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Offline tradlover

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« on: October 02, 2011, 07:01:23 PM »
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  • should one wait untill their late 20s to enter a seminary if they have a vocation?

    Is the restriction on admitting seminarians after 35 still in effect? If so or not why?

     Why such a restriction?


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    « Reply #1 on: October 02, 2011, 08:08:05 PM »
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  • You can't know if you have a vocation until you enter the seminary, so if you are mature enough then you could enter a seminary when you are 18.

    If you came late to tradition or just recently found a spiritual director, you may want to get a college degree (if you are already in college, or planning on going into one) first, just in case you are not called to the priesthood you have a degree to fall back onto when you return to the world. Going to college and maturing spiritually under a priest's guidance are not mutually exclusive. For some, it may be a good experience; for others, it may be better to enter the seminary immediately.





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    « Reply #2 on: October 02, 2011, 08:32:46 PM »
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  • Exactly.  The seminary is a place to discern whether or not you have a vocation.  It is fine to go to seminary without being sure.  If you go and discover that you definitely do not have a vocation to the priesthood, seminary still worked.
    Stir up within Thy Church, we beseech Thee, O Lord, the Spirit with which blessed Josaphat, Thy Martyr and Bishop, was filled, when he laid down his life for his sheep: so that, through his intercession, we too may be moved and strengthen by the same Spir