Every so often I meet people who not only think living a celibate life (remaining single to build up God’s Kingdom) is unnatural, but they almost feel like they have to “save me” from this “terrible” thing I’m walking into by joining the Salesians and studying to be a priest.
Sometimes the conversation goes more or [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Calling’
Throwing Your Life Away, Like Jesus, For Jesus
Posted in Discernment, tagged Calling, Celibacy, Chastity, Church, Discernment, God, God the Father, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Joy, Life, Love, marriage, natural, priesthood, religious life, Salesians, Salesians of Don Bosco, Sex, supernatural, Vocation on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Clairifying the Challenges, Seeking the Truth, and Understanding Vocation
Posted in Discernment, tagged Calling, Discernment, Don Bosco, Eucharist, Jesus, Pope, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI, Prayer, Salesians, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, Vocation on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Don Bosco had a lot of tough times in his life. I was recently reflecting on a time in the late 1840s where most of his older boys who were the leaders of the Oratory as well as many of the younger boys had abandoned him, being drawn away to Protestant youth gatherings because of [...]
Jesus, is that You?
Posted in Discernment, tagged Calling, Jesus, Know, Signs of a Vocation, Vocation on April 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How do you know if Jesus is calling you to a religious vocation? Could it be that He just dialed the wrong number? If you can relate to some of these then you may just have a call to check out a religious vocation… thanks to the author Fr. Willie Doyle, SJ and Joe’s blog [...]
Being Stubborn…Like a Donkey…For the Lord!
Posted in Salesians, tagged Calling, Don Bosco, God, Jesus, Lord, Love, Oratory, Prayer, Stubborn, Vision, Youth on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
You know you’re stubborn when even your friends call you stubborn. Don Bosco was that stubborn and thank God he was!
One event that I have been reflecting on recently is an event that took place in the late 1840s. Some of the other priests who ran similar Oratories (Youth Centers) wanted to merge with Don [...]
