"Toxic" Mistakes about Vocations - Vocations Series #4 with Fr. McFarland

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  • Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024

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  • @selina8746
    @selina8746 Год назад +24

    Thank you so much for this! I am 22 years old and leaving for the Noviciate in January after a two year delay given by the Superiors. Hearing this was like hearing the voice of Christ. You helped me to reground myself after numerous doubts and temptations these past couple months. Deo gratias! Thank you!

  • @CatholicBearAK
    @CatholicBearAK 2 месяца назад

    Such great and sound advice! The diocesan vocation director was very much feeding into the opposite of Fr. McFarland is saying and what Father is says makes so much sense now!

  • @blancobourne6243
    @blancobourne6243 Год назад +15

    Good talk and points from Father. I have to say on the point of worldly experience, I’ve seen SSPX priests (who had become priests young) struggle to adapt to more modern/worldly issues in myself and others I knew. I do think having some sort of knowledge of the outside world is very important and many kids raised in very sheltered environments that become priests struggle when trying to navigate such foreign issues

    • @fabriciopinedaguilloux371
      @fabriciopinedaguilloux371 Год назад

      This is where flexible actitud can change the perception. God provides the tools to adapt to a challenging world. That's where faith comes into friction to prove that is possible and be a good servant to a toxic modern church. In my case it has burned me out to join SSPX....to the point that at 51 years old I have vocation to Priesthood only to realise is been more my surroundings...I don't doubt I had it but I think is late for me already. Happy to be with a true Church. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Amen

  • @Laura-dy1vc
    @Laura-dy1vc Год назад +17

    Very well said. Strong, solid, and logical arguments. Excellent.

  • @ryanscottlogan8459
    @ryanscottlogan8459 Год назад +1

    I hope the day comes when the SSPX will revive some other wonderful Catholic Congregations like the Sisters of Charity of NY and SSND nuns.❤️

  • @ElCiervoVulnerado1
    @ElCiervoVulnerado1 Год назад +6

    I just think of all those poor guys I know who became Legionary priests because Fr. Maciel told them they had a vocation and am thankful to God that I was freed from the manipulation of my superiors telling me that I had a vocation. Thank you for this series. I will inculcate this mentality to my own children. God bless!

    • @MargaretNolan-c1t
      @MargaretNolan-c1t Год назад

      I suggest you find new friends. They were duped by an obvious fraud, who raped any body available, including his own daughter. It boggles my mind that perverts (who unmask themselves fairly quickly) are not obvious to so many gullible people. Pray the ROSARY DAILY as the Holy Virgin requests in every APPROVED apparition. Ask for Her protection, for discernment and prudence. Become consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart; you cannot go wrong if you FOLLOW the Holy Mother of God.

  • @barbaraaspengen9810
    @barbaraaspengen9810 Год назад +3

    Father you speak the TRUTH God will show you the way the TRUTH and the light.

  • @ucheebirim545
    @ucheebirim545 Год назад

    God bless you Father

  • @michaelnovak9766
    @michaelnovak9766 Год назад

    Great to hear a young well grounded Priest premote the religious life.
    So many, mislead religious & lay people today .....over complicate the religious life , putting the empathsis, to much on self & the natural level, drive many away..

  • @peterdalyy3542
    @peterdalyy3542 Год назад +3

    How wonderful it is to see such a holy young man God bless you .and God bless your channel.

  • @Titadj
    @Titadj Год назад +8

    Louis and Zelie Martin, Father :). Thank you for these talks. I wish I had received such sound and prudent advice 22 years ago when I was discerning a vocation to religious life. Still helpful. God bless you!

  • @marianacasanuevaguiscafre1956
    @marianacasanuevaguiscafre1956 Год назад

    "Look at Jesus Christ" what a logical and beautiful episode. Thank You!

  • @katmorales9447
    @katmorales9447 Год назад +5

    I have been discerning for some time and I have a strong sense I am being called to religious life. However, many obstacles are in the way. Currently, my dad has a big chance of being deported to Mexico. His case is very difficult and I am worried about my family. How would my mother pay for rent, etc? So many things come to my mind. I was going to visit another order this month coming and to a retreat but idk what to do in the moment. Is a very difficult and emotional moment. Plz pray for me.

    • @katmorales9447
      @katmorales9447 Год назад

      Also, I don't understand why concentrated life is a higher calling? Aren't they all beautiful and special?

    • @dasan9178
      @dasan9178 Год назад

      There are always more graces in doing what God wants and then trusting AND PRAYING FERVENTLY for Jesus and Our Lady to take care of the rest. I know this from repeated experience. It comes down to how much you love and trust God. We are called to love and trust Him more than parents, siblings, spouses, children, friends, possessions, habits, feelings, etc. Jesus gave all for us holding nothing back, not even His own Mother, yet we hesitate to give our all back to Him. If you feel called, the complications an opportunity to grow in Faith.

    • @dasan9178
      @dasan9178 Год назад

      @@katmorales9447 Not “concentrated”…CONSECRATED, one who has taken holy orders (bound him or herself to Jesus and His Church and religious life through holy vows). A life spent in prayer, penance and good works on behalf of others in imitation of Our Lord and Lady is specially blessed…and so are the earthly mothers of all such children who sincerely pursue a religious vocation.

  • @georgedavis2554
    @georgedavis2554 Год назад

    The best Service is being in the service of God. All are called but few are chosen.
    But also chose the best through good discernment.

  • @lucyfahrbach309
    @lucyfahrbach309 Год назад +10

    Loved hearing this wonderful series. Thank you so much.

  • @TF80s
    @TF80s Год назад +1

    This is a breadth of fresh air..

  • @christopherbates1428
    @christopherbates1428 Год назад +5

    Thanks so much for this incredible series!! I have always felt drawn to the Catholic priesthood. Alas, I have only known rejection in the N.O. I am 47 years old and still can’t shake the feeling I have a vocation to the priesthood. Is there anyway forward for someone like me? Thank you and God bless!! Please pray for me!!

  • @TheBestGman04
    @TheBestGman04 Год назад +3

    About the topic of 20:53, the author of The Imitation of Christ writes the following:
    "A certain man being in anxiety of mind, continually tossed about between hope and fear, and being on a certain day overwhelmed with grief, cast himself down in prayer before the altar in a church, and meditated within himself, saying, “Oh! if I but knew that I should still persevere,” and presently heard within him a voice from God, “And if thou didst know it, what wouldst thou do? Do now what thou wouldst do then, and thou shalt be very secure.” And straightway being comforted and strengthened, he committed himself to the will of God and the perturbation of spirit ceased, neither had he a mind any more to search curiously to know what should befall him hereafter, but studied rather to inquire what was the good and acceptable will of God, for the beginning and perfecting of every good work". (I, 25, 2)

  • @TS-ex4ql
    @TS-ex4ql Год назад +3

    I cannot thank you enough for this episode.
    Almost all of the concrete examples brought fourth in this episode have come up before both in mind and concretely.
    All examples and answers to common objections were presented and answered so well.
    Deo Gratias!

  • @marccrotty8447
    @marccrotty8447 Год назад +1

    Father provides sound and practical direction.

  • @happy777abc
    @happy777abc Год назад

    Finally, some common sense!

  • @elizabethsheplermusic
    @elizabethsheplermusic Год назад +2

    Awesome episode!! So straightforward!! The final part on Naturalism was so powerful regardless you state of life.

  • @janetplonka8110
    @janetplonka8110 Год назад +2

    Thank you Fr. This was an incredible learning lesson all around God bless you

  • @gogetthegoose1
    @gogetthegoose1 Год назад +6

    I'm 44 yrs old. I attended seminary in 2007. I left after 1 semester.
    I've done alot in life since then but I still seem to be searching for something fulfilling. Any spiritual advice?
    Thank you

    • @Deperuse
      @Deperuse Год назад +2

      Go talk to an Sspx priest in person and don’t be afraid. Knock.

    • @user-ht9fr6eh9u
      @user-ht9fr6eh9u Год назад

      Was it novus ordo seminary?

  • @tracycameron5099
    @tracycameron5099 Год назад +1

    Excellent as usual!

  • @teresaoftheandes6279
    @teresaoftheandes6279 Год назад

    This is such a great talk. Thank you!

  • @bluecat5929
    @bluecat5929 Год назад +2

    thank you

  • @alejandravelezmorales3991
    @alejandravelezmorales3991 Год назад

    Thank you and God bless you!

  • @maria-1978olv
    @maria-1978olv Год назад

    This is the best, most helpful explanation on mental prayer I have ever heard!

  • @nicock.22
    @nicock.22 Год назад

    excellent

  • @barbaraaspengen9810
    @barbaraaspengen9810 Год назад

    Father that is so true about our lives choosing GOD is what Jesus wants because we our made in his own image and likeness. Free Will it's up to us to Love Jesus or not to.

  • @clancys_creed3037
    @clancys_creed3037 Год назад +3

    “You cant even clean your own room you think you can be a priest” LOL my mom does the same thing but with marriage as the topic of ridicule

    • @MargaretNolan-c1t
      @MargaretNolan-c1t Год назад +2

      Listen to your mother and CLEAN YOUR ROOM. Pray the Rosary DAILY and ask for discernment, become consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, avoid sin and ask for the intercession of MANLY saints.

  • @VictoriaLepantoFatima
    @VictoriaLepantoFatima Год назад +1

    What about Consecrated Virginity ? Lay vocations. Any guidance from a Priest. Thank you.

  • @paisley293
    @paisley293 Год назад +8

    St. Alphonsus de Liguori in his book 'The Great Means of Salvation and of Perfection' states, "The Divine call to a more perfect life is undoubtedly a special grace. and a very great one, which God does not give to all; hence He has much reason to be indignant against those who despise it."
    And also: "Whenever God calls to a more perfect state, he who does not wish to expose his eternal salvation to great danger must then obey, and obey promptly. Otherwise he will hear from Jesus Christ the reproach he made to that young man who, when invited to follow Him, said, "I will follow Thee, Lord, but let me first take my leave of them that are at my house.' And Jesus replied to him that he was not fit for Paradise: "No man putting his hand to the plough and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."

    • @SSPX
      @SSPX  Год назад +24

      St. Alphonsus does say these things, but in doing so, he is in disagreement with the Fathers of the Church.
      That the evangelical counsels are open to all:
      St. Basil: "It is the privilege of everyone to embrace the evangelical mode of life."
      St. Gregory Nazaianzen: "All men take not this word but them to whom it is given. When it is said to whom it is given, you must add that it is given to those who wish it and approve of it."
      St. John Chrysostom: "It is given to them who freely choose it."
      St. Ambrose: "There are eunuchs who have made themselves such for the kingdom of heaven; while this is not commanded to all, yet all are invited.:
      St. Jerome: "It is given to those who asked it, to those who wished it, to those who strove to obtain it. For everyone that asks, received, he that seeks, finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened."
      That there is no obligation to embrace religious life:
      Firstly, this turns counsel into command, which is contrary to the Church's Tradition and even her terminology.
      St. Basil: "The Lord did not will that the virginity be the object of a command, but that it be the ornament of a soul eager for virtue, achieving of its own free choice that which is superior to a command..."
      St. John Chrysostom represents God as saying, "I do not force, I do not bind. But I will happily crown him who does so, though I will not punish him who does it not."
      St. Cyprian: "The Lord does not command this, but counsels it."
      St. Thomas Aquinas' teaching on the subject follows that of the Fathers and says that one may embrace the counsels based only on the general invitation from Scripture. He nowhere menaces eternal ruin to those who do not pursue it.
      We could continue multiplying quotations. It seems likely that St. Alphonsus is responding to the problem of people entering religion for worldly and ignoble motives. Unfortunately, he departs from the earlier doctors and theologians, whose teaching is very clear. His teaching does not seem to have any proponents before the 16-17th century Jesuit theologian Lessius. In support of his position, St. Alphonsus could only cite the rigorists Habert and Concina. Thus, while recognizing the profound learning, sanctity, and authority of St. Alphonsus, we prefer to follow the teaching of the Fathers and St. Thomas.
      -Fr. McFarland

    • @marios8120
      @marios8120 Год назад +1

      St. Ligouri is the most misused and misquated (interpreted) amongst pearsons who incline spirital devitiations.

    • @jimsember3528
      @jimsember3528 Год назад +1

      @@SSPX Father, thank you for this answer, it is very helpful. Could you shed some light on when and how historically "choice" became "discernment"? Was this a Vatican II aberration?

    • @cayce3921
      @cayce3921 11 месяцев назад

      @@jimsember3528 I would like to know the same thing

  • @furiat5981
    @furiat5981 Год назад

    What's sspx's view on the scourge of the earth - the juice?

  • @luisgerardoluevanosmedina433
    @luisgerardoluevanosmedina433 Год назад +4

    Long Live MARCEL LEFEBVRE. 🙏👍💪🙏

  • @Mari-fe7wu
    @Mari-fe7wu Год назад

    Can a man previously married but with a marriage annulment go to seminary and become a priest?

  • @christopherpavesi7245
    @christopherpavesi7245 Год назад

    Have there been issues uploading these to spotify? I only see the first one posted.

    • @SSPX
      @SSPX  Год назад +6

      Yes, we've had issues with the podcast hosting service for the past month. Hopefully by tomorrow they'll all be back. Thanks for your patience.

  • @gabrielleeliseo6062
    @gabrielleeliseo6062 Год назад +1

    Heyyyy, us East Coast folks resent those comments. xD

  • @AnimaChristisalvame
    @AnimaChristisalvame Год назад +1

    How may I contact this Holy priest?

    • @SSPX
      @SSPX  Год назад

      sure, vocations@sspx.org

  • @user-ht9fr6eh9u
    @user-ht9fr6eh9u Год назад

    Is there an upper age limit to the priesthood SSPX??

    • @JohnSmith-lf4be
      @JohnSmith-lf4be Год назад

      Not really. I know a guy just over 30 in pre seminary.

  • @Mari-fe7wu
    @Mari-fe7wu Год назад

    Which are the canonical impediments?

    • @TheBestGman04
      @TheBestGman04 Год назад

      Check the episode of this series about the vocation to the priesthood: ruclips.net/video/f-bVf_I9wVk/видео.html

  • @barbaraaspengen9810
    @barbaraaspengen9810 Год назад

    It's like telling your self your a bad mom because you're kid wants to be a drug addict. A person has a free will so that is not for you to feel guilty about.

  • @floridaman318
    @floridaman318 Год назад

    There is no "East Coast" accent. What are you Canadian?

  • @lmtt123
    @lmtt123 Год назад

    The flame analogy is an old one. He didn't invent it