How to become a Catholic priest

I know what you're thinking: "How can a man be single for the rest of his
life? "I will deal with this blatant pleasure concern, but first listen to
me.
The Church needs male leaders. Too many priests are low, cuckolds, beta
males (and some are child molesters). This is in stark contrast as St. Jean
de Brebeuf, who withstood harsh winters, the months-long canoe trips, and
torture, exhausting, historical martyrs of the Church to spread the Gospel
in Canada. Masculinity reflects own human nature of Jesus Christ and God
the Father patriarchal attributes.

The celibacy issue is important: we men are wired to spread our seed. This
question can be approached in two ways. First, after sowing your wild oats,
and was full of hedonistic game, you can join the priesthood; fornication
does not give lasting satisfaction, after all, and the marriage is a rigged
lottery. Indeed, the skills you learn by playing practice will be useful to
the Church.
Second, consider joining an Eastern Catholic Church allows the ordination
after marriage & # 8211; the downside is that you must be fluent in
Ukrainian, Greek, Arabic, or another language. In this article, however, I
will confine my attention to the Church of Rome.

There are general requirements: you must be Catholic, unmarried, and men.
The Church often pays for your training, after which you reach a bachelor's
degree in theology or philosophy. , You are eventually ordained, solemn
vows. This gives you the power, through Christ, to perform the sacraments:
baptism, confirmation, reconciliation, marriage and anointing of the sick.
After that, your bishop or higher may decide that you need education
further, send you to get a degree or a Masters PhD.
You have to decide to become a diocesan priest or join a religious order.
In the first case, simply to make vows of chastity and obedience & # 8211;
and a diocesan priest (secular) can own property and start a business.
However, you are usually limited to a single geographical area, making it
difficult to move.
The religious orders, on the other hand, may ask you to pledge as poverty,
which means that you can not own property, apart from simple personal items
such as a toothbrush. The advantage is that you live in a male-minded
community and can travel or have other careers: teaching, research,
medicine, etc. Each order has its own spirituality, and should discern it
before you commit.
There is, perhaps, hundreds of religious orders to choose from. In what
follows, I give a summary of some notable.
the Jesuits

Founded in 1540 by former soldier St. Ignatius of Loyola, the Society of
Jesus is the most popular Catholic order. In addition to the vows of
poverty, chastity and obedience, Jesuits make a special vow of obedience to
the pope. Historically, the Jesuits were an important part of the
Counter-Reformation and Vatican.
The heart of the order is Ignatian spirituality, which requires you
to "find God in all things. "Ignatius, military, understood the importance
of exercise, and therefore made a series of spiritual exercises for the
Jesuits men to follow. These exercises are performed in a silent retreat of
30 days.
Jesuits have a reputation for liberal theology and politics, but there were
conservative Jesuits, as Cardinal Dulles. The order does not allow
monasticism, since it requires that the Jesuits are active in the community.
Franciscan

"Franciscan" is not an order as such, since it encompasses several orders,
like the Franciscans, St. Clair, etc. However, these commands all adhere to
Franciscan spirituality.
St. Francis of Assisi, after this spirituality is named, was a medieval
Italian monk who was a hippy, living in the desert, preaching to the birds,
and conversing with flowers. During the fifth crusade, he tried to convert
a Muslim sultan of Egypt, without success. Franciscans carry on the spirit
of St. Francis, find harmony in nature, wearing the monk's habit, and
ministry to the community.
Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter

The Fraternalitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri (FSSP) is a traditionalist
order, which went from a gap between the members of the Society of Saint
Pius X. The order harkens to a Catholic pre-1964, emphasizing the
traditional Roman rite where all the bodies are said in Latin.
I attended the old Tridentine Mass, and it is absolutely beautiful and
sensual, stopping nose with incense, your ears with melodic Latin hymns,
and your eyes with simple elegance. Needless to say, the men working in
that order are traditionalists and conservative in outlook. They are also
quite young, the average age being 37.
Conclusion

The Catholic Church is one of the few powerful institutions in our modern
world, representing Western values ​​and against degeneration. He needs
male leadership for it to remain the rock upon which Jesus and St. Peter
founded. Consider joining the priestly prayer, and the improvement of the
Church from within.
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