Thursday, April 21, 2016

Secular clergy are unattractive to the young? Really?

Fr. Mike Schmitz
Duluth Diocese



I love Fr. Blake , and I may have misread his post, but I wonder if he might be mistaken?

We just don't seem to have that problem in Minnesota...

Bishop Cozzens and the Companions of Christ


The Archdiocese of St. Paul/Minneapolis is blessed with many good candidates for the priesthood as well as many good priests - younger guys and the young at heart.

We also have St. John Vianney College Seminary and St. Paul School of Divinity - filled with young men attracted to Diocesan priesthood.
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  1. Maria Boza12:39 AM

    Location, location, location. The Diocese of Monterey does not have a shortage of seminarians.

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    1. Terry Nelson11:15 AM

      And you have a priest at the Cathedral who is pretty attractive! ;)

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  2. Aloysius Beckett8:35 AM

    Fr. Schmitz - he who has given in to the cult of personality. I am not impressed.

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    1. Terry Nelson11:13 AM

      Not at all. This is what Fr. S has to say about his vocation:

      "MY FAVORITE THING ABOUT BEING A PRIEST IS EVERYTHING CONNECTED TO THE SACRAMENTS.

      I love offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. I love preaching. I love hearing confessions. There is nothing that I know of that can compare with getting to be a part of someone’s Great Story, the story that God is calling His children to live."

      He's a wonderful priest.

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    2. Yaya11:50 AM

      Yes he is! He is uplifting and he inspires. When I listen to what he has to say, I am moved to want to grow in my faith. He is joy filled too. <3

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    3. Aloysius Beckett4:10 PM

      That's what all the "celebrity" priests say. He is one of them. Self centered, pretty, and looking for every opportunity to promote himself. He will fall like the rest.

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  3. Joshua9:09 AM

    Our large-but-not-massive parish has five seminarians and our liturgy would probably make Fr. Blake run in horror. (That's not a judgement on our liturgy--it suits me just fine, though I would drop the Haugen and Hass if it were up to me.)

    I don't get the "they changed the liturgy and look how the pews and seminaries emptied"-crisis-think. Isn't a broad cultural shift the much more likely culprit? England is almost entirely secularized. Going to seminary here is pretty counter-cultural. Imagine what the reaction there must be. I wonder if "I'm going to seminary to become a celibate Catholic priest" gets roughly the same reaction in England that "I'm going to India to live in an ashram" gets in Mississippi.

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    1. Terry Nelson11:17 AM

      You are right about 'crisis think' - you steep yourself in negative-critical thinking that everyone is the enemy and you send people running the other way.

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  4. Nan10:24 AM

    St Paul has 8 for ordination this year. 11 for next year.

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    1. Terry Nelson11:19 AM

      I couldn't find an appropriate photo for them! Also - I was looking for the Deacon from my parish who will be ordained. He's a Companion too - excellent homilist.

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    2. Nan12:24 PM

      Check 10000 vocations, which has individual photos. Group photos may be on seminaryblog.

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  5. Nan10:27 AM

    My spiritual director is in that picture.

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