Priests Offer Advice for Those Considering the Priesthood

Priests from the Archdiocese of Perth offer advice for those considering the priesthood.

[Korpsman]

Please, include me in your prayers, for I'm about to say, "yes." :)

[rannyarteta]

I'm not even sure now how many times I watched this video. Thank you to the priests in this vid for giving me motivation and inspiration to say yes to the priesthood. Hopefully, priesthood is really my vocation. May God bless you all!

[christ_mark]

Please pray for my calling, I am still in high school and I first need to get through it ❤ but I know God is with me and thank you for this video it really encouraged me ❤😊

[jaredhernandez]

This Video Is Gold, precious, a gift from God, praise God

[templarknight]

Im thinking of becoming one. I feel the call in my heart

[opiopeter]

Pray for me I have applied for missionary congregation

[anmolpeter-ec]

This video give me motivation really god is calling me not today but everyday i Heard his voice in my ears ❤

[rasiosabiso]

I am inspired for the advise of these inspiring Priest so I would like to share humbly the result of my meditation pertaining to my vocation while disposing myself in the season of lent.

In doing meditation during the lent, I feel deep shame before God because of my sinfulness and weaknesses. And mindful for this, I feel I am not worthy to become a priest. But as I felt a deep shame, the feeling of being called by God to do something extra ordinary keeps on reverberating. I constantly feel deep within my heart being pushed to pursue my vocation despite my unworthiness.

The Enhanced Community Quarantine period and Lenten season became a very significant moment of my life that which raised the level of my awareness regarding the call of God for me to become His holy priest. While staying indoors because of the corona virus pandemic, I continue to pray and even participate daily in the live stream masses. In my prayer, disposition in the mass, reading the Bible, daydreaming, imagination and reminiscing my past experiences I find myself coming back to the ideas about the diocesan priesthood. Whenever I think of worldly pleasure, there is this tiny voice in my heart that keeps on hindering me. The tiny voice trying to dampen me from my worldly desire.

Much more when I meet and know new priests and upon hearing at their calling to the priesthood, and faithfully gazing them celebrating the Holy Eucharist and performing other sacraments, I am used to be inspired and feel their enigmatic grace. I have an attraction to something they have represent. I am also attracted to many of the things that are involved in their life as priest. I can see that they live a life worth living. Hence, constantly, my heart is longing to be like them and wishing to die as Holy, Eucharistic, Marian and Virtuous priest.

Given this unparalleled time that we are in because of this corona virus pandemic, my awareness and deep feeling of being called by God to priesthood is all the more getting deeper. Honestly, before this pandemic happened, there are experiences I have been through which brought me to apprehend that priestly life is worth dying for. Priestly life is the kind of life that God wanted me to be. Though this vocation is not my primary and greatest dream in my life but steadily it becomes my desire which over time get stronger and continue to persist. I said so, because God continuously speaking to me to pursue this kind of vocation through the encouraging words and inspiration of my friends, neighbors, my family (especially to my dying father before he was comatose), and to some circumstances of my life.

Hence, with all honesty and sincerity, I am strongly inspired and determined to take the new challenges of my life in the foreign Diocese accepting foreign seminarian. So to speak, my desire and willingness to serve in the foreign Diocese is highly motivated for my unfathomable love for God and my loving service to the Church around the world. My heart is aching as I made the decision to leave my country, my hometown, and my family. But because I really want to respond to God’s invitation for me, then, the sorrow and pain of being separated from my family will be put aside for the greater glory of God. Yes, I have the courage and valiant spirit to take whatever difficult challenges in the formation. In fact, I have the willingness to take the risk in getting there somewhere in the foreign land for I have entrusted completely my whole life in God. Yes, it is possible to serve God like many holy lay-people but it is not enough for me just to be like them. I desire to win souls, continue the mission of Jesus Christ, proclaim the Gospel, inspire people to love the Eucharist and do such things such as performing sacraments that only priest can do.
To all the people who have profound love for vocation to priesthood, I humbly appeal for prayer, guidance and support for the fulfillment and fruitfulness of my toughest decision to pursue my vocation in the foreign land. It is a great challenge for me to be far from my family but I believe it is what I ought to do. By hook or by crook, it is the best way to inspire and motivate me to set free myself and have focus in my formation.

To end, I do hope and pray that the powerful WILL of God be done unto me. May our Blessed Virgin Mary-the Perpetual Mother of vocation intercedes for me and the other seminarians. May the Holy Spirit enlighten my mind with true wisdom and my heart with love, humility, perseverance and other virtues. And may our Lord Jesus Christ continue to guide and lead me in the right path.

My sincere thanks to all the priests who inspired me.

Thank you. God Bless.

You can message me in my FB account: Rasios Nomis

[itv-wzrb]

Thank you sooo much, you truly dont understand how much this helped.

Please pray for my vocation and may He who calls me will give me those things that I need to respond to that call. I really need your prayers on this. Thank you!

[bencanevari]

Will everyone who sees this comment please pray for me? I have a desire to serve Him as a priest, but I'm terrified to say yes because right now I'm in a difficult place in my life.

[helencastelino]

I pray for all men, women, boys, girls who God almighty, holy spirit, Jesus calling for vocation. And rest others calling for family life. God bless both vocation people and family people. Love you God and Trinity.

[texmex]

I’m praying for the answer to a possible calling

[ekuanthony]

Please pray for me ..I am just about to make my decision

[mauricioduran]

What do you have to lose?

The Lord uplifts the humble and makes them instruments of His peace. Take courage, have faith!

Vivat Jesus

[louispitagno]

I have felt the call for a while now, but im in a very difficult moment in life...feeling trapped. Please pray for me. That His will be done

[benedward]

I think God is calling me I should have a courage to become a priesthood..But i was drop out from college..So please pray for me

[stratliddiard]

I think I am being called but I am old and unsure if I can serve God and Jesus in this way.. I feel inadequate and scared but the pull is great.

[v-veritas]

I hope God knows what He's doing after He called me... xD

I witnessed God calling me three times in one single occasion, just like He asked Peter the apostole: “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”
God only wants me to say: “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”

[ntokozonxumalo]

01:00 he was like he is talking to me. I going next year although am scared.