in the position of becoming personally accountable for the salvation of hundreds (thousands maybe) of souls. And if you are condemned, you will still be a priest in hell, making your torments all the worse.
I have been reading up on St. John Vianney lately and he absolutely lived in complete terror of this. He even said that if you could actually see just one soul attached to mortal sin, you would die of fear!
I'm convinced that to be a priest you either have to 1) Ignorant of what that means or 2) Utterly fearless (Deo gratias)
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Remember, sometimes when you ask "WWJD?", the answer will be "Knock over all the tables and trash the joint!"
“Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....”
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2012, 11:08:PM » |
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“I think hell's a fable” and Mephistopheles responds: “Ay, think so still—until experience change thy mind”
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Fortitudo et laetitia
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« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2012, 10:07:AM » |
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Be good.
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Leo volo essem
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« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2012, 08:02:PM » |
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"Tradition cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labor." -- T.S. Eliot "The Catholic Church is the only thing which saves a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age." -- G. K. Chesterton "The Catholic priest is simultaneously the victim offered on the altar. All the older, traditional ceremonies of the Roman Rite underscore this foundational dimension of the Mass. If we don’t see that relationship of priest, altar, and victim in every Holy Mass, then the way Mass has been celebrated has failed. If we don’t look for that relationship, then we are not really Catholic. Mass is Calvary." -- Fr. John Zuhlsdorf Member of the Confraternity of the Holy Rosary: http://rosaryconfraternity.org/ |
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NihilNominis
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Brothers, when shall we begin to do good?
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« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2012, 12:44:AM » |
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Thanks for the prayers. I go in tomorrow.
Allan,
I am quite aware what the priesthood means, but surely God doesn't mean by those facts to keep it empty? If the priest "risks damnation," as you seem to think he does, doesn't he all the more place other souls at risk of salvation which would otherwise be lost? And if he see this as his primary duty, to save those souls in his charge, and should devote his whole priesthood to that goal, would God then damn him for doing all he could to carry out his duty?
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Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia:
Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, laudate eum omnes populi:
quoniam confirmata est super nos misericordia ejus,
et veritas Domini manet in aeternum.
Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto:
sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
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Allan
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« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2012, 05:22:AM » |
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Thanks for the prayers. I go in tomorrow.
Allan,
I am quite aware what the priesthood means, but surely God doesn't mean by those facts to keep it empty? If the priest "risks damnation," as you seem to think he does, doesn't he all the more place other souls at risk of salvation which would otherwise be lost? And if he see this as his primary duty, to save those souls in his charge, and should devote his whole priesthood to that goal, would God then damn him for doing all he could to carry out his duty?
Excellent questions for the seminary! Please recognize a certain amount of tongue in cheek in my response. It is probably a good thing that yong men not allow fear to keep them their vocations. Good luck! |
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Remember, sometimes when you ask "WWJD?", the answer will be "Knock over all the tables and trash the joint!"
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